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Here's another of my street portraits from the 100 Strangers meet up in Shoreditch / Brick Lane. I'm not following any particular chronological order with these pictures and I was very bad in not having anything to make notes with and therefore forgot a lot of names. The couple of glasses of wine in the pub with fellow photographers had noting to do with that, honest!
Anyway I saw Gabriele here sitting at a table with a friend outside a coffee shop in Shoreditch. I loved her hat and thought was keen to see how I could make a background out of a shop window across the street. When I approached to ask I noticed she had a very cool old 35mm SLR with her. A REAL camera. Needless to say she was up for helping out a fellow photographer.
I was still using Arnab's 70-200mm lens. Normally I avoid zooms but I really enjoyed the control I was able to exert over the background with it. I'm glad that I've shot with primes and really got my head around how zooms affect the background though as I think that is essential knowledge.
If you're not sure, and you have access to a couple of different focal length lenses then try this... (don't be put off it you don't get this, it took me ages to get my head around it).
Start on the shortest focal length available, say 18mm. stand someone in the middle of a quiet street, frame them in your view finder about the same as I have Gabriele here, maybe allow a little more space around the top and sides. The take a snap. Then change to the next level up, do the same making absolutely sure to frame your subject in exactly the same position in the view finder, with the same amount of space to the top and sides. Use the grid lines in the view finder if you have them. Then move up to the next level and repeat till you've used the whole range of lenses. Say for example, 24mm, 35mm, 50mm, 85mm, 135mm, 200mm, 300mm.
You don't have to make world class portraits and it doesn't matter if you use primes or one or two zoom lenses. What's important is to frame the subject exactly the same.
The put the pictures up on a screen and scroll through them. Look at the background in each picture.
So if you want to know what happens, I'm not telling. Try it, you'll learn better that way :-) Or if you really want to cheat look on Youtube where you'll find a number of people who've done the heavy lifting for you.
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This picture is #26 in my 4th round of the 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
Walking around Soho with Arnab I'd seen a cool brown wall that I'd thought would make a good background. But no suitable candidates were on hand so I filed it away. Three blocks later I saw Margan with a large group of friends and the pieces clicked together.
I love the stars on her back and wanted to try to include that in the picture which is why I chose the image with this pose. In truth I have a couple of technically better images of her but this is the one that I had in mind when I first saw her so in it goes.
Margan is from Turkey and has been living in London for 3 years and is loving it here.
I've not been including all of my street portraits in the 100 Strangers group as I feel like many of them are about me doing what I do and enjoying the process, but not stretching myself in new directions. However this one was always intended to be a little different and for the project. I have conflicting views for myself on trying new things vs doing what I know I enjoy and can do. So I do both.
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After a splendid day in Milan i came back to my hometown, not crowded like Milano... but anyway i was able to find interesting stranger for the project ! Here Silvia...
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I want to suggest who is at the start of the project it's much better using a reflector, especially in cloudy days (as Arnab taught me !) ... Here I used a 80cm gold reflector but the first shot without it it's completely different.... if someone is interested to see it, I might post here... the first image of Silvia.
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This picture is #45/100 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
Ok so this was one of those small world moments but I did not know it at the time...
Urban Scot and I had met up last weekend and went out onto Portobello Road, mainly catching up, but also with the hope of taking some portraits of strangers.
Lucy was my second portrait of the day and the reason I asked her was of her style. Her hat game was strong :-)
Lucy with her beaming smile agreed to my request.
and with Peter's help (reflector duty), we took a series of portraits down a side road where it was a little quieter. There were more options for a variety of portraits.
Chatting with her I found out that she worked in TV and was just meeting friends that weekend as well as chilling out in the market.
So where does the small world come in? Well, my wife was looking at her cover image on instagram and noticed a Mate cup and asked me if she was Argentinian (drinking Mate is a very popular cultural pastime in Argentina). I said that judging by her name and accent that she wasn't.
Looking a little deeper into her instagram page, it turned out that she had spent some time in Buenos Aires. What was even more interesting was that she not only knew, but is good friends with a group of ladies who did Street Photography courses in Buenos Aires. My love of street photography and, more importantly, street portraits came directly as a result of these courses.
It's encounters like these that make me love getting out on the streets and engaging with them for this project.
Thanks very much for this portrait. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the
100 Strangers Flickr Group Page
Connect with me on instagram where my handle is @arnabkghosal
or visit my website
I really enjoyed shooting Lisa Bent's inaugural event under her "Self Central" Banner which is all about strengthening, empowering and transforming individuals from the inside out.
I managed to grab Lisa away from her duties for a little while and was able to get some great portraits of her. This one I particularly liked because I think it embodies the inner strength that Self Central is all about.
Thanks Lisa for an inspirational talk.
Strobist info - Nissin Di866 Flash in a 28 inch apollo softbox camera right. This matched the window light coming in from the window also camera right but gave better lighting on her face
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FRIENDSHIP
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What a wonderful journey that is!! Two random people from completely different faces of lives meet..
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Fight with you like cats n dogs..
Love you like the birds
Support you like a pillar
Fall on you like a sandbag.
Tease you in front of everyone..
Laugh their asses off when you are embarrassed..
But fight for you like Arnab Goswami when someone else laughs..
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A friend and a true one is many a times much more than family..
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Cherish them
Love them
Support them
Apologize to them
Never loose touch!!!
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It was such a please to meet Mo on an awesome Sunday afternoon just of Brick Lane.
He was chilling on one of the side streets and was about to get a tattoo of a smiley face.
He was here for the weekend for London Pride but he was visiting from Switzerland. He had a really enjoyable time in London.
Mo kindly agreed to the portrait when I approached him and we came away with 3 different shots and this head on was easily my favourite.
Thank you Mo for sharing a bit of your time with me yesterday. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the
100 Strangers Flickr Group Page
Connect with me on instagram where my handle is @arnabkghosal
or visit my website
After I had taken Sharzad's portrait it was time for Sophie's. She was wearing her shades as she said she wasn't photogenic. I asked her to remove the shades which then revealed her stunning eyes. I laughed to myself (and I am sure Colin did the same) as I went about taking her portrait. The set up was the same as Sharzad's portrait which you can find here and is also detailed below.
www.flickr.com/photos/arnabkghosal/18418428930/in/datepos...
Thanks very much for being a part of my project Sophie. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the
100 Strangers Flickr Group Page
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As always constructive criticism is appreciated.
Camera and Strobist info:
Nikon D610, 85mm at 1.8, SS 1/2500 and ISO 100
Nissin D1866 flash with a shoot through umbrella camera left
Triggered using the Yongnuo 622N tigger and flash controller
Hope everyone is enjoying a good end to the weekend. Recently i had the pleasure of taking portraits for the talented singer Albert Man and am pleased to be able to share them now.
Check it out on www.pledgemusic.com/albertman
Strobist Info: One Di866 Nissin Flash camera left and behind him in a apollo 28 inch soft box
Credit for this portrait actually goes to my friends who firstly discovered him in the bar we were at in Soho and secondly for persuading me to put down my drink and approach him.
I was out for drinks for a friends birthday and decided to take my camera with me and head out a little earlier in the hope of finding a stranger. To be honest my heart wasn't completely in it as I have a concept in mind that I want to try out but was struggling to find someone suitable.
So I gave up and joined my friends for a catch up. When they first pointed Rocky out to me I knew he would be a cracking stranger, but I wanted to take a great portrait of Rocky and not just a snapshot. After debating it in my head I decided to try outside even though we were beginning to lose light. I took my friend Elena out with me to see if we could find a suitable location which wasn't full of people drinking (it was a lovely evening in London). I was specifically looking for either a plane background or just some colour that would match with him, and i found it.
Rocky was out with clients but when I approached him he readily agreed. I took him to my chosen location, got him positioned with a reflector and took out a few shots which I came out nicely.
Rocky is part of the family fashion brand Year Zero London (www.yearzerolondon.com) and it looks like it has had some very famous visitors in the past. He is Italian although i honestly thought he could be Indian at first. I told him that I had forgotten all my Italian... in Italian. I didn't want to keep him from his clients too long so we both went back to the bar and rejoined our tables.
As we were finishing up in the bar, I thanked Rocky once again and he cheekily said about using the magic of photoshop to make him look good. Well Rocky apart from a few flyaway hairs there wasn't much to do, you looked awesome already.
Thanks for being a part of my project Rocky. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the
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As always any critique welcome
Street Portrait style headshot of the wonderfully talented actress and voice talent.
Shot with a Godox AD200 in a 43 inch octabox feathered down the street
So I had a photoshoot planned later for today but was keen to get out on a hot English summer bank holiday weekend to see what I could get.
Going early on a Sunday can reap its benefits because you may find some of the people waiting around before they go to work. Ingrid was one of them as she enjoyed the buskers performance before she went to work.
Having seen her wonderful style I knew I had to approach her but I needed a background that would match her style. Luckily there was a SNOG store nearby with its bold pink colour, the perfect foil for her blue dress.
Ingrid was more than happy to have her portrait taken and her style suddenly made sense as she is studying fashion. Originally from Rome she is now based in London as also works in a nearby jewellers.
Thank you Ingrid for being so kind to let me take a portrait of you.
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the
100 Strangers Flickr Group Page
Connect with me on instagram where my handle is @arnabkghosal
or visit my website
As always constructive criticism is appreciated.
I had the pleasure this weekend of shooting a good friend and fellow photogeapher Rupert. His street and music photography is awesome. In fact one of his images came second in the Iconic Images Competition for Canon with his photograph from the G8 riots (you can see a hint of it in the background on the left).
Yolanda's question for Rupert was "What advice would you give to someone dating your ex?" His answer is in the comments.
Hey all, this was a shoot I had been wanted to do for some time and after doing some portrait style photos for Freya (www.invisiblecinema.co.uk/) we had some fun creating this image.
It was shot with a 28 inch softbox camera left and feathered away from the window to avoid light spill onto the window.
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As always constructive criticism is appreciated.
This was another one of the alternatives I had from my portrait52 shoot last year with Freya. We were going for a film still like look
I met Clara when out in Portobello Road with Arnab last month. We had been wandering around the market, cameras at the ready but mainly chatting and eating before heading out to dinner in another part of town. It was late afternoon when I met Clara who was out with her friend shopping in the area.
I'm always attracted to different things when making a street portrait and with Clara it was her cool and casual sense of style and epic overall look.
I made my street portrait pitch and she was really happy to take part, we made out way over to a side street just off the market that I had in mind to use as a backdrop and shot off a couple of different shots.
Clara made it all look super easy, naturally striking the exact cool and calm look I was after for the portrait.
Clara is from Sweden and was travelling around with a friend over the summer before heading home where she studies Psychology.
Another wonderful encounter wandering around the city.
This is image 75/100 in my (final) 4th set of images in my 100Strangers ongoing project.
Check out the wonderful work of the other contributors to the 100 Strangers Group on flickr!
Had great fun shooting with Ani of Style Bohemia on the streets of London recently. Just beginning the editing process but couldn't wait to share this one.
Coffee; as to his fur colour.
Lop-eared Angora
2 months
Handsome and quite a joker
Love periscoping very much.
and oh...! He loves the cords very much.. he thinks its a delicious twig!
Really enjoyed shooting with friend and actress Natalie and we got to play with some hard natural light too. This shot was lit using an AD200 in an apollo orb on camera right bouncing of a white backdrop camera left.
Coffee; as to his fur colour.
Lop-eared Angora
2 months
Handsome and quite a joker
Love periscoping very much.
and oh...! He loves the cords very much.. he thinks its a delicious twig!
So many cool nooks and crannies in the City of London. This was one of those which had some really cool light. This was edited in Capture One and finessed in Photoshop. I was playing with the colour grading on this one as I have been doing in more of my shots recently and I went for a slightly cooler tone to reflect the metallic environment.
I shot this on a cold windy and wet night in early January. I had finished a band shoot with the awesome Storm The Palace and really wanted to try something with a Blade Runner cinematic style feel. I had only a few shots and this was my favourite.
The lady on the left is lit with a Nissin Di866 Mark II Flash shot through a Lastolite trigrip diffuser. I used this rather than an umbrella as it was a windy night which would have played havoc with umbrellas and softboxes. In addition, I was wary of security guards around the area who might try and stop us from shooting and so I wanted to be discreet. they were triggered by Yongnuo YN-622 triggers
In post I toned this will mainly greens and blues to give it that cinematic feel and also added some buildings into the background to give it more atmosphere.
As always, please feel free to give me cc as to how to make this better.
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When Simone contacted me about doing a shoot I was keen to work with her but needed a venue that would be up there. I told her I would contact her when I had something in my mind.
luckily my sister decided to paint one of her rooms and it looked like it could be a set. I quickly got in contact and we had a great session.
This was shot using one godox AD200 in an apollo orb camera left and feathered.
Edward is someone who I had seen many times as he works in a shop called G H Bass. Every time I walked past I would see Edward and every time he was impeccably dressed. Today was no exception and today I was prepared.
I had wanted to take a portrait of him in the shop because his style always matched well with the environment. This was not surprising as he is an artist. I needed a wider angle and flash to make this work and today I was ready.
It was Sunday and the shop had just opened. He was the only one there so I went in and explained the project to him. Edward was so cool and agreed immediately. I told him to chill out for a bit while I set up and as (bad) luck would have some customers came in. I didn't want to mess with any sale so while he attended to them, I walked out and took some time to think about how I would set the shot up.
Once they finished, I went back in but I still couldn't take the shot. In needed someone to hold the flash / umbrella set up and we were the only two in the shop.
While we waited for a customer /assistant to walk in, I had a great chat with Edward. I asked him Daniel's question about whether or not he smiled enough to which I could tell the answer was yes.
He said it wasn't the case in photos though and he likened it to your online dating profile where everyone puts up smiley happy faces and does not show the real you. I said that it reminded me of facebook, something which he avoids as much as he can by not having internet at home. I am not sure if I could cope with that.
I asked him what question he would like me to ask for the next stranger and he said: "Where do you see yourself in 10 years?"
An interesting thing that I started doing with both Daniel (stranger 165) and Edward was to get them to answer their own question too. Edward does not like to look too far into the future and prefers to surf the waves of the present.
I could write a whole essay of our conversation as he was very giving of his time to which I am very grateful.
In terms of light set up, I had a Nikon SB5000 flash in a shoot through umbrella triggered using Yongnuo YN-622N triggers.
I had problems with the set up and the power wasn't changing from the controller. I later found out what the issue was but in the heat of the moment I just manually changed the power on the flash itself.
Thank you so much Edward for this portrait. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the
100 Strangers Flickr Group Page
Connect with me on instagram where my handle is @arnabkghosal
or visit my website
As always constructive criticism is appreciated.
What an earth am i talking about? Read on....
I was just finishing up a photoshoot for the girl who runs a fashion blog called "Style Bohemia" and as I had always dreamed of using Leadenhall Market as a backdrop we ventured over there.
It's normally quiet there on a Saturday and for the most part it was, but there was a pub in the market where I spotted Sefton and thought he would make a fantastic stranger.
I needed to concentrate on my shoot and therefore decided to leave it. I thought that it would be rude to not focus on Ani (my subject for the shoot) so I reluctantly put Sefton to the ever growing list of Strangers I missed of which there have been many.
However, luck was on my side and Sefton's buddies decided to hijack our shoot. We were coming towards the end so I didn't mind too much and more importantly neither did Ani.
After doing some fun shoots I managed to get rid of them long enough to finish up. But since we had made the connection and completed the shoot, I approached him for a portrait and he agreed.
Sefton was such a fun and charming guy and full of quotable lines of which here are just a few:
"We are not strangers because we are all connected in some way"
"We are dots spinning in heaven"
"We are all part of the same panaroma"
Having heard the above it may not surprise you to know that he is an artist and his website is called "Badgers of Bohemia" (www.badgersofbohemia.co.uk/).
I asked him for a question to ask my next stranger which was:
"Are you Happy? And if so, what makes you happy?"
Since I didn't have a question I turned the question back on him. This was when some of his quotes came out but also you could see his love for his close friends who were there with him. His friend, John grew up with him and they are still close friends and you could see that they were very close. The drinks were obviously a factor but you could see the genuine and mutual friendship they had for each other.
I could write so many things about this encounter but I think this should do now. I chose this picture over the other one for this project because this best represented the fun we had on this encounter. You can see the other one here:
www.flickr.com/photos/arnabkghosal/28064333724/
Thank you Sefton for one of my most memerable and fun stranger encounters. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the
100 Strangers Flickr Group Page
Connect with me on my facebook page: Shooting the Streets
or visit my website
As always constructive criticism is appreciated.
Strobist Info:
Nissin Di866 flash in a shoot through umbrella camera right triggered by Yongnuo trigger and flash controller
As I was finishing up my day of shooting in Portabello Road, I was heading back home. I saw Francesco relaxing on a side road looking effortlessly cool. I asked him for a portrait and he was happy to oblige.
Francesco is Italian and originally from Sicily but now lives in Shepherds Bush. He owns his Logistics and shipment company but in his spare time loves taking pictures on his phone.
From a portrait point of view, the main thing I wanted to do was use the rails as leading lines and get enough the street to give a bit more depth.
Thank you Francesco for this portrait. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the
100 Strangers Flickr Group Page
Connect with me on instagram where my handle is @arnabkghosal
or visit my website
When you see someone like Rihab you have to just do what you can to do a portrait. I saw here looking for restaurants with her friend and quickly decided to scout a location. My only hope was they didn't find a restaurant they liked before I found a location.
Luckily, since I am pretty familiar with Soho I knew exactly where I could do the portrait. So I ran ahead of her and walked back so that they could see me approach (always better to approach from the front).
Rihab kindly agreed to a portrait helped by the fact she saw my instagram feed. In addition she is an aspiring model - how lucky could I get?
My girlfriend was on hand for some reflector action to bring some light into her face. Back at home this was edited in capture one and photoshop - I took my time but only made very minor edits.
She is from Morocco originally and has been in the UK for 9 months.
Thank you so much Rihab for allowing me to take your portrait. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the
100 Strangers Flickr Group Page
Connect with me on instagram where my handle is @arnabkghosal
or visit my website
As always constructive criticism is appreciated.
It's awesome working with a team and this shot was possible because my assistant Brenda pointed out this shaft of light to me.
I am so grateful to her as this enabled us make some great portraits of Ani of Style Bohema (stylebohemia.com/). The lesson is to embrace the ideas of your team. People photography for me is always at its best when its a collaboration and together with Brenda and Ani we came away with some great shots. Thanks guys.
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Hey all,
Here is another shot of musician Albert Man (www.albertman.com). I really enjoyed working with him and am looking forward to seeing him perform live.
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Strobist: Nissin Di866 flash camera left in a Apollo 28 inch softbox triggered using Yongnuo 622n
Having not done a street portrait for a while, I wanted to take advantage of the sudden relatively good weather and headed out into Soho to see what I could get.
Almost immediately I saw Nerea come out of the Photographers Gallery and i knew I had to ask her for a portrait. She was immediately receptive and luckily I had this wooden background which complemented her clothes.
This was shot with natural light with a reflector underneath to fill in the shadows.
Nerea is of Spanish origin and works in Finance. We had a great chat as she is about to go to India and I was able to give some advice.
Amine, my last strangers question, was to describe her perfect partner. She described her perfect partner as someone who she could be herself with and someone with whom she could comfortably be in her bubble. I asked her whether she was an introvert based on her answer but she considered herself to be an extrovert. I told her that introverts get their energy from having me time - she then agreed maybe that she's an introvert.
Her question for the next stranger was "If you could be invisible, what is the first thing that you would do?"
Thank you Nerea for being a wonderful stranger. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the
100 Strangers Flickr Group Page
Connect with me on instagram where my handle is @arnabkghosal
or visit my website
As always constructive criticism is appreciated.
So its been a while since I have been shooting street portraits of strangers and I felt very very rusty.
I have already let two potential strangers by, one because I had just arrived in London and wasn't ready and the second due to the fact that she just met up with some friends, and I wasn't quite in 100 strangers social mood yet.
Anyway, good things come to those who wait, although I did begin to wonder as the light was quickly going down.
The reason I was out was because my subject for my portrait52 project had to cancel and therefore I decided to go into stranger mode.
Velards was the perfect stranger, looking sharp and on a break from his job as a restaurant manager at Bob Bob Ricard. He is Originally from Latvia.
In this shot, I got him to hold the reflect to get some light in his face and angled his head for interest. This was then post processed in Capture One which I am still trying to get to grips with.
Thanks very much Velards for saving the day and being a part of two of my projects.
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the
100 Strangers Flickr Group Page
Connect with me on my facebook page: Shooting the Streets
or visit my website
As always constructive criticism is appreciated.
After a ridiculously busy month in January (not photography related unfortunately), I finally got round to editing another one from my cinematic shoot from earlier this year.
I rarerly use the 24-70 as I tend to prefer primes but it came in very handy for this shoot.
Lighting wise I used two Godox AD200 flashes. One was camera left in a gridded apollo strip box acting as the key light. The second was a bare flash bouncing off the ceiling. Both were triggered using the Godox trigger that came with the flashes.
Nikon D750, Tamron 24-70 2.8 at 34 mm, ISO100, 1/125s F2.8