Leica RF Street Photography

[eboehm]

Dear Leica Users,

Just set up a new website at: Street Photography Israel Boehm. Would be interested in any feedback on the site. Can email me directly at: eboehmjr@gmail.com or post it here. Will try to check back.

Cheers,

eboehm

[tollie]

really splended street portraiture... showing a vision that does not make the news...

Todd

[horosu]

Exquisite portraits! Very much appreciated!

[Thomas Edwards]

...nice site...great images...a visual counter-part to "jerusalem 1913"...thanks...

[glenerrolrd]

Three recommendations .....one ..try a wider angled lens maybe close to the 28mm FOV. This will open up the images providing greater context to the subject. two...try to get more views from the front. Including the subjects eyes in the image adds strength. Three ..experiment with different angles ..get lower or maybe sometimes higher than the subjects eye level. Of course these are just my POV and your images are already excellent.

[fotojo]

fantastic images.....! about the best i have seen on any leica forum in years! i am in awe of your ability to compose, and capture the moment. Bravo!

-Josef

[maddoc2003jp]

Very impressive and excellent work ! Keeping it strictly BW and getting close to the persons results in a good balance between not to intimate and not only observing, IMHO. Also I can see your passion in having taken these photos.

[eboehm]

Thanks much for all of your supportive emails. My goal is to get these prints shown in a gallery in NYC or elsewhere and eventually seem them published. We'll see.

[graeme_hutton]

Very nice work indeed.

Regards

Graeme

[Bernd Banken]

Originally Posted by glenerrolrd

Three recommendations .....one ..try a wider angled lens maybe close to the 28mm FOV. This will open up the images providing greater context to the subject. two...try to get more views from the front. Including the subjects eyes in the image adds strength. Three ..experiment with different angles ..get lower or maybe sometimes higher than the subjects eye level. Of course these are just my POV and your images are already excellent.

100% - you nailed it! Most important: he is not afraid to come closer to people...:-)

Bernd

[jimmy pro]

His subjects appear to be unaware of the camera, instead there concentrating on there own lives, not mugging for the camera. Also, his subjects appear clearly the subjects, not just props for the photographer to get all artsy. In those respects I like his shots a lot better then yours.

[roguewave]

Izzy (my maternal grandfather's name is Israel), very nice work. You have have poured a lot of emotion, love & sweat into these images. There are some recommendations proffered which have merit. The inclusion of a wider angle lens, a 21, 24, would give a different view to compliment your current crop of images. I use the R19 to take many of my best portraits. Often times, people & their faces come alive in the context of their surroundings.

The most important value I think I could add, is to address your workflow. I'm not sure if you scan you negs or prints to just what's up. From viewing various samples, I think you capture a lot more in the negatives than you display in the final prints/images online. I certainly would experiment with a few of your images in Photoshop, particularly in the LAB colorspace. There are a few applications there that would add a lot more detail and better transitions from dark to light, particularly in the midtones. Since most of the middle east is seen in terms of B&W, it would be nice to have he Rabbis & seekers have a richer set of Blacks with creamier whites & grays to distinguish them from their backdrops. I'm not talking contrast here. That's a different issue.

I say this because your images are good. I think you owe them more respect, both the subjects and the audience. Spend more time learning about how to get richer detail and smoother gradations. Focus on essential elements and let them tell the story. It isn't that the the images are flat, it's that there isn't a center of gravity emotionally that separates the sun from the planets in many of them.

I hope you post some of your work directly in this forum. There are many superb professionals that have been essential to my growth that can bring new insights, experiments and road maps which you might find of value. You will find a receptive audience and bring joy & beauty to this place. Shalom. Ben

[jimmy pro]

Originally Posted by roguewave

It isn't that the the images are flat, it's that there isn't a center of gravity emotionally that separates the sun from the planets in many of them.

At least when my generation said shit like that back in the 60's we had an excuse, we were tripping on acid

[lmr]

Very Impressive work... I enjoyed it a whole lot.

Thank you for sharing.
Robert.

[Arif]

Lovely work. Thank you for showing me a part of the world that I hope I will get to see in this lifetime.
Best wishes,
Arif

[PATB]

Thank you for posting. Very inspiring set of photographs -- bravo.

[peter55]

Yes a different world from whwere I have spent most of my life in the country side in Long Island NY, but I must add in some way's similar to the time I spent growing up in Manhattan NY between 1955 and 1956.
I have bookmarked your site so I can visit again.