A black-and-white street portrait from a doorway.
The frame is mostly posture: face resting on one hand, cigarette held out with the other, body folded into a narrow entrance.
Ricoh GR IV Monochrome. Series: Portraits / Small Dramas. StreetSoul.me
StreetSoul
Black & white street photography. Leica M10 Monochrom + Ricoh GR IV Monochrome. Street, shadow, patience, imperfect light. streetsoul.me
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A black-and-white street portrait from a doorway.
The frame is mostly posture: face resting on one hand, cigarette held out with the other, body folded into a narrow entrance.
Ricoh GR IV Monochrome. Series: Portraits / Small Dramas. StreetSoul.me
Sharing this as a field note rather than a tutorial.
One walk, a lot of weak frames, hard light, bad corners, and the few photographs that survived the edit.
The part I’m interested in is not the heroic idea of “getting the shot”, but the dull, useful work before it: walking, missing, looking again, and cutting most of it away.
Video: https://youtu.be/v-AXCoQT0eA
Shot outside an ice cream shop with the Ricoh GR IV Monochrome.
What interested me was the layering: the older man passing close to the camera, the woman eating ice cream and looking back, the shop lights and menu turning the whole thing into a small public stage.