TWiP Street Focus

This week my guest co-host Marius Vieth and I discuss how to develop a style and how to get in the zone.

Street Focus 61: Q&A and Street Challenge

Q&A

This week my guest co-host Marius Vieth and I discuss how to develop a style and how to get in the zone.

A few words about Marius:

Marius Vieth is a 21 times award winning fine art photographer focused on street photography from Germany who’s based in Amsterdam. He travels around the world to capture golden moments and manages his own international Fine Arts Label NEOPRIME. Besides that, he offers private coaching, has written 5 books about street photography and creativity, he works as a judge for contests, pours his heart and soul into his YouTube Channel and he’s the publisher and curator of his own premium print photography magazine “NEOPRIME Contemporary Fine Art Photography”.

His website

His YouTube Channel

NEOPRIME Print Magazine

NEOPRIME Fine Arts Label

Pick of the Week:

It’s not about the F-Stop by Jay Maisel published by New Riders/Peachpit

And the winners are….

Steve Morin

©Steve Morin

and

Laurent Gauthier

©Laurent Gauthier

Both winners will receive an e-book of their choice thanks to our friends at Rocky Nook.

NEW Street Challenge: ABSTRACT in the streets. Listen to the show to hear some tips from Marius and Valerie. Enter you best shot in the comment section below by December 10. The winners will each receive a copy of Neoprime Magazine

Examples of abstract street photography by Marius Vieth and Valerie Jardin:

This week I sit down with documentary-style wedding photographer Kevin Mullins to talk about his work and the similarities in the way he approaches a wedding shoot and street photography.

Street Focus 60: Weddings and Street with Kevin Mullins

This week I sit down with documentary-style wedding photographer Kevin Mullins to talk about his work and the similarities in the way he approaches a wedding shoot and street photography.

Who is Kevin Mullins?

Kevin Mullins

I’m a wedding photographer with a passion for people watching.  I want my wedding photographs to be snapshots of real, uncontrived but tender moments in time.  Weddings are where I ply my trade, but really it’s just “people being people” – they happen to be at weddings.  I shoot with the small, Fujifilm mirrorless cameras and always with natural light only.  This allows me to shoot the wedding from the inside out, and I want my clients to be taken right back to that moment in time when the image was exposed and see it from their guests eye view.  I was the first Fujifilm X-Photographer in the wedding area and shoot exclusively as a documentary / candid photographer.  Street Photography is my training ground.

Links:

Wedding Website:  www.kevinmullinsphotography.co.uk

Personal, Street & Fuji Work:  http://f16.click

Twitter:  @kevin_mullins

Instagram:  kevinmullinsphotography

Wedding and Street Photography by Kevin Mullins:

This week is a new Streets of the world episode and we are going to Vancouver, Canada. Photographer Ian MacDonald is your guide for this new adventure.

Street Focus 59: Streets of the World ~ Vancouver with Ian MacDonald

This week is a new Streets of the world episode and we are going to Vancouver, Canada.  Photographer Ian MacDonald is your guide for this new adventure.

Ian MacDonald is a photographer, paramedic, and educator based out of Vancouver, Canada.  From Ian’s website:

Ian MacDonald

I love shooting street photography, portraiture, weddings, fitness, and dance. Travel photography, however, is one of my deepest passions.  There usually comes a time when an artist finds their style or their niche, and I have been embracing all opportunities until mine appeared.  I have come to realize through this constant shooting that I don’t just love portraiture… or street photography… or weddings. What I really love are people.

When I think about this statement it shouldn’t come as a surprise to me.   My formal education is in adult education and pre-hospital emergency medicine.  For the last two decades a large part of my professional life (outside of photography) has consisted of working as a paramedic and as an EMS educator.  My career has been one of taking care of the ill and injured, caring for people when they are suffering, and teaching and supporting others through their journey in EMS.  My work hasn’t been about ambulances, IV catheters, defibrillators, splints, hard collars or stretchers…. it has been about people.  The 15,000 people I have cared for as a paramedic.  The 20,000 people I have taught over the years.The camera has become a tool for me to meet new people and to go to new places.  It has become my way of connecting, sharing, and serving. Throughout the last few years a constant has been the theme of collaborating with people, and building relationships through the art of photography.  It gives me joy in a way I haven’t experienced otherwise, and provides me with a glimpse of what I need to be doing with my life as I move forward. I now shoot street photography and portraiture as often as I can.  I travel and explore new places, and write about my experiences on my blog.  I use and write about Fuji’s amazing gear.   Last but not least, I am using my 20 years of educational experience to develop new educational resources for photographers that I am very excited to share with you soon. And, I am loving every minute of it.

Here is the link to the map of Vancouver Ian follows on the show.

Visit Ian’s Website, following him on Twitter: @IanMPhotography or Instagram: ianmacdonaldphotography

Here are a few images shot on the streets of Vancouver by Ian MacDonald:

 

There is never a dull moment on the streets with Levi Sim. In this episode of Street Focus we talk about his work as a commercial photographer and his passion for people and street portraits.

Street Focus 58: Levi Sim, The Unconventional Street Photographer

There is never a dull moment on the streets with Levi Sim! In this episode of Street Focus we talk about his work as a commercial photographer and his passion for people and street portraits.

Levi Sim

Passion drives Levi to make photographs, teach, and help new friends. He tells people he’s a photographer, but he really does more than just make pictures. His professional photography is primarily commercial work for businesses, both small and large, and he really helps show how great it’d be to work with those companies. He excels at photographing people, from two year olds to oil field workers to couples married for 60 years, everyone has a good time making pictures with Levi.

Besides people and businesses, Levi enjoys all other aspects of photography, and practices landscapes and still life, as well. Other people enjoy photographing everything, and Levi wants to be able to help, so he practices as much as he can to be ready to help. He also runs a local photography club, is on the board of the local chamber of commerce, is a Rotarian, actively helps at church, is a husband, and poppa to a peppy four-year-old girl. Levi writes regularly for Photofocus.com and is co-author of books on Adobe Lightroom.

Connect with Levi! See his website, followin him @PhotoLevi on Instagram, visit him on Photo Focus

This week on Street Focus, my guest co-host Ken Lyons and I answer questions from about ways to offer a copy of the photo to the subject of a street portrait, how to protect our cameras from the elements and much more!

Street Focus 57: Q&A and Street Challenge

This week my guest co-host Ken Lyons and I answer questions from Sheila Bodine, Michael Schmitt, Levi Shand and Karolina Trapp about ways to offer a copy of the photo to the subject of a street portrait, how to protect our cameras from the elements and where to draw the line about what it ethical to publish online. We then announce the winners of the last Street Challenge, announce a new one and give our picks of the week!

To see more of Ken Lyons’ work, his workshops and upcoming online tutorials, please visit his website.

And if you want to come and hang out with Ken and me in Rome in April, there are a few spots left via my website.

And The Winners Are….

Rober Munoz

©Rober Munoz

Thomas Mauer with ‘Golden Autumn’

©Thomas Mauer

Judy Robb with ‘Market day in Paris’

©Judy Robb

 

Congratulations to all three winners, they will receive an ebook of their choice from our friends at RockyNook!

Next Street Challenge: Create motion by using a PANNING technique. Listen to the tips we gave on the show and check some online articles and tutorials to help you master the technique. And remember, it doesn’t have to be tack sharp but the choice of subject is the important part! The deadline to enter your best panning shot in the comment section below is November 12. Good luck!

Picks of the Week:

Ken’s pick: Camslinger Camera Bag

Valerie’s pick: Humans of New York Stories by Brandon Stanton

Some panning shots for inspiration by Valerie Jardin. Remember, the subject doesn’t have to be tack sharp, but it has to be interesting!