A couple from the OM-D today...

[Omaroo]

Not feeling altogether better after the flu last week, I went in to town to keep an appointment with a new fiend of mine who is also a Leica shooter who's just bought an Olympus OM-D. He'd not used it in anger yet, so this day gave him a great intro to it. Here are a few with mine - and Olympus M.Zuiko 75mm f/1.8 which is a really superb lens. That's Dave in photo #7. A clown :)

Thanks for looking :P

PS - this is what we refer to as "street photography"

[sheeny]

Nice work!

Al.

[RB]

Very nice all-round but I really love #6 Chris !

:thumbsup:

[Omaroo]

Thanks Al :)

Thanks too Andrew :) I call him "Sir Les"... :lol:

[RB]

My thoughts exactly.

:lol:

[Omaroo]

I reckon that its either a doughnut or pastie that slipped down his left lapel... I'm undecided.

[theodog]

Nice images Chris.

I look at them and think I've seen things like that, why can't I get images of them like that. Well done.

Sometimes I am a little worried about imaging people without their permission and then publishing them. "Street" photographers don't seem to be.

Lets not take the "P" out of inoccent people in our images.

Again -overall great images.:thumbsup:

[Omaroo]

Cheers Jeff.

Thanks for the comments :) I can see why many people dislike the concept of street photography. I view it in both journalistic and artistic senses. It is a record of real people in real places. They are not made out to be anything they're not. Their dignity is held in high regard and never portrayed as hopeless. People are interesting. I used to think that anything but people were interesting, but I've changed over the years. In the right light and circumstance they can tell you a life's story in a single image. That's what I try to see.

Those that see me photographing them get a wave, a warm smile and a "thank you". Nearly all smile back. Those that don't, or frown, I won't publish.

[rcheshire]

Excellent Chris. Are you shooting B&W in camera, jpeg or RAW and desaturating?

[theodog]

Cheers Chris. I understand. This adds to the value of the images.;)

[Omaroo]

Thanks Rowland :)

I shoot RAW, and don't use any in-built art filters as a rule - preferring to collect and hold as much data as I can. You can stretch a good RAW a long way - you can't do that to a JPEG. I import into Aperture and use the wonderful Silver Efex Pro 2 plugin from Nix Software. I love it. To introduce grain to an image, it uses very-high resolution scanned images of real film grain as an overlay, rather than trying to emulate it. Thansk for the kind comments!

[DavidU]

I like 'em. Nice work Chris.:thumbsup:

[Omaroo]

Thanks David :) :thumbsup:

[Deeno]

Very cool......
As usual

[Omaroo]

Thanks Deeno :) Still interested in a shoot some time?

[Deeno]

For sure....
Would love to see you in action!

Very interesting to read how you process your images.....