Krämerstraβe Aachen, Early evening

            I decided to try some street photography today using my Samyang 85mm f/1.4 lens. Its not the most obvious choice and is certainly not discrete! Also, being manual focus, it is a bit more hit and miss than I would like. However, the tighter field of view, coupled with the shallow depth of field when shooting wide open means that less is in focus than would be if I were using a wide angle lens. This helps to separate the subject from what is going on around them; in this case people walking past a shop that was illuminating them as they passed. Shot at f/1.4 with a shutter speed of 1/640th at ISO 400. Originally posted in colour, but there was a red coat at the top of the street that was just way too distracting ;)

I have recently up-loaded a new version of this image that uses a slightly different workflow. Primarily, the difference is the black and white conversion. I had been using some tinting on many of my monochrome photos to add some warmth, but I subsequently think it detracts form the look of the images. I val also used Affinity Photo on this replacement to remove some unwanted distractions form the scene.

Taken in: Deutschland / Nordrhein-Westfalen / Aachen / Beverau (show map)

Taken on: March 2, 2017

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Camera: 1/640 sec, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/640)
ISO:	400
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
Color Space:	sRGB
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