The dog does not abandon you, not judge you, but accepts you for who you are!

Urban rain

In every part of the city there is a pedestrian bridge walk, specially if the road is busy and Here in Sydney is situated in King street. In weekdays at on late afternoon busy traffic  in this road is a normality, considering that thousand of people leave their work place in the centre of the city to head home.                                                                                                I’ve often walked on this bridge, once was raining and I’ve noticed how the glasses on the sides getting wet were creating a nice wired effect. One day I was around, was raining and with me I had my camera, and so here I came!

Street beach photography.

At the beginning I was taking photos from different angles on that graffiti, but if wasn’t interesting enough, so I positioned my camera and waited for someone interesting to give shape at the photo.                                                                                                                                                                   That day was a sunny and hot, was waiting there without interesting results even if many people were walking up and down the way. But being at the beach I was waiting exactly for a surfer to give me the result that I wanted.Was almost giving up and just keep the photos that I had taken, when luckily after about half hour a surfer walked through.

View from a hungry bird.

The downside of street photography is deal with people around you when they feel my camera pointed against them.   

In this photo taken in Sydney Circular Quai I couldn’t hide much as to be in the action zone I needed to be close to the object. So the only way was talk to the man!                                             And that is what I did, I talked to him friendly and he has been friendly as well with me agreeing that I could take that photo.                                                                                                                           In that part of the city is always crowded of hungry seagulls, the man was feeding the birds, and I wanted take that action but I thought to get a different point of view, the point of view of seagulls.

4 Pears cubism

How I did it?

The easiest way that I’ve found to get closer as possible as I could to a cubist style photograph is to use just a single tool in Adobe Photoshop.

How? Go on top bar to FILTER, than in STYLIZE you find the tool TITLES and here you can adjust your photo as your preference.

Nutella Pop Art

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From one of mine photo that I’ve created at home for a product task, using just the app ‘Photo Editor’ installed on my mobile phone I’ve got an interesting result of a pop art commercial photo.

My original photo:

I had a dream last night.

How I did it?

For people using a DSLR camera  in manual mode is almost easy to know the technique .   I’ve positioned the camera in front of my couch on a tripod, as the room wasn’t well illuminated the shutter speed was slow,  about 26 seconds measured. Than calculated  the time exposure, sitting on the couch with a cable release I shot the photo keeping my body immovable for 13 seconds on the left side, than with a fast movement I went to the right keeping my body immovable for the remaining 12 seconds.

4 PEARS

From Pictorialism to ‘Straight Photography’.

 

While Pictorialism that was gradually declining with his style of photos soft and blurred, exactly a style completely opposite called ‘straight photography’ with images sharper, clear and high contrast was taking step.
Was around 1920 when ‘Straight photography‘ or pure photography, was moving the vision of photographers in a modern style, it was done simply without manipulation of the photos in printing or in darkroom, just only what the camera could do. Pure photography is defined as possessing no qualities of technique, composition or idea, derivative of any other art forms. The above photo taken by me around Sydney are a representation of pure photography, which for me is a similitude of the street photograpy of today, as well as the photographers were also modernists a century ago as the famous Paul Strand that already around 1915 photographed moments of life in the city of New York.

Pictorialism, the story of an art passed.

Below how would be represented by pictorialists Tamrama beach a century ago.

Below as would normally be.

About a century was waning the art of pictorialism, which attempted to merge painting and photography, a style which created often conflicting ideas and opinions between photographers and painters who would create the best art, where painters often also used photos to enhance their paintings and similarly photographers depicted in the photographs. I took this photo at Tamarama beach in Sydney, modifying it in pictorialism style.
It was not difficult to modify the picture for me as I only used a few digital tools with Lightroom, I just lowered the clarity making the picture more blurry, I added grain and roughness, increased slightly the contrast as well as colour temperature giving a character more yellow and old.
Obviously for me do it digitally took only a few minutes, in the past instead of the development was done in the laboratories in post production requiring much time and accuracy in the use of oils, and various chemical, through different processes to create different effects called: bromoil, carbon print, cynotype, gum bichromate. Nowadays this kind of art is not impressive to me either because are already established differences between art painters and photographers, as photography today often tends to impress with the high quality visual and capture moments that occur at a given instant, and this is due to the speed and high-resolution cameras of today.