Tag: Strassenfotografie

Up

Up | Genoa | 2025

Up was the motto of the day! We went up the map, driving from Genoa north (up the map ) back to Nuremberg. The drive was uneventful, and even going up San Bernardino pass in Switzerland while crossing the Alps was on clear roads under a blue sky through snow capped mountains.

“Up” is also the name of the heartwarming Pixar movie about an elderly widower, Carl Fredricksen, who ties thousands of balloons to his house to fulfill his late wife’s dream of adventure.  Obviously the four balloons of the “balloon man” in Genoa’s Porto Antico are not enough to make him levitate. But the balloons will be the perfect segway into my next post, that will be about a little mountain village on the Ligurian coast that has made balloons its claim to fame.

This street photograph is a snapshot taken with my iPhone 14 Pro with some post processing in Lightroom Classic.

If you are looking for some tips and inspirations around street photography, check out my free Learning Center. 

Have a great Tuesday

Marcus

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With the Fuji in the Centro Storico

Christmas Decorations in Via San Lorenzo in Genoa's Centro Storico
1/50 sec | f/4.5 | ISO 3200 | 41mm

The Significant Other and I are spending the first days of the year in our “Southern Home” in Genoa. Yesterday afternoon we walked from our place into the historic center to see the exhibition of Genoa born photographer Lisetta Carmi in the Palazzo Ducale (will do a separate post about the exhibition). Her black & white street photography work is really inspiring, and as I was with the Fuji in the Centro Storico, I dialed in the ACROS film simulation for some monochrome shooting of my own. For the resulting images (all jpgs out of the camera) continue after the jump….

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Smoked Up

Kiss the Hand
Kiss the Hand | Nuremberg | 2024

Nuremberg’s historical Christmas Market has been closed for the year on Christmas Eve. But there is still time to share some street photographs I took at the “Schaschlik-Bude”, were the staff was working hard and all smoked up to prepare little meat skewers that were one of the culinary attractions of the market.

Fore some more images of the steamy food stall continue after the jump…

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Collision Course

A car has hit a parking bollard in this image called collision course
Collision Course | Quimper | 2024

Street Photography is not necessarily about capturing human beings on the stage of life. It is also about seeing those little things that happen out in the streets, the little stories that make us smile about life happening in front of our lens. When I saw this 90 degrees bent bollard behind that car parked in Quimper, France, I had to laugh, I thought this was hilarious. I have captured that snapshot dubbed Collision Course with my iPhone.

So take your camera (or smartphone), hit your local streets and look for this little funny scenes that also tell the stories of the streets.

If you are looking for more tips and inspirations around street photography, take a look around my free Learning Center.

Have a great Tuesday!

Marcus

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Nightly Encounter

Nightly Encounter - Red haired girl meeting another girl in a wedding dress
Nightly Encounter | Vannes | 2024

As avid street photographer, I’m always looking for those stories of the street happening in front of my lens. Like during this nightly encounter in the streets of Vannes in Brittany, France. Look at the image and let it tell you a story of everyday live. Maybe a bit of an unusual story, happening at 11pm in the evening.

Taken with thy Olympus OM-D E-M1X and the mZuiko 12-100mm F/4 Pro Zoom.

If you feel like picking up your camera to go out and capture the stories of the streets yourself, check out the tips and inspirations around street photography in my free Learning Center.

Wish you a great Monday!

Marcus

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Visual Balance

Lady with a dress walking through Genoa's Centro Storico at night
1/40 sec | F/4 | ISO 3200 | 83mm

Strolling through Genoa’s Centro Storico the other night I took this street photograph with my Fuji X-T2 and the Fujinon XF 1:2.8-4/18-55mm R LM OIS. I like this shot, for the composition, color balance, light, gesture and the story. I tried a monochrome conversion, but stuck with color. You might note, that the neon sign of the little Trattoria is inverted, as it is transparent and shows the “right” side uphill to were likely more potential customers come from when walking down Via San Bernardo towards the port area. So when doing post production in Lightroom Classic, I mirrored the image horizontally, so the sign reads the right way. But with that, I think, the photograph lost its visual balance. Check for yourself after the jump….

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Promise to myself

Old Lady in a colorful beach dress enjoying an ice cream
Ice Ice Baby | Laigueglia | 2024

One blog post per month does not meet my own expectations for myself. But this is how it has been lately. Not much more going on in my photography. Also not doing my own expectations and aspirations justice. But this is how it has been lately. But this is how life is sometimes. There are too many things going on in parallel, in the job that pays the bills as well as in personal life. So something that, for many years, has been in the spotlight of my activities, has been relegated to a place in the far corner of daily life. Sometimes I feel bad about it, sometimes I don’t, because the other things are just as fun. But when out in the streets, these days hardly with a camera around the neck, but always with the iPhone in hand, I’m always looking around. Consciously or subconscious scanning my surroundings for the stories of the street, or the faces of the street. It’s wired into me, and it’s always fun. And when I get this one shot taht makes me smile at the end of the day I’m totally happy.

So my promise to myself is to do better. In my photography. And in my writing about it.

Have a great Wednesday

Marcus

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Hangover

Man sitting in bar with green illuminated panels, potentially getting himself a hangover

The political correct term should be layover, rather than hangover. After all, the dictionary definition for layover is “a period of rest or waiting before a further stage in a journey.” But I’m sure, the one or other patron of this waterhole might also get himself a hangover while waiting for the connecting flight. I captured the scene at a bar in Amsterdam airport. You’ll find another shot from this perfectly illuminated “Theater of Street Photography” after the jump…

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Tilted

Girl standing at a tilted red traffic light
Tilted | Genoa | 2023

For today’s post I selected a color street photograph, one I call “tilted”. I generally love black & white street photos. Colors can draw the viewer’s attention away from the main subject of the photo. Bright or contrasting colors can create a visual noise that detracts from the overall composition of the photograph. This can be especially true if the captured colors are not balanced or if they do not complement each other in a pleasing way.

In some cases, however, the use of color can be intentional and can enhance the overall impact of a street photograph. The photographer might use color to draw attention to a specific detail or element within the scene, or to create a particular mood or atmosphere.

The slightly irritated view of the girl noticing a a photographer pointing a Leica SL2-S at her face would have just as well worked in black & white. But I felt that the unusual, tilted position of the little figure in the red lamp of the pedestrian crossing traffic light needed color to work, to get noticed.

The key is to use color deliberately and thoughtfully, rather than allowing it to distract from the main subject or message of the photograph.

I took the photograph with my Leica SL2-S and the Vario-Elmarit-SL 1:2.8/24-70 ASPH. Image specs are 1/400 sec, f/4.5, ISO 3200 and 61mm focal lenght.

For more tips and inspirations around street photography check out my free Learning Center.

Wish you all a happy Tuesday

Marcus

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Airphone

Man talking into a cellphone while holding a long balloon - the new airphone
Airphone | Genoa | 2023

The fun thing when roaming the streets with a camera in hand is, that you never know what the real life happening around you has in store for you. The important thing is to keep the eyes open. Then you can discover all sorts of interesting things. Like the brand new Airphone Pro Max Plus, that the guy standing in Genoa’s Via Garibaldi is using.

The image was taken with my iPhone 14 Pro and post-processed (incl. B&W conversion) in Lightroom Classic.

If you are looking for tips and inspirations around street photography you can find in my free Learning center.

Have a great Monday

Marcus

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Silent Sunday

A couple and their two dogs sitting a coffee table, seemingly ignoring themselves on a silent sunday
Silent Sunday | Genoa | 2023

Have your talked to your partner lately? It seems, this is not only a human problem, as illustrated by this street photograph I’ve titled “Silent Sunday”, taken two Sundays ago in the Streets of Genoa. Capturing scenes like this is for me the fun in street photography. As William Shakespeare said: “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women, merely players”.

Here’s a creative tip for today. Grab your camera (or smartphone), head out to the streets of wherever you live and see if you can capture a scene that could be titled “Silent Sunday”.

If you are looking for more tips and inspirations around (street) photography, check out my free Learning center.

The image was taken with my iPhone 14 Pro and post-processed in Lightroom Classic.

Have a great Sunday

Marcus

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Hidden Photographer

Hidden Photographer
Hidden Photographer | Genoa | 2023

Welcome to March. Technically we should have spring now. Unfortunately, it’s still winter outside. No wonder that the casual weekend shoppers head into coffee shops to warm up. Have you seen the hidden photographer? I’ve got myself a blond pony tail…

Playing with reflections is a great area of street photography. You should grab your camera (or phone) and go looking for interesting reflections yourself.

More tips and inspirations around street photography you can find in my free Learning center.

The image was taken with my iPhone 14 Pro and post-processed in Lightroom Classic.

Have a great start into March

Marcus

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