wednesday walk at St.Petersburg (visual story, 14 foto)
Today started as a cloudy grey day, which turned into a long annoying rain. I managed to harvest some captures anyway, even though by the end I was hiding the camera beneath my leather coat. How could I miss and skip another #WednesdayWalk? No way! I didnt borrow umbrella with me. Instead of that, I was holding my Canon 5D full-frame camera, and 150mm macro lens, which of course is not an ideal solution for streetphoto, but as I stumble upon mushrooms all around a lot, I dont change recently the macro lens to anything else at all.
So, some streetphoto from non-parade St.Petersburg for #WednesdayWalk challenge by @tattoodjay. All pictures taken by me.
Kidz relaxing and playing at school yard after their lessons.
What is unusual about this quite usual young Russian lady? She wears no mask...
The man goes out of the store with a block of cigarets. he might filled up his stock for a week or few. A makeshift seasonal grocery store for watermelons is seen at the background. The most typical feature of the Autumn season here.
A scooter courier of Yandex Food Delivery Service, in his distinctive yellow uniform, having a spare minute. OF COURSE, he spent it with his smartphone and a cigarette.
Municipal folks clean bus station from a mass of ads and stickers.
I like it a lot when leaves arent swept from ther streets and lawns!
A girl is playing frisby with her father at a playing ground. I noticed her schoolbag at the bench, so probably they were going back home from school, same as we. And this little physical activity is a best way to relax from studies, before venturing into doing of a homework.
Intresting scene that left unexplained to me. I wish I had time to come up and ask what that boy was carrying. There might be some intresting story befind those tools, definitely not a simple toy sword! Something bizarre and unique. Unfortunately I was in a rush and took the pic across the road, had no time for building any communication at all..
The conductor in the tram. She had a very sad, weared out look; after 10 minutes of eye contact, I broke down and took a picture of her. Despite the very poor lighting, to my surprise, the shot came out well.
An unusual scooter driver.
Lady under rain assumably going to somebody's birthday party, with these balls and a boxed present.
This one is my trophey for the cool #AlphabetHunt challenge I am taking part in. Current week has the letter 'V', so I am looking after intresting stuff starting from letter V. This is what I've got today. Not sure yet if it will go to the final post or not -- thats always a last-minute decisions.
And the last one, truly a highlight of the day for me.
I captured this in my own yard, when I almost came home. I even had to unholster my camera back from the rucksack, as the scene I witnessed was shiny brilliant! This man is collecting the rain water, to use it further for hands-washing! "The economy must be economical!" (с)
f--g brilliant, isnt it? Ok, that was the last one.
Thanks for walking with mee, see you next time.
Надеюсь, вам было приятно прогуляться со мной по улицам Петербурга!
All images taken with Canon 5D + Sigma 150mm
location: St.Petersburg, Russia
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more awesoem street shots, I hate using an umbrella and have bene caught in the rain many times as well, and had to keep my camera under my jacket, I don't mind getting wet but cant let the camera get wet
Thanks for joining Wednesday Walk :)
TNKS, great you enjoy my trophis. 99% of these are one-takes made blindly, without any long aiming and composing the frame, but damn! I am proud of the results very much. a living bouquet of citylife, indeed. cheers, and a !BEER for you.
I must try to do some candid street shots it’s an area I am not so comfortable with maybe shooting from the hip I will find easier
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'from the hip'? I didnt get this part. does it mean 'from a distance'?..
yes, i am in the same boat - always feel shy and speak with my own voices in the head instead of shamelessly click the trigger! :P
Having issues doing replies today trying hear on Ecency to see if it works
Shooting from the hip I meant with my camera down low and aiming from guess not lifting it up to my eye and be so obvious taking photos
forgot to say, thank you for the tips!
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I loved doing this walk with you, we have seen very interesting images, I also think like you, I love to see the leaves on the ground when autumn comes, that man practiced to collect water, and the watermelons made my mouth water. I appreciate that you let us know these beautiful photos
have a wonderful night
o! thank you very much for the kind words, glad you enjoyed the visuals.
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that looks exquisite, thank you very much for these delicious images
have happy dreams
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I'm trying to decide which is my favourite one, but it's too hard to decide they are all so good!
Isn't it funny, your Wednesday walks are full of people and mine are landscapes and I actually wait for the people to get out of my shot before I take it!!!
Mind you, it's so cold here again at the moment and we're still on lockdown for another few weeks, so I am taking advantage of being able to get my shots without people because very soon, lockdown is going to be over, its going to be really hot and there will be people everywhere, so i will never be able to get my 'clean' shots again- atleast not like it is now....
Great walk and thanks so much for sharing!
I look for ward to your walk next Wednesday. 😃
I totally see your position, and what can I say? on one hand it is correct on other wrong... well, maybe wrong is not a proper word to use here.
it all depends! thats it. the general thing is, that folks in a frame makes it better. their appearance momentarily develops / provides a new dimension to your photo. Imagine: you took a photo of an old half-rotten apple shed. well, its just a shed! nothing too much intrested. but suddenly, an old man with a pipe.. or shovell... came in, and you take the same picture but theres a folk's figure in the frame - blurry, not in a focus, but still. you made a shed's portrait in environment, in a context of human living, human environment.
same example with urban cityscapes... you may take a photo of a nice door / doorway, but it will be not so much intresting, too plain, too less-dimentional and senseless (except of showing Just A Nice Door - and nothing more!) adding a human figure or a few - somewhere in a corner, at a background - rushing away to the frame boundaries - changes everything, changes your impression of a photo, benefits to it a lot.
you should try it! you may take a double shots ('clean' ones, and mor eor less ruined with small crowds in a frame ). well, this aforesaid is mainly implied to a streetphoto jenre, ofc. Any folks figures, wires, cars and other 'unwanted extras' will not benefit for the same 'nice door' image, for example, if you take a photo for an art catalogue, and such. so, talking about landscapes... landscapes with and without people, are different things, and each is good jenre, and in its own right!
ufff. thats it. sorry if I am too verbose this time.
THX a lot for your feedback, you are very welcome next Wednesday to my blog... and anytme at all, sure thing. I like to post my fave picture of the day (the best part of today's captures' to Picture A Day community... let me recommend it to you, too:
https://peakd.com/c/hive-127238
I like to preserve time. Those maybe not great captures if you look at any of them, but when they go together, they sum up some zeitgeist, they turn into a reportage of everyday life of the city - and became much more valuable like this bouquet. thats my attitude to it, and why I love the #wednesdaywalk so much. its not about the architecture and beautiful cityscapes and places of intrest at all.
:P
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No you are absolutely right, there's nothing wrong with what either of us do- we each see the world- the images in a different way.
We each see beauty in what we see. I would see the beauty in the shed alone, but then I can also see another dimension of beauty when the man comes into the shed.
I have tens of thousands of photos with humans in them, so it's nice to be able to get a shot of the same places and see the core layer of the beauty in the scene itself without any human distractions, aswell as seeing features in the street, in the architecture, whatever it may be, that you wouldn't normally see when a crowd of people is covering it up.
I'm also loving seeing the implied mystery and intrigue and a 'blank canvas' to and see that's the thing- I love architecture and the immense diversity of it.
Architecture tells a story of ages, cultures, trends, socio-ecomic backgrounds, the history of the place and the changes that have happened not only through out the area a whole, but also the buildings themselves and the people that have been through them and in the areas.
So isn't it great that we each see beauty in what we see and that's what makes us good photographers- our ability to capture what we percieve as beauty and all of unique perspectives of beauty- after all, as they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder....
And soon, we are going to be out of lockdown, physical changes are being made right now to these streetscapes (as I've been witnessing the last few days walking around) and humans by the literal tens of thousands are going to be flocking to the streets again, so this is a rare opportunity to capture my home like this.
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Прекрасный репортаж. А я вижу, что и солнышко проглядывало. :)
не, не было. в трамвае если - то это кажущность, на саамом деле снаружи гнусно и темно. а мужик на фоне арбузов, там да, солнце осталось от предыдущего дня :)
ааа, так вот он остаток солнца :)
Interesting to see the streets of St. Petersburg - thanks for sharing!
glad you like my streetphoto bouquet, @porters. !BEER to go long with it :)
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BEER.I loved your Wednesday Walk!
meowww!
It's like I was walking with you ... Captured moments, they put me on the streets Dog .. I enjoyed walking with you 🤗
You really like every photo to be perfect.
My favorite is the last, so well captured moment ...💞
Have a wonderful day and weekend @qwerrie ☀️☀️☀️
@tatdt, перенесу сюда свой комментарий
потому что я подошел и спросил его прямым текстом
--ЭТО ВЫ ПИТЬЕВУЮ ВОЖДУ СОБИРАЕТЕ?
--нет, ответил сосед, это для мытья рук.
он на самом деле типа сторож-дежурный по двору ночью, и может ему проще там по-быстрому набрать воды чем подниматься к себе до квартиры и туда-сюда носить. дальше я уже не стал уточнять детали, и так достаточно было радости что такой омент ухватил.. вот что значит оказаться в нужное время в нужном месте! пройди я на 5 минут раньше или позже - ничего бы не увидел.
а вчера на том же месте стал свидетелем как рядом с детской площадкой для группы детского сада две тетки изображали мухомора и поганку. я сперва подумал что они "осень" и опять таки набрался наглости переспросить. тут и выяснилось что я угадал очень отдаленно. но сфоткать дальнейший хеппенинг не удалось, я в тот день вообще вышел из дома, не перезарядив батарейку, хыыы. такие дела...
I do love the unswept leaves, unclean is cool sometimes 😀
Every man should think like him and a country will progress in no time.
Loved to take a walk to the streets of Russia with you @qwerrie 😊
I just have a small question and asking frankly to you as a friend , You have tasken so many public photos of so many people in this post. Do they cooperate when you take the shots? I'm asking because this is another contest I'm looking forward to participate in the future.
ha! thats a key question, actually... the answer is NO.
they do not cooperate. I can talk more and more about this situation, but 1st, why you ask?.. the #wednesdaywalk challenge is very cool, ofc do join without any doubts. but you are not obliged necessarily to take photos of people around you, to fit your post to the challenge - am I right, @tattoodjay? you may take pictures of anything you see, when you are out, anything intresting that attracts you / attracted you in the certain 10, 15, 30 minutes of walk, be it architecture, sunset, or flowers.
personally I prefer streetphoto, and folks are the key element of streetphoto. and Russian folks - lets face it strait - isnt a great option for doing streetphoto. most of them are strictly suspicions (instead of being cooperative!) the most often one can hear a question 'why do you take a picture of me, on what purpose? dont do that, I dont want to! especially if you gonna put it on the web'. so, I just dont ask them, and most of the time, I try to take pics staying unnoticed. (unstaged pics also turn out better - for an obvious reason, if you ask if you may shoot, and get a permission, the person stops doing what he / she was doing, and will start posing - which momentarily turn your streetphoto of city / street life into a stage photo of posing model... most probably). so, best option is to make a momentary capture when you suddenly see something intresting, in one take, max 2 takes... and using a telephoto lens (like, 200, 300mm) is very helpful in such situation. Recently, I walk out with 150mm lens, which isnt ideal, but if i do fast shots more or less I stay unnoticed. At least if I do not aim for long, and restrict myself to one take, instead of 2-3 takes.
ps. Even a smartphone can be used for streetphoto. You may take pictures in the city staying unnoticed with smartphone - depending on what you will shoot. Folks at the shops, kidz at the playground, folks coming after watching movies - they are very into their own inner thoughts, focused on some certain things, and less tend to give their attention to the outside things (i.e. you!), which is helpful too.
Thats it. Hope my thoughts were of an intrest to you.
I asked out of curiosity to be honest :D
I'm so much grateful @qwerrie for your kind explanation. This has cleared a lot of my doubts regarding street photography and I will definitely take some tips mentioned in it.
Yes, with a smartphone this is also possible and I think I'm going to participate in this coming Wednesday walk for the very first time. I was a little doubtful at first but your words have boosted me literally :))
Thank you once again!
no problems!
I feeded your curiocity and feel happy about that :P
feel free to alert me in the post, I dont check my feedback on a regular basis (simply have no time to, even with having only 100 friends in the list). so, definitely miss a lot of good content.
Sure @qwerrie , Wish you a great day :)
good day was yesterday - sunny and dry, I grabbed camera and walked outside. today is rain, rain, rain, rain. I didnt go outside at all. but thank you for best wishes. it was a great exceptional day cause I grabbed some miraculous pictures! from internet. they are not mine, hehe. so i will not share them on the blockchain.
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Yes you are right for the Wednesday walk the photos can be of anything you see on a walk doesn't have to be people or any particularly subject
pps. wet unswept leaves giving a little smell of decay -- this is a tasty smell of Autumn. glad you enjoyed walking with me, mate! - lets celebrate with !BEER the fact that we've seen the back of another black day!
Yea, why not... Thank you :))
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you are too kind! thanks a lot, its a pleasure for amateur me to hear such feedback. the last one (collecting water) is my fave here.