Last week JD and Angela (her close friend) went over to Louisiana to visit some nurseries. I would have gone, but my schedule was just too full to work it in; and besides, they didn’t ask me—something about wanting to have fun looking at dumb flowers, plants and stuff. So, Friday evening, I ventured down to Discovery Green Park in downtown Houston to see the Art Cars on display.
Before I went, I decided that I wanted to do some old school street photography—one camera, one lens, no flash, no tripod, no directing anyone, catch-what-you-can photography. I armed myself with my Nikon D3 and Nikon 50mm f/1.4. That was it.
I must admit, at first, I was completely off my game. I discovered that Nikon forgot the zoom button on the lens. To make objects bigger in the frame, I had to walk closer, and vice versa. Photography and an exercise program in a single package—what a novel idea.
My first photo from the evening is a classical 50’s street photo—mother and child walking away presented in black and white. In the photo, I wanted the photo to be about only mother and daughter and their relationship so I used a shallow depth of field to isolate them from the rest of the scene.
Enjoy.
Camera settings: Nikon D3, Nikon 50mm f/1.4 shot at ISO 200, f/2 and 1/2,000th of a second.
Post Processing:
Lightroom—Set black and white points and cropped image.
Photoshop—used nik Silver Efex Pro to convert photo to black and white and added some vignette to the corners.