Topic: Brooklyn nights

[hookstrapped]

Minolta TC-1 in its "night portrait" mode, aka fill-flash, with Tri-X.  When I first got the camera I took a pic of Satish just playing around in this mode and discovered, OK this has some possibilities. I go walking around Brooklyn at night and people don't notice or don't care I'm shooting flash (the first pic is someone I know so that doesn't count).

http://www.hookstrapped.com/album/brooklyn-nights#1

[MrclSchprs]

Wow! Wonderful mood, movements and lack of sharpness. Nice, very nice!

[MacArron]

I must say I like them very much, being the second and the fourth my favourites. Why? I don't really know, because they are not sharp and they show some movement due to the slow speed, but the framing is very attractive indeed.

Nice shots.

[ManuelL]

Really like the look of these shots. My favourite is the one with the Richard Branson look alike.

[02Pilot]

I like the set. It's an interesting use of one of those "modes" I would probably have ignored.

[Adam Doe]

Nice! Love all the movement.

[hookstrapped]

added a couple more

[Terry]

Eminently cool.

[irv_b]

What a great set. There is a real sense of  being in the moment when you lloook at these-excellent stuff.

[rpavich]

I really like these, the double exposures give them energy and keep them interesting.

[imagesfrugales]

Awesome pictures, I should shoot much more in the dark und in the rain. Very inspiring and again: great pics.

[hookstrapped]

Thanks!

added a couple more

[Terry]

Nice edge to this series.  Some of those look a bit risky--did you get chased and/or assaulted?

[hookstrapped]

Nice edge to this series.  Some of those look a bit risky--did you get chased and/or assaulted?

For the most part, people are surprisingly oblivious. It helps to have a tiny camera with a 28mm lens that people assume is not pointed at them on streets where flashes of light are par for the course. I only had one encounter where I was called out (didn't use the pic) but it ended fine.

[hookstrapped]

My little essay around this series got picked up by Petapixel

http://petapixel.com/2016/08/15/love-street-photography-might-hate-even/

and is in Medium/Vantage
https://medium.com/vantage/brooklyn-by-night-bc86abde7704

Apparently I did not move Petapixel readers who were, in a sense, the target of the essay

[Ed Wenn]

Yep, these are really great. Thanks for posting the series here. I am a huge fan of the "night shot + flash" combo that you get on some point and shooters. It's great for adding movement and flava (TM) to night shots where you would otherwsie just have a static flas-heavy picture. I used to use it with my wife's old Canon Sureshot some years ago (examples from a 2003 anti-war march included below) and more recently with the Pentax Espio that I bought on Miller's recommendation (attached image at the end of the post....unfortunately, it's not a great photo, but you get the idea).


Anti-Bush Demonstration, London, 2003 by Ed Wenn, on Flickr


Anti-Bush Demonstration, London 2003 by Ed Wenn, on Flickr

I also tried replicating the effect with an Agfa Isola on bulb in concert with the flash form a digi camera. The process worked just fine, but I never really got round to taking any strong images with it. Here's one of a friend in a restaurant that almost worked:


Rosie by Ed Wenn, on Flickr

[Miller]

Impressed...

[astrobeck]

Nice sets!
That one guy with the blonde hair reminds me a bit of Sir Richard Branson...