Whisper

GXR P10, f4.5, 1/40, ISO 400, RAW, 200mm

What's Hiding in the Corner?

GF1, f2.8, 1/100, ISO 1600, JPG b&w, 40mm

Street Photography Workshop

Today, was the day for my street photography workshop at Foto Koch in Düsseldorf. It was a great opportunity and something I have been looking forward to.

It was a small group of 7 people so made the workshop pretty relaxed. We went over a short presentation I prepared, then had a chat about street photography before we looked over a few of my pictures.
Before breaking for lunch, I set an assignment to go out and take pictures. The day was perfect for street photography with not just the weather being great with lots of people out in the Altstadt but also with the Japanese Days festival taking place. The fastival was great and I was really surprised to see how many people dressed up and were having a great time.
After lunch everyone submitted two of their best pictures so we could discuss them in the group. This was very interesting to hear everybody's comments to the pictures.

The day was great fun but went over too fast so I hope to do this workshop again in the future.

Reflection

GF1, f7.1,1/640, ISO 100, JPG, 40mm

Choose Your Destiny

GRD, f2.4, 1/40, ISO 400, JPG b&w

Hand and Feet

GRD, f6.3, 1/500, ISO 400, JPG b&w

Exit

GXR S10, f3.5, 1/1000, ISO 100, RAW, 50mm

Hand Carwash

GRD III, f6.3, 1/410, ISO 64, JPG

Watergames

GRD III, f6.1, 1/1070, ISO 100, JPG

Together

GRD III, f6.3, 1/330, ISO 100, JPG

Today, a reminder for my street photography workshop in Düsseldorf next Saturday. I hope the weather will be good but the Japan Festival will be on in Düsseldorf so there should be plenty of opportunities to do some street photography.
I have also uploaded a gallery with some of my best street photography here.

With a Little Help from my Friend

GXR A12, f6.3, 1/1070, ISO 200, RAW

Old and New

GRD III, f5.0, 1/1500, ISO 200, RAW

Nobody Here

GRD III, f1.9, 1/75, ISO 400, RAW

When I arrived at Frankfurt Airport there was nobody around. Only after walking for a bit I saw this guy sleeping and found the scene very interesting.

Venus

GRD III, f5.0, 1/1520, ISO 400, RAW

Cowboy

RD1s, f0.0, 1/5, ISO 1600, RAW - Taken 12/11/2009

I was not very inspired today. I took a few pictures but deleted all of them, there was nothing I really liked or wanted to keep.
Instead I went through some of my pictures to find some pictures to use as examples for my upcoming workshop. I came across this picture that I really liked when I took it and although it is not perfectly in focus or very sharp, I wanted to process it a bit and see what I can get out of it. It also remind me of a picture from Robert Frank's "The Americans" book which I had a look at recently.

Raindrops

What do you do if you are out with a non-macro lens but still want to take a closeup of a raindrop?
Well, you could use the compact camera you have along to get a macro shot or simply use the lens for what it's designed to and skip the macro shot. Since I like to improvise, I wondered how to make a macro lens out of a non-macro lens.
I figured if the lens in it's current state can't get closer than 30cm it might work better the other way around. I removed the lens and held it in front of the camera to get a much better macro range. This works very well but can be dangerous outside if you are not careful. The quality is also not as good as with a dedicated macro lens and slightly soft. Still, I like the result I got and you can see it below.

Byron

GF1, f7.1, 1/3200, ISO 320, JPG b&w, 40mm

What's the Number?

GF1, f5.6, 1/400, ISO 320, RAW, 56mm (Leica f2.8 28mm R)

Art

GF1, f2.8, 1/2500, ISO 125, JPG, 56mm (Leica f2.8 28mm R)

Dawn of the Business People

GF1, f8, 1/800, ISO 250, RAW, 56mm (Leica f2.8 28mm R)

When I saw this scene on my way to work and even after reviewing it on the camera it reminds me of a Zombie movie.