B&W Sunday Market

I am in love with both of these shots! Agree with Rog that the second one just popped off the page! I love this guy! And the shot of the two women is so intriguing....wonderful composition... what are they getting ready for, where are they going?

I am loving Ibiza.
 
RoseCat said:
I am in love with both of these shots! Agree with Rog that the second one just popped off the page! I love this guy! And the shot of the two women is so intriguing....wonderful composition... what are they getting ready for, where are they going?

I am loving Ibiza.
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We've quite some characters on the island - so much so, that this is very much the norm (guy on the moped), especially at the San Juan Market @RoseCat :lol:

Indeed, even the woman with the face er... make-up / design.

Although the woman behind her... that had me lost. I couldn't stay around for too long without being spotted, so missed the full story myself. No idea what she was trying on / testing but LOVED the expression.

I was a little concerned re the 1st image - 9/10 times I try to be kind with my images - not here to make a fool out of anyone - but the expression was just too good to pass up on! Naughty kitty-Cat ;)

xxXxx
 
iCatMilton said:
So, I have a Samsung S4.
Generally, I am not a fan.
However I forced myself to take it out today to do some street photography at the local Sunday market earlier today...

Samsung S4 (native cam) - Snapseed - Pixlr Express (to resize for Mobitog)
- then imported onto PC, purely as my data package has run out on the island, oops!
For complete transparency no editing took place on PC.

Can I just say a huge thanks btw. I *love* street photography but always feel SO rude photographing strangers that I usually hide the images away - it's really nice to have somewhere to share them!

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I love your images, Cat - not just these three! On these three I'm with Chris - if I had to pick, it'd be #2 - if only bcs you managed to get Bono in the background!
(And how do you get yr camera so close to people without being punched in the eye?)
 
iCatMilton said:
So, I have a Samsung S4.
Generally, I am not a fan.
However I forced myself to take it out today to do some street photography at the local Sunday market earlier today...

Samsung S4 (native cam) - Snapseed - Pixlr Express (to resize for Mobitog)
- then imported onto PC, purely as my data package has run out on the island, oops!
For complete transparency no editing took place on PC.

Can I just say a huge thanks btw. I *love* street photography but always feel SO rude photographing strangers that I usually hide the images away - it's really nice to have somewhere to share them!

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Hi Cat

These are great, any chance of sharing your processes?
 
zenjenny said:
I love your images, Cat - not just these three! On these three I'm with Chris - if I had to pick, it'd be #2 - if only bcs you managed to get Bono in the background!
(And how do you get yr camera so close to people without being punched in the eye?)
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Hahaha, I worry about getting thumped one, frequently!

9/10 times it's a case of quite massive cropping (from 4000+px on the Samsung, often down to around 1000px...)

I tend to look at my phone like I'm trying to figure something out and then darn it, the "light's too bright" (ahem) so I lift it, change angle and I've the volume button on the Samsung programmed as the shutter so I only ever have one hand on the phone - no tapping it like I'm taking an image.

I've only been doing this for a couple of weeks but learnt fast to get to know what was going to be in the frame and what wasn't - cropping and straightening in Snapseed then become my 1st two steps in the editing process!

xxXxx
 
Chris the Blue said:
Hi Cat

These are great, any chance of sharing your processes?
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Hi Chris,

Sure, with pleasure.

I went and looked over the images and grinned, as when I put up the first 3, I didn't even have After Focus Pro on the phone. Ha, such a newbie to Samsung!

Edit process

Snapseed

- Straighten

- Crop to Square format.

- Check it in Black and White - often don't like it at this point - but I do hang around and play with the contrast for a moment - gives me an idea later of what I can try and pull out of the image.

- Details / Structure.

- NB - at this point there's usually quite a bit of to'ing and fro'ing between Tune Image and Details / Structure as I try to find the right balance tinkering around with Ambience and Shadows. I can't offer any settings ideas on this as it so often depends on how much light I had in the original image... I can say that I like to start Ambience around 50 and Shadows around 20 and I get wary going over that because a heavily cropped image can look grainy / messy very quickly.

- now into Black and White - if I use the Contrast filter (I always seem draw to it as the prefered default start point), I usually move it down to about 15 on Contrast - the default 30 is 90% of the time way too much for me.

- Centre Focus - usually Portrait One but again, I halve the 'Inner Brightness' setting 9/10 times - with the aim of (mostly) discreetly hi-lighting the story / where I want the eye to settle.

- Save

Pixlr Express.

- 9/10 times and I think in the case of all the images on this thread where Pixlr Express has been used, I've only used

- Borders - Ink folder and then partial to the 'Black--' range, often turned down to about 50% and rotated if the grungy look gets in the way of the subject.

- Text to add a watermark, if posting to Facebook etc


xxXxx
 
iCatMilton said:
Hi Chris,

Sure, with pleasure.

I went and looked over the images and grinned, as when I put up the first 3, I didn't even have After Focus Pro on the phone. Ha, such a newbie to Samsung!

Edit process

Snapseed

- Straighten

- Crop to Square format.

- Check it in Black and White - often don't like it at this point - but I do hang around and play with the contrast for a moment - gives me an idea later of what I can try and pull out of the image.

- Details / Structure.

- NB - at this point there's usually quite a bit of to'ing and fro'ing between Tune Image and Details / Structure as I try to find the right balance tinkering around with Ambience and Shadows. I can't offer any settings ideas on this as it so often depends on how much light I had in the original image... I can say that I like to start Ambience around 50 and Shadows around 20 and I get wary going over that because a heavily cropped image can look grainy / messy very quickly.

- now into Black and White - if I use the Contrast filter (I always seem draw to it as the prefered default start point), I usually move it down to about 15 on Contrast - the default 30 is 90% of the time way too much for me.

- Centre Focus - usually Portrait One but again, I halve the 'Inner Brightness' setting 9/10 times - with the aim of (mostly) discreetly hi-lighting the story / where I want the eye to settle.

- Save

Pixlr Express.

- 9/10 times and I think in the case of all the images on this thread where Pixlr Express has been used, I've only used

- Borders - Ink folder and then partial to the 'Black--' range, often turned down to about 50% and rotated if the grungy look gets in the way of the subject.

- Text to add a watermark, if posting to Facebook etc


xxXxx
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Thank you for going into so much detail Cat, I've not played with Pixlr Express much, I'll invest some time into it.

I maybe getting a Samsung S4 for work soon, boss wanted me to have an iphone 5 but because I have mine I thought I'd go for something else. Not sure he liked my reason though.

Chris
 
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Just for fun today I set myself an hour to get some shots of the men in our community..
It was fun!
I think we've a bunch of good looking guys in our community :)

Samsung S4 - Snapseed - magic hour - pic er, forgotten /some collage app and Pixlr Express for water mark
 
Cat, very nice images. All the images share the same colour set.
 
iCatMilton said:
Just for fun today I set myself an hour to get some shots of the men in our community..
It was fun!
I think we've a bunch of good looking guys in our community :)

Samsung S4 - Snapseed - magic hour - pic er, forgotten /some collage app and Pixlr Express for water mark
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These are amazing Cat, love the detail and the style of the series... :thumbs:

It must be time for the gals of the commune next then... :rog:
 
iCatMilton said:
Market's only on a Sunday, lovely.

Please breathe as I need to make sure I can get there next week.
Wouldn't want you expiring before checking my images and seeing if I'm maintaining standards :p
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:lmao:

Only bated Cat, not stopped altogether... :barf:

Reckon I might make it to next weekend... :D
 
These are fabulous. Really great and inspiring as a street photographer. I totally know what you mean about the Android-- I've been Android for most of the time I've owned smartphones and your experience has also been mine. Got an iPhone 5s and wowza, what a difference. Maybe we could chat on here some more, share tips? I don't know how you got so close in-- I just don't have the nerve. The edits are fantastic and really make the photos-- excellent tones. I love them all. I am new here and street, for the most part, is my thing. Awesome, awesome images.
 
Tiffany said:
These are fabulous. Really great and inspiring as a street photographer. I totally know what you mean about the Android-- I've been Android for most of the time I've owned smartphones and your experience has also been mine. Got an iPhone 5s and wowza, what a difference. Maybe we could chat on here some more, share tips? I don't know how you got so close in-- I just don't have the nerve. The edits are fantastic and really make the photos-- excellent tones. I love them all. I am new here and street, for the most part, is my thing. Awesome, awesome images.
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Hi Tiffany
My apologies for the delay in response. Busy couple of weeks!

Very happy to share all tips and edits - it's how I learnt, mixes with experimenting and a few nerve wracking hours out :)

xxXxx
 
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