Oct 212012
Since I am working on a new Paris book, I have been going through my whole archive lately. And somehow I hardly ever went back further than 2009 as most of my pictures then were in B&W. I did today and found some pictures I had not looked at for a long time. These are 2008 pictures, that is basically my first year shooting street photography. My lesson : always shoot raw and keep the originals somewhere. Indeed I would have loved to reprocess these pictures in colors. (click on pictures for high res)
All pictures taken with Epson R-D1. I can't remember the lenses though probably a mix of Jupiter 3 and 35mm Skopar
Really great photographs Yanick. May we know why you switch from BW to colors ?
Several reasons : Paris is B&W was a bit overdone in my opinion. But more importantly, our eyes see in colors, don't they ?
And also, why you don't have the original raw in color ?
Nice pictures, as usual….
I deleted them by mistake. I didn't really see the value to back them up at the time …
Excellent! l love them. I hope to capture Paris street scenes in early December. Will you be there during that time?
Unluckily, my new life in Argentina will have started already.
What lovely pictures – especially the one with the hatted chap! Really love your early Paris work!
Thanks GWG. I also like a lot that hatted chap, I thought he represented so well Paris.
Ah, that dancing frame. Simply stunning. Wouldn't mind a nice fairly large print of it >_<.
And to be honest I really like your B&W tones and am not sure if they would be that much different in color. Ofcourse if you wanted to implement them into your upcomin book then it's a shame if they screw up the overall theme by being B&W cause they are all stellar frames.
Indeed, mixing B&W with color is never a very good idea. This being said, I think only the woman with the scarf would have fitted the lyrical theme of the book ;)