2019 Week 20 B&W street photography

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Your Challenge if you choose to accept it is to produce a B&W street photograph

This is a fabulous example by Vivian Maier the Secret Photographer


Like many of the great Artists Vivian was not really discovered until after her death. Below is a link to her life & work

https://www.bjp-online.com/2018/11/vivian-maier-secret-photographer/

Previously posted  by Steve Troletti : B&W – STREET

2016 PHOTOCHALLENGE, WEEK 13: B&W – STREET

Definition of Street Photography

Street photography is a beautiful, spontaneous art form that can tell a story.

How you can achieve B&W Street Photography

Provided your camera, phone or whatever you use to take your images allows B&W in your device of choice, then feel free to shoot B&W on location. However if you like post production or fancy having a dabble then go for it. Post processing is just as important as capturing the image and shouldn’t be looked down upon as a lesser art form.

B&W with coloured filters by Jeanie Sumrall-Ajero, link below

WEEK 36: B&W with Colored “Filters”
https://petapixel.com/2018/09/27/10-rules-you-should-break-in-street-photography/

Despite having this challenge on the back burner. I should like to mention that When Eric asked for group ideas, Willeke Van Bloois suggested this idea. Thank you for this suggestion Willeke Van Bloois.

As always remember to have fun, be creative and out of the box interpretations are encouraged

The friendly community guidelines are pretty simple:

  • Take a new photo for the current weekly theme, not something from your back catalog or someone else’s image.
  • Post your photo each week to our active communities on Facebook or Flickr (or both). Tag the photo:  #2019photochallenge #photochallenge #tempusaura
  • Don’t leave home without your camera. Participating in the 2019 Trevor Carpenter Photo Challenge is fun and easy.
  • Post your photo during the week of Sunday 12th May and Saturday 18th May.
  • Please remember to comment on at least FIVE photo submissions this week by answering the question “why?” in your comments. In other words, “why do I like (or not like) this photo? or “why did this photo catch my eye?”


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About Peter Randall

As a youngster I was fascinated by camera’s. At about the age of 10 years I was bought a Ilford film camera which I proceeded to capture images as and when film was available, not very often because it was expensive at the time. While at school in the early seventies I was studying Art with a view to going to University. I abandoned my plans for an opportunity in press photography, however the business was struggling within a couple of years and I was made redundant after three years. This gave me some basic ground work after which I continued with photography as a hobby photographing family & friends. Between 1980 to 1985 I had my own darkroom processing both colour & B&W film. Printing my own photographs. I liked Kodak products for colour and Ilford for B&W. I often though about joining a photographic club but family life was busy, never did get round to it. I especially liked photographing my family as they grew up. When we had our second son in 1986. I bought a Canon (camcorder) and developed a liking for amateur video work. At the time I had a Commodore Amiga computer, which at that time had the best graphics so I indulged in Video editing adding titles and cross over fades. During the 1990’s I started building my own computers and this developed into paths crossing with video work. Early digitisation of video. Like many things the early days were painful LOL. I remember video capture cards and hard drives struggling to keep pace with the necessary speed to capture. Setting up the software options in those days was a nightmare because software was definitely not user friendly. Looking back I think I jumped ship from film photography to Digital too early. The early Digital images were not Pretty. But the appeal of the concept was too enchanting. 1996 was the beginning of my Digital Photographic Journey. Despite my initial hiccups with Digital photography, I was definitely sold. Being able to transfer digitised images to your computer. The possibilities of the digital Darkroom and beyond. I joined the PhotoChallenge group in April 2014, and Ive been learning ever since. Joining the group helped me turn the tap back on allowing my creativity to flow again. I found myself anticipating each weekly challenge. I was motivated by discussions, ideas and techniques presented within the group. Constructive Criticism was always very useful because sometimes we can get lost on the journey. However although it’s really good to know the rules it’s so much fun to break them.