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    cfairfreeze reacted to larsleion in Streetphotography (open thread)   
    I'm loving almost all of these pictures you've been posting, Peter. Great shots! Inspiring  
     
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    cfairfreeze reacted to Koreashooter in Streetphotography (open thread)   
    This photo was just published as a Daily Dozen over at National Geographic Yourshot!
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    cfairfreeze reacted to telliott477 in Streetphotography (open thread)   
    Jakarta street

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    cfairfreeze reacted to DerBielefelder in Streetphotography (open thread)   
    My decision for black and white has nothing to do with the question of how the camera reproduces colors. It is a creative decision. And that has fallen in this case in favor of a monochrome reproduction. Others may decide differently. To answer your question: Fuji cameras have an excellent color reproduction in most cases. But that is no reason to photograph everything in color. When I use color, I do it very specifically. In these pictures, everyone can easily imagine that the costumes were colorful. But for my intention when I took and processed the photographs the colors were just not relevant.  
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    cfairfreeze reacted to Sidtw in Streetphotography (open thread)   
    I went to a traditional community feast in Yilan, Taiwan, a few days ago. Lovely bokeh, and yeah... the pork tasted awesome. Shot with an X-Pro1, 35mm @f1.4, 1/150, ISO800.

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    cfairfreeze reacted to sadaqat in Streetphotography (open thread)   
    Foam Museum, Amsterdam


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    cfairfreeze reacted to sadaqat in Streetphotography (open thread)   
    Thank you for your comments. I fully appreciate your point of view and when you wrote "Dislike" you did press a virtual dislike button. The intention is not be disrespectful. The culture we live in, dreaming to be slender is a very positive thing and even to tell somebody that You will look great if you trim down a bit is considered very normal. So respecting your point of view, I will not change anything , the title or the picture as your norms don't work the same way in every country. Thanks for being honest with your opinion.
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    cfairfreeze reacted to Aswald in Streetphotography (open thread)   
    I don't know why but people get offended about almost everything nowadays.......perhaps the truth hurts sometimes and yeah, it's always easier to make it someone else's problem rather than our own. IMO, the title and the pic is very powerful. Definitely thought provoking...whether it is acceptable or not depends on who and where you are.
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    cfairfreeze reacted to citral in Streetphotography (open thread)   
    II wouldn't say that. I'd say the title is very unfortunate, not because I am shocked but because I firmly believe a phtograph's interpretation should be up to the viewer, it's not the role of the photographer to tell people how they should interpret it. Something like Street Name - Year would be much better imo. I don't like titles that are oriented because they seem to imply the viewer is not intelligent enough to make a link on his own about what's happening, so he needs the help of the pohotgrapher to explain him what it's about.
     
    Now if one discards the title, he can imagine anything. Would it be called "dreaming about fine lingerie" people would react differently. I know a man from poland who would find this woman a bit underweight. It's all a matter of personal perception and interpretation.
     
    I would argue that it's really a shame that some people think one should not photograph fat people because it's disrepectful, or children because it's creepy.
     
    If the viewer has issues in his head and thinks immediatly about sex when seing children, or about morbidity when seing overweight people it is entirely HIS problem, not the photographer's and certainly not mine. I don't mind my children being photographed because they are part of an interresting scene or just because they are beautiful.
     
    Why could only beautiful slim women, flowers, sunsets and men in suits be photographed? How is that any more sane and democratic than photographing everyone, the homeless included?
     
    How is photographing the ass of a beautiful woman next to the rear of a race car and call it "nice bottoms" less exploitative than to photograph a not-so-slim one next to a scrawny mannequin and call it "slender dreams"? It is not. It's all about perception and street photography is often about juxtapositions of things that work in the picture without necessarily having anything to do in real life (here we can't even be sure that the woman is looking at the mannequin due to the angle, that made the picture work in the first place)
     
    The title is unfortunate but the picture does not discredit street photography which is exploiting life to make interresting pictures imo. Somehow nobody has risen a concern about the '"out of sync" picture capturing a woman that one could depict as being probably anorexic.
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