Slow shutter - C&C are welcome !!

[Tejal]

Kindly share your C&C for my below image.

Regards,

Tejal

IMG_2057 by Tejal Imagination, on Flickr

[Shadowman]

Very artisitic, I think this would work even better in black and white.

[Tejal]

Very artisitic, I think this would work even better in black and white.

Thanks John. I gave a quick try for B&W but I found it better in color. May be bcoz of lights. Though I will try again and will try to post B&W too.

[Shadowman]

Thanks John. I gave a quick try for B&W but I found it better in color. May be bcoz of lights. Though I will try again and will try to post B&W too.

Hi Tejal,

Try different editing methods, try to emphasize the tones through contrast.

[Tejal]

Hi Tejal,

Try different editing methods, try to emphasize the tones through contrast.

Yeah I will ☺

[Manfred M]

This is an interesting image, Tejal and I suspect you are right, this would not be nearly as strong as a B&W image.

Where this image does not work as well as it might is that the softness we encounter is in a significant foreground element. A sharp foreground and a softer background work quite well, but this is not easy to accomplish in street photography.

[rpcrowe]

I like the image but, the woman at image left commands a lot of my attention. I kind of like a crop this way...

[Tejal]

This is an interesting image, Tejal and I suspect you are right, this would not be nearly as strong as a B&W image.

Where this image does not work as well as it might is that the softness we encounter is in a significant foreground element. A sharp foreground and a softer background work quite well, but this is not easy to accomplish in street photography.

Thanks for your comment n feedback. About keeping sharp foreground n smooth BG- in such kind of pic it might have become an ordinary one of taken that way. -IMO

[Tejal]

I like the image but, the woman at image left commands a lot of my attention. I kind of like a crop this way...

Thanks Richard for your valuable suggestion. ☺

[Manfred M]

Thanks for your comment n feedback. About keeping sharp foreground n smooth BG- in such kind of pic it might have become an ordinary one of taken that way. -IMO

I wouldn'd say "ordinary", but I would say very difficult to do in a street scene. You need the cooperation of the subject, who must stand extremely still and not move, while the background does move, in other words, the scene must be posed.

The other approach is to use a flash with a slow shutter speed. The flash freezes the subject in the foreground while the background moves on. The difficulty here is light drop off and again, this type of technique works well in a studio where you can light the background independently from your subject. In street photography, this is not likely to happen.

The third scenario has the photographer panning the subject as they move, whereas the background blurs. This needs a lot of practice to pull off and a lot of the shots will end up in the trash bin.

[proseak]

Very artisitic, I think this would work even better in black and white.

I had the idea of doing it as 2 colour types - the woman in front in colour, the other two and the background in sepia. The idea is to give a "then and now" look.

[Tejal]

I wouldn'd say "ordinary", but I would say very difficult to do in a street scene. You need the cooperation of the subject, who must stand extremely still and not move, while the background does move, in other words, the scene must be posed.

The other approach is to use a flash with a slow shutter speed. The flash freezes the subject in the foreground while the background moves on. The difficulty here is light drop off and again, this type of technique works well in a studio where you can light the background independently from your subject. In street photography, this is not likely to happen.

The third scenario has the photographer panning the subject as they move, whereas the background blurs. This needs a lot of practice to pull off and a lot of the shots will end up in the trash bin.

Thanks a lot for providing this detail. With flash I have seen some streets shots n were wondrful. Don't know how they managed to do. I am very much interested in learning this.

Panning yes, I think that's the easiest way to get blurrrd /moving bg but the most difficult to capture. I have tried that recently (not at night but though) but it's very very difficult. ☺

[Tejal]

I had the idea of doing it as 2 colour types - the woman in front in colour, the other two and the background in sepia. The idea is to give a "then and now" look.

Thank you Peter for your suggestion. Street photography doesnt allow selective color processing.

[madcrow]

You are after getting a lot of good advice, for me I like the image.

[Tejal]

You are after getting a lot of good advice, for me I like the image.

Thank you. ☺☺☺

[proseak]

"Street photography doesnt allow selective color processing."

Why?

[Tejal]

"Street photography doesnt allow selective color processing."

Why?

In street n reportage the photographer is showcasing some ordinary scene in an extra ordinary way and have to showcase the reality. We can't change the colors, we can't do editing. Heavy processing is also not acceptable.