Yanidel Street Photography

First let me thank all of you that submitted a picture. I think this was a good experience as it let us discover a lot of photographers and their work. 35 photographs were posted and I could not help doing a little analysis of the work submitted. I thought some of you would also be interested to discover the results. By no means it represents the global street photography community, but probably a good view on the readership of this website.

Place where picture was taken :
55% : Europe
20% : North America
12% : Asia
6% : Oceania
2% : Middle East
2% : South America

So Europe is the main stage for street photography. Not so surprising, this is a Western world hobby, right ? ;) Too bad there were so few pictures from other continents, and none from Africa.

Female or Male :
Female : 9%
Male : 91%

Is street photography a male discipline ? Certainly not, even though I think there is definitely a majority of male. Or maybe female street photographers just don’t hang on the internet and spend more time on the streets .

B&W of Color :
B&W : 62%
Color : 38%

I was surprised to see so many B&W submissions. Are the colors of our times not tempting ? Or does street photography have to be in B&W ?

Picture orientation :
Landscape : 69%
Portrait : 17%
Square : 11%
Panoramic : 3%

Since most camera use the 24x36mm format, it isn’t so surprising to see landscape as the favorite orientation. Not that square is not too far from portrait. Who said you should not crop ? ;)

Digital or film :
Digital : 89%
Film : 11%

In some ways sad, but digital has completely taken over. Or maybe film people don’t bother scanning their pictures.

Camera used :
Leica M9 : 31%
Leica M8 : 14%
Leica film : 9%
DSLR : 20%
4/3rds : 9%
P&S : 9%
Xpan : 3%

More than 50% of submission were taken with a Leica M. The best camera for street photography ? There is some of that, but I think this data represents mainly the readers of this website. Indeed, I shoot Leica and write a lot about rangefinders and their use.

This concludes the 2011 favorite series. It will be repeated in the future, maybe in a new format. I hope you enjoyed it and thanks again to all participants. I will end by posting our favorite picture of 2011, the one that someone else took for us. ;)  (click on picture for high res)

Taken on the Great Salt Lake in Bolivia – El Salar

Two more pictures to go and we will conclude with that special section dedicated to readers’ favorite photographs. Let’s head today to London for this shot by Dave Dowding.

Leica M9 with 50mm Summilux Asph

This is what David wrote about his shot :

I was waiting for my daughter at the train station the other day when I spotted this commuter with his young child. It made for a rather funny sight in the rush of Friday night commuters. I love how the 50mm Summilux and isolate the subject from the background the detail is amazing.

Check out David’s Flickr page here http://www.flickr.com/photos/djdstone or his website here http://daviddowding.500px.com

Paris ! Today we visit the City of Lights through this shot by Joao Afonso Ferreira from Portugal taken in November.

NEX-5N+18-55 OSS. PP in Lr3+Nik Color Efex

This is what Joao wrote about his shot :

The picture I am sending it is from a Paris weekend trip to visit Paris Photo. On the day before I made an impulse buy of a NEX-5N camera and it has been a revelation. And truly a welcome and liberating change from my normal DSLR kit. This was shot with the kit lens from my belly ;). As I come from a small town the underground scenes always have some appeal to me. I am now experimenting with old inexpensive reflex MF lenses and I really enjoy it. I may invest in some quality RF lenses in the future (still decidiing my favorite FL!).

Discover Joao's blog at : http://codaque.blogspot.com/

The island of Bali, Indonesia is our host today with this shot taken by Rob Knijn from Holland.

Leica M8 with 35mm Summicron Asph.

This is what Rob wrote about his picture :

I am a long time Leica photographer, but it is my hobby, my profession is making paintings, I'm an artist. Street photography is my main interest, but I can't seem to find the time to go out and about on a regular basis. But then again I also enjoy the street photography of others. Looking in to books and on the internet of course.