I Do Street… so look both ways before you cross me.

Canada, Travel, Victoria, West Coast

I don’t know who wrote those words (sounds like Tupac) but I like them – especially when it comes to Street Photography! I watched a You Tube presentation this week by The Camera Store: 1EYE, Roaming – Street Photography with Patrick La Roque and was inspired to get out and play in the Atmospheric River plaguing our area this past week. I was meeting the daughter and grandson for dinner at one of our favourite restaurants, the Tapa Bar in Trounce Alley, so walked from our condo with camera in hand.

I’m still suffering from decision fatigue ( could this be a Covid thing?) so please excuse the number of images. I’m just not going to fight it anymore since it is keeping me from actually finishing all the THINGS!

The Victoria Harbour is always so pretty; day, night, calm or turbulent.
The path to grandeur; take me to the iconic Empress
Rain, rain and more rain
A bit of sheltered reprieve from the rain
Down into Bastion Square
Some very wet waiting chairs
A long time favourite
Trounce Alley Gate
I’m not super comfortable posting images of people I don’t know but he leaned in and there he is.
the grandson started taking photos for me – he’s 4, pretty good for his first “street” images
The guys were working hard; tapas were being prepared, flames were flaring, plates were being filled and customers were being satisfied. Open kitchens are endlessly fascinating for young and old alike! Nice capture buddy!

In spite of my current injury I loved getting out and playing in the rain. I paid all day last night and today though. Another issue I ended up with was all the black and white photos that I took. They looked awesome in camera but when I downloaded them into Lightroom they all processed as colour images. I could not get the same high-key result in processing. Any ideas?

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  1. Nice set Suze. I use Silver Efex for much of my black and white. When I am not using Silver Efex, I make a number of counter-intuitive changes all based on the idea that I want to widen the histogram (increase tonal range) as I find Lightroom’s defualt B&W histogram is too narrow. So I often slide the contrast to the right, highlights and white to the right, bring back detail by sliding shadows to the right, and then slide black to the left. I then fine tune using other controls such selective sharpening, subracting noise, and sliding clarity either left or right. Cheers, Sean

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  2. Never be ashamed of posting too many photographs! You’re out there, doing the work to see and capture them. I’m loving the wet colour and reflections! I’m still struggling with B&W myself and the differences between what the camera showed me and what Lightroom shows me (working through that this very instant, actually) so I’m not much help to you there. Stay dry!

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