Imagination out of the ordinary
Silly or not, I’m glad that someone else like to share my pics. Sometimes (on Instagram) I add the hashtag #Shootoff and some of those pics get shared. These are the latest nine pics that got shared by Shootoff. And my normal 20-40 likes/pic add upp to a little more. Nice.
Can you guess which of these nine that got the highest acclaim?
Yup, thats the one. “Thru it all”, botton middle…
To a street photographer of today, one thing stand out – the smartphone. Wherever I look, someone’s looking down into a cell phone.
There’s both pros and cons with this, First, people look down a lot and for me – always looking for eyes an eye contact – it’s boring and frustrating. Second, the blueish light from the screen help light people faces. And most don’t see me right away (I might have the time to take more than 1-2 pics).
Here are three very typical examples, all from Gothenburg:
Maybe I’m a fool, maybe I was just enchanted. But I gave him a five dollar bill – after receiving a CD I still haven’t listened to. But I meet him just as I left the parking and came onto Millennium Park in Chicago. Magical day, it was. And maybe worth that bill?
Six weeks ago I was in Stockholm, where there were many opportunities for street photography. Here three ladies that I met during “Photowalk Stockholm”.
At a shopping mall in Gothenburg, where a see thru-window helps when you aspire for height…
Sometimes I just browse older pics for fun, today more so to look for one to use for the new version of my Street photography course. Found this one, taken at Brick Lane, London, in April a year ago. I like the plain colors and the simple elements. So there you have it.
A couple of months ago I attended an event in the small town I grew up in. Main bill was a free concert, that attracted lots of young people – mainly women and girls. I most of the time do black and whites, but this evening had a colorful glow to it.
Do work quite often in the full square format, via Instagram. As I’ve shown before, magic appears as you crop to use the composition trick with Dominant eye. Here some of the pics from my account @gunnarfnovik.
Some time ago (April 30th) I published a first version om my street portraits of this man. Cocky, self esteemed and so far.
But the last of my five pic series might come closer to the truth?
Sometimes street photo walking is fun and rewarding, as this Saturday in May in Gothenburg. Spoke to quite a few people, including mum and dad to this little toddler. Eight months old, said the proud mother and served a little more to drink.
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