Street Photography with Lukasz Palka from  

Thank you so much!! :)

Why are people so obsessed with the size of the camera?!?! Who cares? Isn't all about the photos??

@@EYExplore it’s not the size, it’s what you do with it 😏

He is right i feel it to, but the most thing i don't like from this video is it feels so distance, Samuel i know u want some room but u think ur vloger style is better its more personal and i feel like i am with u while you doing street photography. Best wish for ur channel

To be honest I shot with a D3 and Voigtlanders 40mm |f2 when first starting street. I now shoot with Nikon z50 and adapted Voits 40mm and 56mm |1.4 and Fuji Xpro3 w/ 18mm |1.4 and 27mm |2.8 but there are times I desire a bigger body because I do have big hands and its very comfortable. The Z 9 is tempting me tho!!!

@@bigboi36 I shot with D3/voigt40 too!! I have so many nice memories of that combo. I wish my D3 was still in working order. :)

Glad to hear you enjoyed it! All cinematography credit goes to Axel from EYExplore :)

I felt the force flowing through my body immediately.

@@SamuelStreetlife 😂 now just needa make a bazooka video also with that jacket

The clack was always from the D850. The Z9 was silent. And I used to use a D4, though I have rented a D850 a few times for jobs. :)

I'm down like a clown! :)

Thank you for commenting Herbert :) Glad you like them.

Too boxy. I think 2:3 is perfection.

Shutter therapy.

When my buddy was convinced he wanted to become a street photographer, I came along once. First thing he did when we parked was pop the trunk and take a shot of vodka haha

Axel is the man! :)

We both edited them the way we like it :)

Thanks! :)

Thanks. I am a random unkempt guy. I don't think I'm creepy though.

unkept white guy in the us?!?! oh my god i would be running for help!

Selfmade!

Axel, from @eyexplore! :)

Good picture too

Well, it's because people are gambling in there, so they wanna protect their clients privacy I guess. And they're probably right, it's private property so they can set the rules, but if you can see it from the street without much effort then it's fair game. :)

:D

To quote the Bard.

Yes I did!

@@SamuelStreetlife, thank you. I haven't used 'Auto ISO' very often. I noticed that in the photo of the woman and the baby that your shutter speed was 1/2500. That must be a mistake?

Me too! :)

@@Gravitys-NOT-a-force 1/2500 is correct. :)

@@EYExplore , hmm...that's seems awfully fast for an evening-light photo. You set that shutter speed (1/2500 sec.) yourself? I've never used that shutter speed in my life. :-)

Thanks for watching 🙂

Hey thanks for this interesting question! I started using 5:4 on my D850 in the beginning of this year because I discovered that I can display the 5:4 aspect ratio in the viewfinder. I loved the idea of challenging my sense for composition by trying a more rectangular format. I haven't 100% commited to it yet because I still use my little GR cameras that can't shoot in 5:4 so I find myself switching between 5:4 and 3:2 a lot. Whenever I use 3:2 for a while I find 5:4 to be too limiting. Whenever I use 5:4 for a while I find 3:2 to be too cinematic :) But I do love 5:4 because it creates a calmness to the images. It makes the images look more like paintings in my opinion. And subjects can be placed in the middle without the frame feeling empty. In terms of lens choices for this format, I agree that a 28mm or 35mm is really good for 5:4. 28mm will feel more like 35mm because the edges that most often have some distortion are cut off by the 5:4 ratio. Therefore images feel intimate but not wide angle. I am using a 40mm on my D850 a lot and I love that it is a little wider than 50mm. But with the 5:4 aspect ratio the images feel more like 50mm to me. I personally prefer the look or feel I am getting with 3:2 images shot on the 40mm compared to the 5:4 shots with the 40mm. But when using 28mm and 40mm simultaneously they complement each other very welll. I want to experiment with it a little more and maybe I will talk about it in a future video. So far I am still learning how to make good use of it.

@@SamuelStreetlife An eventual video about it would be great. I totally agree with what you're saying about calmness...I've been looking at medium format film cameras quite a bit lately because they often shoot in these taller rectangles, and the word I've been using in my head is "stately." I have a 50mm 1.2 and the really tasty 28mm 2.8 AIS lens with my FE body, so I'm very tempted to get into one of these suddenly-quite-cheap D850s and embrace the manual-focus mirror-slap lifestyle. I started on a Canon A-1 in the 80s, so the focus ring doesn't scare me! Thanks for responding!

To be fair we wouldn't do that normally when the camera is not around us : ) Purpose of this video was to have a conversation while also taking some photos together. And we wanted to show how different the cameras and our visions of the scenes are. But yes, ideally we would hang out in one area and part ways then come back together to move to the next location.

Mine is a messenger bag from Squalo Works.

We should make a parody of Island Boys hahaha. :)

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Thanks! :)

Awesome thanks man!

:)

I don't think that's fair. Also, Premiere kinda screws up the final look of photos when adding them to a video, which I lazily don't correct for (it doesn't happen to every photo). In the end it's just different editing. Sam went for a more natural look, and I tend to edit for a high-contrast vivid look. I think if we did a SOOC JPG comparison they would not look that different. :)

@@EYExplore for clarity, I wasn't saying the photographs taken with the d850 look worse, I was just saying that to my eye when watching the video the actual files themselves did not look anywhere near as good. I appreciate the video compression, looking at them through the medium of youtube, etc., and also the difference in editing styles, but I can only comment on what I can see. I don't think a SOOC jpeg comparison would be particularly helpful, because that would just be a comparison of SOOC jpegs and not the 'quality' of the raw files.

Wow! I never thought of that. People in Japan usually tell me I look like Rick from Walking Dead. I dunno... I prefer Hawkeye. :)

@@EYExplore lol... your accent and mannerisms are probably a big part of it. Yeah, guessing MASH probably isn't a thing in Japan.

@@EYExplore Your accent and mannerisms probably have a lot to do with it. Yeah, I'm guessing MASH isn't really a thing in Japan.

what led you to that lmao

@@allen.9 As it sways when he walks😐

@@zsoltdudinszky2900 i wish i never asked

If it works it works

@@pers4855 At what level though ?

@@MikeKleinsteuber at any level if it gets you the shots your looking for. Seems like you have a beef with Nikon. Nikon has been around for decades creating memories and making people happy like myself

@@pers4855 I don't like the digital Nikon look or files. Each to their own...

@@MikeKleinsteuber oh ok that's your opinion and I respect it

It‘s actually the opposite. We wouldn‘t take pictures of people if we don‘t care about them. But not on an individual level. Yes it was an easy and somewhat sneaky shot but in the end he is part of citylife and Street Photography celebrates life on the streets. Me personally I take photographs of people (it‘s more about the overall scene) because they reflect the current state of society. The fashion, the tech they use, jobs, activities they do in public. That‘s all worth photographing. I‘m sure Lukasz has the same mind set. Look up Greg Girard and see what he has photographed in Asian countries for example. It‘s all photographs from past decades with lot‘s of seemingly mundane and uninteresting people but because he took these photographs at a time foreign to us (because we were born in the late 80’s) his images are very valuable to us.

@@SamuelStreetlife Wow, didn't know about Greg Girard. I have a lot to look at now, thanks :D

@@SamuelStreetlife btw you're my favorite photographer

@@julien.2573 Absolute master! :)

It's not about caring / not caring. It's about mindfully accepting the world as it is and sharing that perspective with others. I didn't put the man there. He was there, I accepted that, and made a picture. I don't really know why exactly I took the picture at the deepest level of my soul. I can only say that the drama of the moment was interesting. But anyway there is an urge to do so and I just go with it. I apply this to everything I shoot. It is there, it catches my interest, so I shoot. I do make exceptions if I feel the act of photographing might harm someone. Which is why I said in this case the anonymity of the subject removes some of the ethical considerations. But I've definitely refrained from taking photos of people in way that might compromise their dignity. Or, I did take the photo but never published it. So, I am just capturing and sharing those scenes that interest me for all kinds of reasons. Maybe that will have value some day, or maybe it is a big waste of time and energy. I really don't know.