Street photography: Your favourite galleries

[amarkin]

Does anyone like street photography? What are you favourite galleries and photographers? Please share it if have you something.

I like the work of Tommy Oshima. I don’t know much about him. I saw his work on pbase and flickr; many of his images are simply stunning. He’s a good at creating interesting compositions. He’s using all types of cameras and lenses: film, digital, RF, digital RF, and MF. Mostly, RF imho. And has some lovely lenses from Leica for low light photography.

Here are the URL addresses to his galleries:

http://www.rayon-vert.com
http://www.pbase.com/tommyoshima
http://flickr.com/photos/tommyoshima

[asaroha]

Those works are just

I wish one day I can shoot like that

Great find! Thanks for sharing.

[Ronza]

I came across his stuff a while ago, its stunning photography. His composition, the colour, the timing...

Looking at his shots, its been a solid inspiration for the stuff I do.

[amarkin]

It can be inspirational.

He uses blur, light fall off, strong shadows that might be considered as imperfections by some people, to achieve artistic effects. The colours are rich and soft, and the composition is his strength.
He usually can capture the atmosphere on the picture such as this one:


http://k43.pbase.com/g3/90/582590/2/53065035.68831368_a11f9cf45b_o.jpg

[amarkin]

Or this one:

http://k41.pbase.com/g2/90/582590/2/65720166.vPxS9gx2.jpg

[Yi-P]

Wow, thats amazing.


If some of you may notice, his portraits are mostly taken with a Leica M6 and the 50mm f/1.0 lens

[asaroha]

Wow, thats amazing.


If some of you may notice, his portraits are mostly taken with a Leica M6 and the 50mm f/1.0 lens

I blame the gear for his talent

[meicw]

Thanks for the links. Truely inspirational stuff.

Regards
meicw

[Grev]

Not sure if he's using a tripod or not, but how does he get sharp images at night time using an 50mm f4 lens? And bigger formats are easier to blur also...

Is he using like... 25000 iso film or something?

[wongyboi]

You dont need good gear to yield great results. Example -
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/26329552/
$30 Holga

Most of the X-pan shots are f4 and the film he uses is 400ISO which at night with some light could be achieved by pushing the film in the lab.

If you havent already check out:
Chris Weeks: who has close relations with Steven Gandy from cameraquest.com and does photos for celebrities but also street photography.
http://cweeks.deviantart.com/
His blog:
http://barbecuediguana.com/

Or visit rangefinder.com
Most people associate rangefinders (mainly leica) with street photography.

This is also a link to the article he wrote along with other artists on DeviantArt regarding Street Photography - For the Purist
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/38038974/

Cheers

[Grev]

^ I know you from the photographers channel already.

It's not so much about the gear, just the film. But then when I enlarged his photos quite a few of them were blurred.

[wongyboi]

Yeah I was surprise to see that some of his shots were blurred too and some were a bit soft considering the leica glass. But if its from the blod then I think the quality is intentionally lowered, it seems that way.

[amarkin]

Here's another interesting gallery with many great photographs inside:
http://www.nonphotography.com/gallery.html

I did not have a chance to see all of them yet. There're too many.