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Use the new Panasonic LUMIX GH7. You get amazing stabilization, autofocus, there is a new electronic internal zoom which increases 50-300%, you can do photo or video, & can pick whichever zoom lens you want. If you use a focal reducer, you can use S35 or Full frame zooms, giving you even more options with a Full Frame field of view. I recommend a variable zoom over the fixed ones because you don’t really know how far away your subject is going to be so you can adjust that on the fly
Excelente video gracias por compartir sus conocimientos 👏🏼
Post rationalisation is always a bit of a worrying thing for me. I rarely do it because it’s too easy to convince your self on a ‘rational’ level that something is good. Of the few shots I’ve made over the years that are really important to me they are the ones that speak to my heart, never my head. Likewise with other photographer’s work of course. I can’t remember who said it (or what the actual quote was) but I remember someone once saying that ‘all good art is reconciled in the heart”. I wish I could find it again as it’s a classic truism of our craft.
There is always that challenge. Analysing my own work is very helpful to me. I learn a lot when I pick the "best" one from the images I have made during the period between these Story Of My Image -videos. I pick the "best" image that I feel is the best. It is always a combination of head and heart.
I think the shopkeeper barely visible in the doorway really makes the shot.
I agree, it adds more story to the image.
40mm is my favored street photography lens. I can get close images without being so invasive of a person's space. 23mm and28mm require me to get too close for strangers' comfort. 50mm is okay, but can look rather like a snapshot. 40mm, to me, is perfect.
I like the purple pots and I also like the yellow raincoat. It's good to be fast on the shutter.
Extra tip was the best one
Glad you liked it.
Objectively, the 3rd photo is better, eg for framing in a room. But, in consideration, 1 picture 1000 words, i choose the 1st. And I explain why. The cross section of the tunnel is made in hard rock, and the lining is just with shot Crete, therefore very strong rock. The people, following the irregular surface at a distance, are at a distance also from each other. Just like being careful. Different approach to choosing the best photo ....
Thanks.
Excellent image Peter I appreciate your methodology regarding your composition, and how quickly you are with your decision making.
Thank you.
I really like your videos lately. Inspiring and talking about taking photos, what we all love.
Thanks. Glad you like them!
Your videos really inspire me to get out and take some photos in the streets. Well done! For now I have to be patient and get better after a bicycle accident a week ago. My bike helmet really saved my skull this time. Wear a bike helmet if you approach your shootings or photo walks by bicycle!
Thanks. Glad you are ok. I totally agree, wear a helmet when cycling.
2024...is the starry AF or face detection added yet? How does this still stack up to g9ii and xt5?
Not that I know of. Haven't used G9II or XT-5 so cannot really say. I can say that XT-5 is meant for a bit different type of photography that E-M1X for example. Those two cameras cannot really be compared.
Why not the Voigtländer 27mm? I feel like I maybe would be more comfortable with a manual focus lens than a loud distracting autofocus. What do you think?
That could be options. Since I have tjis lens and the TTArtisan 27mm I am quite ok with these two lenses.
I just got a Tough TG-6 and was repulsed by the box settings - way too washed out and with sunny skies blown out in the Natural setting for me. I hate unnatural-looking, oversaturated pics but have to use Vivid just to get some kind of pop into my pics and compensate a notch with the exposure dial if I need to. Toying with the idea of using I-Enhance set on low but all it seems to be is Vivid with the contrast adjusted a bit to lighten the whole pic, so I'm not sure if I like it yet. What's your opinion on i-enhance? Is it going to blow out my skies even more? I want quick images with as little post work as possible so jpeg only for me. I'm even getting sick of a simple rotate and crop given the number of pics I take when travelling. Getting damned lazy in my old age.
Is the exposure correct so that there is no exposure compensation on?
@@ForsgardPeter I think so. My beef is with washed out background mountains in sunlight, horribly backlit objects and grainy skies. My old Canon GX9 Mark II got water damaged and I miss its lovely rich, smooth skies.
What is the exposure shift option? It's not explained well in the manual but it seems to be an overall setting you can use e.g. to make all your photos less exposed having a different zero baseline from which to do exposure compensation as needed. Is that correct? Might shooting in SCN scenery HDR mode work for these shots I'm having difficulty with?
Thanks for your instructive videos! So a thought: Me, retired, and amateur photographer with, to say the least, unfairly limited pension. Have an Olympus EM1 MafkII. Set up a challenge, to photograph flying house swallows, as I found a perfect venue for this. Now, what would I gain by investing in an OM 1 in this case? Thinking, so fast progress can a "safer continuous autofocus" marginally simplify the shooting? Was advised to invest in the Olympus 300mm F4 first. Which was among the first things I did.
Thanks!
Good video, thanks. Ok. In LrC is a big problem to manage Olympus raw (I have em1 m ii). I often use linear profil to start editing. I might try using ws for global editing and then switch to LrC for local adjustment.. but it's absurd to pay a lot of money for Adobe to not have compatibility with om 😡
For Ai noise reduction LrC is good but it produce a new file.. probably is better to manage in ws and after manage one file in LrC..
What do you mean LrC has no compatibility with OM?
@@ForsgardPeter From many past updates to today, LrC with Olympus film simulations (I don’t know with OM) are terrible (especially the WB and the too strong contrast). So I have to use linear profiles
Great video good points. Thx for that.
Thank you.
Recently bought the PRO I new for $AUS700. Noow wondering whether I should compliment it with an Olympus PRO 40 - 150mm f4 or a Panny-Leica 35 - 100mm f2.8. All ready rejected the Olympus 40 -150mm f2.8 as I feel it is too large for me.
I don’t agree about not photographing beggars, homeless. They are in the public domain. I don’t see what’s unethical. It’s just what is.
I think photographing people in trouble is not ethical. I always try to show people with respect. Social Documentary and a goal to show the inequality and an aim to fix that is another approach. Also in photojournalism is the same. I am doing mostly classical street photography so I think that it is not ethical. I do see your point and idea.
Than you are missing out on the reality and truth of life. People can't be shy about photographing the reality of life.
Very thought provoking video. Thank you. I think of your photographs as definitely having a distinct style. From what I've seen, you do very thought provoking candid environmental street photographs that are often of layered subject matter. You use reflections quite often, which conveys deep thought and draws me into the scene to a greater depth. I usually see a well composed street subject, which could stand on its own but you always have a human element, even if it's a human remnant (something left or an umbrella poking out of a doorway). I would characterize your style as indirect, thought provoking, melancholic, with an intricate connection between the subject and scene. Your settings are minimalist and dramatic. Compare this to Robin Wong, who I also enjoy, but his street photography is very much direct environmental portraiture. He captures faces wonderfully, and the background us usually very colorful, of complex visual interest and surrounds the subject. He makes art of every-day people with their expressions and composure in a setting that conveys their everyday life. I've never actually thought about this before, but your video has made me more aware of these different but amazing styles.
Thank you very much for your thoughts. You are propably right about my style. Yes I agree that my style is totally different from Robins. We have quite different personalities and photograph in totally different culture.
If you needed any more input on street photography and its merrit, here you got it. If you need to learn how to pretend you aren't looking at people, you might not want to take photos of then without theor consent either.
It is all about not being part of what is happening. As I say so that the thing you photograph would have happened excatly the same way even if the photographer was not there.
Its a really useful app. My drone take good 4k video but the stills are not good and Gigapixel has helped alot to make images more pleasing to look at.
Glad the software is helpful. I have also used it for drone shots.
I photograph what I think is interesting. I also have a way I post-process my photos. If there is a unique style there, so be it. I think I would rather have a style that is something that others see but that I don’t explicitly do. An unconscious style means I have no restrictions on my creativity.
Well said.
I would go in extreme opposite direction, as Vivian Maier
She was the master of being invisble out in the open. No one would expect her to photograph.
@@ForsgardPeter Well, she often released the shutter when the person was staring directly into the lens, for me it's not being invisible. But that was different times, good old times with analogs :) Cheers.
Yes, she has that approach too. She also has a lot if different style.
Great tips, Peter! Thanks
Thank you.
Very insightful, as usual! Thx Peter.
Very interesting video, I often think about how to have my personal style, but then, when I look back to my photos, for example on Instagram, I can recognize that they have an homogeneity, even if the subjects are different, and that can be defined my style. I enjoy your videos, they are always a good inspiration to think about photography.
Thank you very much.
I have front button as c1, movie record as c2, iso as c3. This only works in Manual mode. So if i jump into a menu to activate a setting (eg bracketing) i leave the custom setting i was on. My work around for this is to assign the settings i would want to turn on and off (that arent in the control panel menu) to the drive and |○| buttons on top left. These can be assigned to different functions within each custom setting. So in my wildlife/children custom setting i have x2 teleconverter and face detect on/off. But in my woodland/landscapes the same buttons are assigned to ND filter and Bracketing. I'm hoping a firmware update will allow Art and Scn to be used as custom buttons in the future.
I agree that more Customs Buttons should be added via firmware. It use to be like that in E-M10 MKII.
Peter - a thought provoking subject which for me means that I have different styles dependent on the subject/ objectives etc.I like the ideas inherent in this issue and need to identify the objectives more !
You are not stealing anything, an image you capture is your property, at least in Canada. It is best to just be out front about your photography, it is perfectly legal and you dont have to sneak around or be apologetic to anyone, be kind but firm.
I like your compositions, many of your photographs have two contrasting elements, far and near, or a person against a background. These are good photos! But personally I simply enjoy taking photos, of lots of subjects - maybe I haven’t found a style yet, or have many styles 🤣
Awesome! Thank you!
Thanks for the review. Those are beautiful images you shot!
Thank you very much.
Whilst I know this is an older video, post, I,would like to add a comment for anyone looking at it. First, color photography was started in the late 1930s, my dad (an amateur photographer) shot mostly Kodachrome 35mm slides, which I have. I studied color photography in schools in the mid 1960s. I also studied B&W photography and shot B&W on film in the 1050s as a youngster, and throughout my secondary school years in the early 1960s, and processed my own film and prints. After a career as both a commercial photographer early on and later a photojournalist, I got the Olympus Pen F after retirement to shoot digital B&W photos with. I use its dedicated B&W setting and have tuned two B&W film emulations, a ASA 125 and a Tri-X simulation. I had the original Pen F 35mm half frame camera in the mid 1960s for a travel camera, and it was brilliant. So getting the new PenF was a must. Cheers
Thanks for sharing.
Some years ago I did some street photography with my still functional though now dated M8 and my film Canon AE1 ! Got some nice photos into a local Art Festival - very nice ! Now having a Camera in hand is like turning up at an Airport holding a surface to air missile ! So the solution for me is simple : Use your Mobile Phone - nobody cares ? results are super ! You can still use your camera for other stuff as I do ! I admit you have given a lot of great advice ! Try your phone ! its super !
Thank you. Phone is good device for street photography if the ergonomics is not a problem.
Great idea about getting a Hotel Room with Balcony. A style of street photography, where I don't have to be interrupted by people complaining about using a camera. Have noticed when I use small frame camera, like my Oly Pen e-p5, Canon M6mkii, or Canon M3, people tend to leave me alone. Buying my cameras used saves money. Am trying different cameras to see which camera gives me monochrome I like. Sony a6500 seems to be accepted by public also. Makes me look like a tourist, I guess. I really enjoy your tips.
here a Pro question for you : Does the camera allow you to use uncoupled AE ? Meaning, Can you use the camera in AF/S/C or MF mode and enable constant metering while keeping the shutter button half pressed ( Sony offers this setting via menue ) or is it like Panasonic S series where you can only achieve "free AE adjustments" when using the camera in AF/C mode and change the AFL/ AEL setting in menu. ( Pamasonic does NOT ALLOW FREE AE when using AF/S or MF even if you sent the camera to AF/C and set the lens switch to MF ) .... no reviewer mentions this but for reportage photo and video free AE is very important not only in AFC but especially MF .... maybe you could explain how the Olympus is handling this problem ?
I have to look into that. I do not have OM-1 cameras anymore, so it might be a bit hard to make sure how it is. Interesting question, though.
@@ForsgardPeter That would be indeed interesting bcause Panasonic USA does not want to give me an answer and none of the YT Panaboys want to address the issue either. They either say check the setting or they say: it has never been an issue for me . while as a reportage photograper/filmer it is my biggest problem with the Panasonic S system, where the AE is locked on half press in AF/S and MF mode. Only AF/C allows to have constantly changing AE and you can also map a custom button to lock it. But as soon as you switch a lens from AF to MF via the lens switch it reverts to camera style MF mode and locks AE at half press. So for me as a reportage guy it is unusable because you always have the finger at half presss or you are missing shots. Equally when you are panning a scene in video.
I haven’t given much thought to style but I can see the plus points of developing a style mainly to add focus (ignore the pun!} to my photography rather than been to widespread with my topics, or on the other hand does it matter providing you enjoy what you do?
Not necessarily if you enjoy your photography. The enjoyment is the most important thing.
There's something I'm curious about. Why don't they make the camera sensors bent and then fix the distortion. Thus, they can fit a larger sensor into a smaller body
That could be interesting concept. No idea if it would work.
Another good video, I had the GR111 sent it back, normal AF and snap weren’t great. 2m, f8 shutter 500 but not great. How do you find this version.
I find it very good. It is the same camera as GR3. The only difference is the lens. This one has a 26,1mm lens.
Style, big debate. A classification tree can be followed, starting from the kind (landscape, street, cats, ...) the equipment, lens (24mm, 50mm, ...), the process technique at home, with clever ideas (photograph through a box, ....), promotion is important (small words with maximum influence). But can be even the dressing style or the location way (from the roof of a car). That way, a medium is needed to describe, the way, the style the photographer is following. Question: All of us have photographed tour Aifel; which has the better photo; the one who has more to describe
Well said. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Out of the GR3s how many have you tried? Debating which one to get next month for street and "social outings" photography
What do you mean? Different GRs or other cameras? I have had only this version of GR3. There is the GR3 and GR3x. Identical cameras exept the lens. Then GRs has different version that are mainly how the camera looks. Slightly different colors etc. Mine is the Urban Edition.
@ForsgardPeter haven't done my homework, I guess. I always thought each style like for example; diary edition, came with different lenses, lol
Maybe its a small town thing but street photography makes me feel creepy
It can if it is done the peeping style...
@ForsgardPeter disturbing to say the least. I'll pass
I really disagree with this video. If you have to take extra effort to include your style then you are a fake: you don't have a style. Style is like a personality- everyone has one even if they don't know it. I'm reminded of the Brady Bunch when Peter was told he didn't have any personality. Branding is different from style. Branding is intentional.
Good points.In my opinion the style is always intentional even if one thinks it is not. It is something that is in the back of your mind. Branding is a bit on the commercial side, but I think it applies also to any photographer who wants to be better and known. That has happened with evry know photographer. The style comes from the personality and then many intentionally follow that path. Of course the style can change in the course of photographers career.
I recognise my pictures and I don't have a style, subject style o color style, must because how you said we like photograph different thing. And I think is not bad off course in platform like instagram is something can put you down but it happens many times when I like some photos and after a while scrolling down I get bored because nothing is different. Plus I think not having a style and experimenting is definitely a good thing and getting out of your comfort zone is where you get the best photos.
Well said. I have kind of gotten bored with Instagram. Very seldom anything that coughts my eye. Maybe I should try to post something that is different.
I used to do a lot of photography of older buildings and sometimes the locals assumed I was connected to the people who wanted to tear them down. I've actually had someone come at me with a hatchet in his hand (he calmed down after we spoke). I love landscapes, the trees never complain.
I had a similat incident yesterday. It can happen when photographing old buildings that are about to be demolished.
I noticed that your photographs have dark and light areas and a flow of light guiding the eye from one to the other, is this your style? Like a rembrandt. Or is it just the video compression doing that?
I always try to look for the light. Remrant type lighting is my favorite type of light. Maybe it is?
Peter it make sense. God video
Thank you!
I don’t have a style thankfully
A downside of digital photography is images can be endlessly tweaked, with little effort. Combined with a manufacturer's promise that their next camera will make our photos look "better", a photographer can shoot for years without ever settling on a consistent style that represents how they see the world.
Thanks for sharing! I can definitely recognize my own photos both in good and bad😀 I've shot so many great photos from a window or a balcony.
I agree that you have a style that can be recognized. I have seen mostly the good. Next time we meet I want to see the bad!
@@ForsgardPeter Thanks for the compliments. I'll do my best next time to share the worst😅
Looking forward to that!