Cor e rua

Amo fotografia de rua quer a preto e branco quer a cores e nos ultimos dias tenho andado á procura de cor na cidade. Hoje encontrei o laranja das cortinas do Hotel Vip na rua 5 de Outubro em Lisboa, enquanto esperava pela boleia para mais um serviço. Esperei que passassem pessoas para poder fazer a foto que queria. A minha ideia no local quando fotografei era fazer depois um crop "filete" apenas com as cortinas , o sujeito e o passeio, mas depois de ver a foto no computador as listas pretas e brancas do edificio por cima das cortinas acabei por gostar mais e deixar-las na composição.
Já no carro e num semafero reparei numa rapariga ao telemóvel à porta de uma loja com uma blusa amarela que contrastava bastante com a cor da sua pele, fiz uma foto de longe e a rapariga sorrio para mim, mas ao passar junto a ela pedi ao condutor para parar em frente a ela e voltei a fotografa-la e novamente ela voltou a sorrir para mim. Na composição quis incluir o espelho do carro, pois assim gosto mais.
A minha procura por locais de cor em Lisboa vai continuar...

Not much of News....But still working....

Well its summer and there is not much things happening in Lisbon and I'm not having that much assignments, normally doing just one service a day and nothing really hot as news, only the temperatures in Lisbon. This gives me time to go back to my archive and organize it and look again to old photos.
One of the folders of photos I've been organizing and editing is the one with photos from New York. I went there last December to attend a four days Photography Workshop of Raw Workflow by D65.
I stayed for two weeks and during that time I always carried my camera with me doing thousands of photographs.
In New York streets there is so much diversity of people and cultures, you can find people from all over the world, and I don't mean tourists but people that live there and consider them selfs "locals". I personally think it it one of the most amazing cities in terms of stories and moods. The streets of New York have a unique atmosphere that I tried to capture and transmit in my photographs.
Because I think that these little moments I capture with my camera are history, and of course will never repeat again, I prefer the black and white format.
Here are just a few photos from this period in New York.

©Miguel A. Lopes
©Miguel A. Lopes
©Miguel A. Lopes
©Miguel A. Lopes
©Miguel A. Lopes
©Miguel A. Lopes
©Miguel A. Lopes
©Miguel A. Lopes
©Miguel A. Lopes

Street Sales

In New York you can find everything selling on the streets from Gucci handbags to Rolex Watches, after a day walking in Manhattan, I found this guy selling expensive coats for just twenty dollars, people where crazy, specially women jumping and trying hard to get to the coats because they were selling really fast. Again I recorded the sounds wile I was making the photos. I think you can feel more the scene and almost be there.



©2006 Miguel A Lopes