Urban photography - Looking for the unseen
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- On a lovely walk around Liverpool I start thinking that a plan would come in handy and maybe a limited number of subject types. I also realise that seeing things that go unnoticed by most people can result in some very interesting photographs.
Equipment Used
Panasonic GX9
Olympus 17mm f/2.8, Panasonmic 42.5mm f/1.7, Panasonic 12-32 f/3.5-5.6, Panasonic 35-100 f/4-5.6
Diana Mini with XP2 Super
Preview App
Mark II Artists Viewfinder (iOS only on the App Store)
Vlogging Equipment
GoPro Hero 7
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Contact Details
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Love the MC Escher stairwell effect.
Love the stairwells and derelict buildings!
Thanks Aram.
really like how you find the shoots great photos
Bravo, so many great photos!!
Thanks Jörg.
4:58 It is like an Esher drawing.
Well, I'd happily watch an episode focussing on the industrial archaeology and the dereliction. Always good to record such subjects before they disappear, too.
Times definitely running out James.
Hi, Steve.
This is a very inspiring and motivating video, my friend.
I like it a lot.
Antoine.
I really enjoy these walks through our cities. The Escher was very successful.
Thanks 🙂
I've a GX9, great little camera 📷👍
Really great presentation and writing here, Steve! Just a pleasure to watch!
Thanks Hugo 😊
@@SteveONions my pleasure!
Great images and of course another great video
Thank you Peter.
Brilliant work there, thanks for taking us along with you!
Thanks Gary.
I always get the impression you do these videos simply for the love of photography, which really sets you apart.
And, I think you may have convinced me to get that Diana half-frame.
Thanks, Steve.
Thanks Harry, definitely give the toy cameras a go but be gentle with them, they are not the most robust of tools!
The two images of the doors/locks from 10:00-10:15 were my favourites. Also liked the numeric pad at 9:10!
Thanks Ivar, I really like those too.
Excellent. Entertaining and inspiring. Thank you.
You’re welcome 😊
Nice! :)
I have never been a big fan of the toy cameras like the Diana. However, the three shots at the beginning with it were really lovely. The softness of the lens really contributed to make the shots a bit ethereal. Goes to show it is the photographer not the equipment that makes the photo. I enjoyed all the photos!
Thanks Erich.
love some of the shots, urban photography can be very inspiring
Thank you 😊
Enjoyed this
Nice urban shots. Particularly love the ones taken with the Diana. I’ve always been a fan of BW. You get to feel the mood & soul of the image. Take care
I was surprised how well those film images came out too, very much a mini Holga.
Another nice ramble. Looking forward to more urban work!
Thank you 😊
Great Video and images!!!!
Thanks Sammy
City images are way too many to choose! Steve chose a camera/lens unit that was minmal. I often use my digitals to work seeing my main subjects or better images, in the mess, of shapes, perspectives, moments and varying decay. There's always decay. I find the pristine, the new, clinical boring and actually dead. It's usually huge, the billboards monumental, crushing our smallness as people! It's deliberate. In it's time the cathedral, was to show the Power of the church! Interiors of churches, are always a good choice! Here in Toronto, the art gallery, has been updated! The outside looks like one of those doomed airshps! Mirroring the area, in distortion. The staircases fascinating, redesigned by famous architect. Made very rounded and organic! Truth tell, the old stairs were also amazing! It's all the light and shadow, plus size! An empty square at bottom of first bldg. looks a like a vacant parking, for pay area.As lways Steve had shown and done great work. I love the real beauty of nature, but we are living in this continual re-developmnt. It's all big cities growing larger, into monstrosities.. One of your best videos! A great learning video, at our fingertips. Bravo!
Thanks Jason. I’ve only been to Toronto once and never really had a chance to explore much of the architecture.
Some really nice images throughout, Steve. I never do any urban work so this was a treat to see a different perspective overall.
I enjoyed this video as always. Nice to see your urban side. It’s inspiration for me to try and get a little of the same in.
Glad you liked it Justin.
Thank you I enjoyed this video. I will be working in Liverpool soon and I have some ideas from your video.
Hope you manage to get out and shoot some of the endless possibilities in the City Richard 👍
Great video Steve and it's nice to see how your shots turned out. I think you got some crackers inside the Cathedral. You were also a lot more successful at the end of the day than I was. A lot of my shots turned out blurred. I think I had drunk too much coffee by then.
Thanks Robin, we covered a lot of ground that day and found quite a few new places to shoot.
You've been more lucky with your Diana than me.
I crushed mine in anger when I found every shot ruined by huge light leaks.
Started saving up for my first real camera; the Nikon F (This was in 1968).
Never again. But I really like your Diana shots - and enjoyed your video a lot.
I too got the Escher vibe from the stairs image.
Cheers!
Toy cameras do have a habit of falling apart, especially the wind in mechanisms that don’t take much to snap.
What a rewarding day for you. I could certainly see you working on an abstract series of street pavers and wall decay/rust/graffiti. A couple of your shots reminded me of ones I've taken at an old naval battery, north of Seattle, one of my favorite locations.
I will definitely be more focussed in future Bob, there were too many subjects to do justice to.
I suppose it's a good problem to have in looking about and finding too much that catches your eye as opposed to too little. It provides a plan for subsequent visits.
6:43 I love this photo! From a distance the picture seems to be wider at the top than at the bottom. Bit of an optical illusion going on.
Thanks Anne.
Funny how often coffee figures in my outings too.
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I have tried urban/street a few times Steve and really enjoyed the change. Loved this video especially liked the close up images very nice indeed, thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome John.
I love the graffiti shots on the old doors and stuff; I’m always drawn to compositions like those myself. Tightly framed, compositions of this sort - as you suggest - often take on quite a strong look of abstract art, especially in colour.
Thanks Nigel. I was surprised how good they looked once I closed in tightly, they were lost in the wider framing.
I love that type of photography and closing in on those urban details ,loved what you got on that trip
Thanks Christine.
It takes me back to my days shooting in New York City. You did a great job with your captures. I love the Diana shots. They really worked great. This was fun.
Thanks Bob 🙂
You know already that I'm a great admirer of your landscapes - so I was v interested to see you in the urban genre. I was not disappointed. I too feel there are a myriad of interesting-yet-unnoticed things in street photography, and try to seek these out myself. I especially liked your Diana Mini productions - wonderful!
Thank you 😊
Nicely done Steve love the old graffiti and rust flakes. Not a huge fan of the modern geometric architecture personally when I'm shooting in town I'm always drawn to the urban decay rather than beatification side of things. I loved the old drinking fountain too a slice of history right there. Top vid mate cheers I have a couple of days off last few days of Autumn it's dull and cold, not feeling the landscape shoot urge so might follow your lead and head into town find some rusty stuff to shoot.
I like to mix urban and landscape work Paul, too much of one things makes me stale.
@@SteveONions spot on I shoot such a massive variety of subjects at the paper and on my own time anything and everything, subjects are everywhere.
Loving the urban content Steve!👌🏼
TG there's lots of undeveloped landsape! We need the green, the wind, the cold and wet and sun!
Thanks Lisa.
This normally is not my type of Photography, but I have to say you really nailed it, the images were superb and Its probably your best Video of this type to date, I loved it, best wishes, Colin.
Thanks Colin 🙂
You've no doubt tried this already but your infrared converted camera will transform a standard street shot. No foliage, jet black skies and super crisp whites. I feel a trip to Liverpool coming on....
I have done a fair bit of infrared urban photography Andy and the results were excellent 🙂
Hi Steve, I regularly visit Liverpool to shoot some street photography but never thought about capturing the urban environment (buildings wise) That definitely opens up a whole new list of opportunities and one that I'll definitely be exploring further. You captured a great range of subjects and came away with some cracking image. For the Dock Road area images, I checked the maps, which area offers the greatest potential would you say? I found Dock Road to run for miles North of the city. Brilliant vlog and as others have said, one of the best. You definitely should vlog more of your urban trips 😊
Thanks Paul, I’m fascinated by the little things that I see in the city, so often overlooked.
The whole of the dock road is full of interest but as you say it’s pretty long. You can just walk from the city centre as we did or drive down to the other end near Bootle and walk back. There are so many side streets you could spend days just at the city end (which is where I’d start).
@@SteveONions thank you I'll definitely explore that area next time I'm in Liverpool. It'll make a change from walking up and down Bold St capturing people eating 🤣
I don't usually feel safe in Liverpool, but liked the urban shots you've got here. Best, I liked the photo of the school-type chairs in the cathedral - nicely lit and such good natural colours. I recall going to Liverpool some years ago and seeing three blocks of apartments opposite the maritime museum where the end one was shaped like the bow of a ship. That was interesting. Thanks for the trip. I look forward to seeing more.
I’ve always been more comfortable in Liverpool than anywhere else Neil but I suppose that’s natural given it’s my home town and I’ve worked there a lot.
Steve, I follow several photographer's UA-cam channels, and in most of the postings there are one or two images which if I had taken them, would be displayed on one of me walls at home. Of course there is only so much you can put on walls throughout a home. This video contains more images, ratio wise, than any other I have seen, that if I had taken them, I would consider display worthy. You have an excellent eye, as I have stated before, and you have a wonderful aesthetic to go with that eye. I am wondering if it is just who you are and how you see things, or if at least some of it, is learned? I know that there is such a thing as "educated" taste. I am working on improving my composition skills this year, but I also see a need to improve on what I think is a good subject to have an interest in. I am really taken with what you find to shoot; what you see that attracts your attention, and how you see it and compose it. Did that all develop over time? In any case this is a most excellent video. Thank you for making it and for posting it. Cheers.
Thanks James. It definitely takes time to find subjects that interest you and for me it has been many years before I’ve settled on subject matter that interests me.
Great shots!!! Thats what i like to photograph the most. The little things and hidden compositions and details in a city. Now i want to go outside :)
Glad to see you inspired! 😀
I have a similar problem when i go to town... always looking for those things - tones and textures and juxtapositionings - that resonate in some way with what i really value, which is the non-human world. That, and things like a rusting Ferrari being colonized by lichens and mosses... i can only hope.
Everything’s becoming too tidy these days! 😲
rusty dereliction affliction
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It seemed like an exploratory trip where you were discovering what works and what doesn't. Next time, you can focus on the concepts you liked the most and skip the things you felt did not pan out as well. Urban spelunking.
Very true Dann.