Night Street Photo - Wandering Mind I

Wandering Mind

Nikon FM10 on FujiFilm Superia 1600 • B&W conversion in Photoshop

Night Street Photo - Negotiation

Nikon D70s on 50mm f/1.8 @ f/2.8, 1/50sec. E.V. +0.7 AWB ISO 1600 Matrix Metering. Mono-conversion in Photoshop.

Night Street Photo - Bubble Girl

Nikon D70s on 50mm f/1.8 @ f/2.8, 1/30sec. E.V. +1.0 AWB ISO 900 Matrix Metering. Mono-conversion in Photoshop.

Night Street Photo - Night Shift II

Nikon D70s on 50mm f/1.8 @ f/3.5, 1/8sec. E.V. +0.7 AWB ISO 200 Matrix Metering. Mono-conversion in Photoshop.

Night Street Photo - Night Shift

Nikon D70s on 50mm f/1.8 @ f/2.8, 1/60sec. E.V.+5.0 AWB ISO 1600 Spot Metering. Mono-conversion in Photoshop.

Night Street Photo - No Entry

Nikon D70s on 50mm f/1.8 @ f/2.8, 1/30sec. E.V.+5.0 AWB ISO 1600 Spot Metering. Mono-conversion in Photoshop.

Street Photo - Habitual Pattern II

Habitual Pattern II

Apply iPhone 6 Plus on Noir mode • Flash & HDR off • Post in Snapseed • Vignette added in SimplyB&W

Night Street Photo - Night Alley

Night Alley

Nikon D70s on 50mm f/1.8 @ f/2.8, 1/30sec. E.V.+5.0 AWB ISO 1600 Spot Metering. Mono-conversion in Photoshop.

Night Street Photo - Pre-Occupied II

Pre-occupied II

Nikon D70s on 50mm f/1.8 @ f/2.8, 1/60sec. E.V. +5.0 AWB ISO 1600 Spot Metering. Mono-conversion in Photoshop.

Street Photo - Old Cinema Tickets Book

Old Cinema Tickets Book

Apple iPhone 6 Plus • Flash Off • HDR Off • Post in Snapseed with additional Vignette efex in SimplyB&W

Street Photo - Pongal Festival

Pongal Festival 2015

It's that time of the year for harvest and the local Indians are celebrating their Pongal Festival. Light decors were set up along the newly constructed Campbell Lane.

The rising hot sun shone its blazing light upon this street and I positioned myself where the green colored vase-shaped lamp blocked the sun, hence created such halo glow.

Apple iPhone 6 Plus • Flash Off • HDR Off • Post-processed in Snapseed.

Night Street Photo - Pre-Occupied

Pre-occupied

Today let's talk about night street photography. The above photograph was posted on my other night photography blog site and I thought it would be good to post it and many other night street photos here.

For night street photography, I walked and took photos just the way I do day time street photography but with many great challenges like low light ambience, focusing issue, etc. I've tried auto-focus and manual focus with different camera settings. There's no fixed settings for every street scenery. Just have to pre-adjust when the situation calls for.

Here's how I got the above night street photograph. I was taking some shots of the Clive Street coffee shop (in the background shown above) when this Indian gentleman came along and stood still right in front of me. He stood there for a few moments, looking at his cell phone and I took a few quick burst shots when suddenly he looked up, paused and turned to his left side. From the look of his eyes in this street photo, his mind seems to be pre-occupied. Soon after he walked away.

So I considered myself pretty lucky. Luck is quite important when doing street photography. This Indian gentleman didn't even bother whether I took his photos or not. I bet he didn't even notice me in the first place as the spot I was standing on was in low light condition and I was wearing black T-shirts. My camera was set to Manual Focus mode and I literally had hard time focusing on him. But in the end I managed to get it.

Nikon D70s on 50mm f/1.8 @ f/2.8, 1/60sec. E.V. +5.0 AWB ISO 1600 Spot Metering. Cropped and mono-conversion in Photoshop.