I really like to frame my street photos in this format which I call "Exposed Gaze"... I use this to share my photos under a freer concept standard. So I usually select street photos but with very diverse elements. It's easy to perceive that when you look at those photos, because in them there are animals, textures, details, people and some other things...
01-📷 / "Virtually human"
02-📷 / "One of those bad days"
03-📷 / "Riddle on the wall"
04-📷 / "Old FORD"
I suppose these types of photos have multiplied in my portfolio due to the very nature of the streets in my village. I know a couple of street photographers who live in bigger cities and they themselves have told me that it's difficult for them to focus on more specific details in the streets. This, obviously, is due to the specific characteristics of the atmosphere of the streets in a city versus those of a small town like mine. However, some photographers who have experimented in the popular neighbourhoods on the margins of the cities, have told me that they immediately begin to feel the need to focus on smaller events and elements... So, this kind of photos probably have to do with the "physical space" available in the environment.
05-📷 / "María"
06-📷 / "The firefighter"
07-📷 / "Older Corner"
08-📷 / "Dog's bowl corner"
MONOCHROME VERSIONS
I have done something additional with these photos. I've worked with a kind of monochromatic editing based on a "dark sepia" tone, very similar to what my father (who liked to paint) called "tobacco colour"... I have done this as an editing exercise, but also because I liked looking at these photos (especially the one with the dog and the one with the cat) in this kind of monochromatic format. So here below are the same photos and in the same order but turned to this style...
01-📷 / "Virtually human"
02-📷 / "One of those bad days"
03-📷 / "Riddle on the wall"
04-📷 / "Old FORD"
05-📷 / "María"
06-📷 / "The firefighter"
07-📷 / "Older Corner"
08-📷 / "Dog's bowl corner"
ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL NOTE: Photographs captured with my Nikon D7000 DSLR camera in RAW format, then processed in Adobe Camera RAW for adjustments regarding light, sharpening, contrast and depth... The shots are then exported to JGP format on which minor modifications such as straightening and adding watermarks were carried out using PhotoScape 3.6.3.
Thank you very much for your visit and appreciation!
"We make photographs to understand what our lives mean to ourselves." - Ralph Hattersley.
Lens: Sigma 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 II DC OS HSM
Lens: Tokina ATX-PRO 100mm f/2.8 d MACRO
Lens: AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
Lens: AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50 mm f/1.8d FX
Lens:AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G
