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I've been saying many things about the Amsterd@m cops and you might think I was exaggerating, so to prove my point I've tried taking pictures of all the cops I see in one day in the best city in the world, and here it is, a typical day in the mean streets of Amsterd@m...
I did not actually manage to take photos of ALL the cops I saw, sometimes they passed by too fast on their way to the Donut shop, but I think this still speaks for itself...welcome to the brave new world a.k.a. Cop-city :((
P.s. In case you're wondering, sometimes the cops DO help people, there are 2 shots in the collage where you can see the police assisting to make the city a safer, better place, but mostly they're harassing by-walkers, searching foreign-looking people and their bags, stopping people on scooters/bikes and in general giving us the eye, in case we dare behaving indecently...sad but true!
Bore Beach, San Remo
#BoreBeach #SanRemo #PhillipIsland #BassCoast #Sand #Waves #BlueSkies #Victoria #ILoveThisState #BeautifulDay #Spectacular #LifeIsGood
Slightly edited shot of the lovely Miss A in Amsterdam, reflected in a puddle. Taken with my HTC Desire mobile phone. No editing besides some playing around with the contrast :)
Come and visit my photo exhibition called 'Girls! Girls! Girls!' at the ABC Treehouse, the lovely Miss Monyart and myself will be at the Treehouse today, tomorrow, and every Saturday and Sunday for the whole month, from 13:00 - 18:00, we would love to meet you in real life and show you our photos of the beautiful Amsterdam girls, there's free coffee and delicious cookies waiting for you. The gallery is also open on Fridays, but we won't be there :))
ABC Treehouse
Voetboogstraat 11
1012 XK Amsterdam
Takin' in a set of some sweet live jazz at the Green Mill I started talking to a photographer from Austria.
He was impressed with my gear and it's ability to capture images in the really low light of the Green Mill.
I handed him the camera and he tried his hand at some 'up close' shooting of the Viewminder.
He did pretty good.
It's tough in such a low light environment... there's a lot of noise in the shot because the ISO is set at 3200... the shutter's open for a long time and you gotta hold that camera really still and hope your subject doesn't move too much either.
Relativity matters.
The real skill of shooting like that is always being aware of the light and being able to 'stop' all of your own motion instantaneously as you fire the shutter...
It's really pretty 'physical'... I mean... after doing it all night you'll be sore from the motion of it... it's not natural to be moving around in a dynamic environment with a moving target and then immediately freezing your motion to become as still as possible to take the shot.
It's like some 'kung fu' shit.
I love the challenge of shooting in low light like that.
I can't imagine what'd be like with a camera like Nikon's D3 that'll go up to ISO 25000 with no noise.
I'd be afraid it'd be too easy and the challenge would disappear... but man... all of the shots that I'd come home with...
so many of the shots I take on the street don't come out.
'Heartbreakers' I call them.
I've become so much more aware of the light as I chase these images at night though.
It's a different world.
Don't be afraid of the night.