Brisbane Street Photographs - Part 2

[TonyW]

These are the result of another street session with a group of photographers.


1. I followed this elderly couple for a while. He looked to be well into his nineties. I chatted to them briefly at one stage.

1. 056A9023 by tonyw36, on Flickr

2. They had just come out of the local St Vinnies (a charity shop) with their new angel.

056A9009(2) by tonyw36, on Flickr

3. In the Queensland Art Gallery

7. 056A9046 by tonyw36, on Flickr


4. At the West End street markets.

3. 056A8960 by tonyw36, on Flickr

[Shadowman]

Nice subjects. I'm seeing a bit of purple color on the woman's face in the first image, not sure if it's from your processing or the wall, perhaps it's the effect of the very warm colors in the background. In the second image, the tones are a bit flat, lacking in any color intensity. Nicely done on the third and fourth.

[Kodiak]

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Tony, your #1 is great… would be perfect without the lamp post.
My favourite is #3. Not because of the man there but all the rest is awesome!
A darn cool shot!

[bnnrcn]

Nice series, my favs are #1 and #3

[Rebel]

Shot number 1 is my fav, they look like really interesting characters!

[rpcrowe]

I like these images a lot. I am especially fond of #1.

However, there was something that bothered me about the image. I decided that it was the dark rectangular shape apparently protruding from image left of the utility pole. I realize that it might have been part of the mural but it really distracted me from the subjects. I was trying to figure out what it was rather than concentrating on these two very interesting characters. I simply selected the rectangular shape and did a content aware fill (with Photoshop CS6). This replaced the dark shape quite (and surprisingly) well.

I tried to do the same thing with the entire pole, thinking that it sort of cuts the image into three rectangular areas but, content aware fill was not successful.

I also really like the lines in image #4...

[wmoore]

You have a good eye for street photography. keep it up.

[TonyW]

Thanks to all for the comments. They are most useful.

My own preferences are #3, #1, #2, #4.

John, the purple in the woman's face in #1 seems to be just a reflection of the colour of the wall. Except for #2, the colour balance in all is "as shot" in ACR and no adjustment has been made except for a slight tweak of the clarity slider. The third one was difficult to process but only for the perspective and lens distortion. Because of the tall structures, the vertical lines of the sculptures needed to be exactly vertical.

I thought #2 showed a wonderful moment but unfortunately I messed up the camera settings for this shot and did not get enough depth of field. If the angel had been in focus, it would have been so much better. This is perhaps a better version where I have not played around with the colours.

[Kodiak]

This is perhaps a better version where I have not played around with the colours.

That's more like it!

[Mike Buckley]

My own preferences are #3...

Mine also!

[IzzieK]

'vote goes to #3 as well...