IN-A-HURRY

[JimFox]

To IN-N-OUT burgers!

This is the only In-N-Out that doesn't have 50 or 60 cars backed up at it's drive-thru line, and that's because it's the only one I know of that doesn't have a drive-thru. This one is in Glendale, down the street from the Americana mall that I was going to shoot at a little later.

Most of the Street photography I was doing that evening was with slow shutter speeds as I was trying to capture the hustle and bustle of a busy fast paced city. Again the Nikon 24-120mm with the VR on did a fantastic job keeping everything stationary sharp with the only softness and blur coming from objects or people that were moving.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

And the Full shot before cropping

 

[AlanLichty]

Interesting for me to think about this type of photography. I have been pointing my lenses at landscapes for over 55 years now and can't say that I have ever tried shooting a scene like this.

As I think about your composition zooming out just a smidge would have let you include all of the streetlamp on the left and still keep that red sign framing above and on the right.

 

[JimFox]

Interesting for me to think about this type of photography. I have been pointing my lenses at landscapes for over 55 years now and can't say that I have ever tried shooting a scene like this.

As I think about your composition zooming out just a smidge would have let you include all of the streetlamp on the left and still keep that red sign framing above and on the right.

Thanks Alan!

I haven't shot much of it until FocalWorld opened up. Seeing some of the cool Street photo by other photographers I thought it was cool to go do. And it is fun. It's a blast and really helps the creative juices. It's a great counter balance to my Landscape photography because it is so different.

I would encourage everyone to give it a try.

As to the framing, I did crop off from the left side. So I could put some back. There was a trash can I wanted to eliminate from the scene, as I cropped that out, the light pole was still in the scene but so close to the edge it felt odd to me and a distraction, so I went slightly tighter to lose the pole, hoping that the light was less of a distraction by itself.

 

[David S]

Cool shot, it definitely shows people eager to get some good food!
I do agree with Alan, you could zoom in more, or back it up a little to either take out some of the sidewalk, or to add the lamp, but its always easy to say that when we werent there, sometimes you can only get a certain shot a certain way due to many factors. Lots of yellow here !

 

[Ben Egbert]

The kid on the right in motion adds a good sense of his urgency, gimmy a burger now it seems to say.

 

[Kyle Jones]

You can also just clone / content aware fill the lamp out as well...

I like the color and motion

 

[JimFox]

Cool shot, it definitely shows people eager to get some good food!
I do agree with Alan, you could zoom in more, or back it up a little to either take out some of the sidewalk, or to add the lamp, but its always easy to say that when we werent there, sometimes you can only get a certain shot a certain way due to many factors. Lots of yellow here !

Thanks Dave! Here is the full image added to the top.

 

[David S]

oooh thats a tough one, maybe if it were later and the light was on, then it would look nicer to keep it in the frame..

 

[AlanLichty]

Agree with Dave - that full frame does have some challenges and your original crop was a good compromise.

Cloning in a shot like this is a lot more difficult than on a nature scene. It's easy to add flowers and shrubs in a natural environment but in a scene like this it's hard to fill in the spaces. Making the trash can disappear means recreating the scene behind which includes people's legs in the restaurant.

 

[JimFox]

Agree with Dave - that full frame does have some challenges and your original crop was a good compromise.

Cloning in a shot like this is a lot more difficult than on a nature scene. It's easy to add flowers and shrubs in a natural environment but in a scene like this it's hard to fill in the spaces. Making the trash can disappear means recreating the scene behind which includes people's legs in the restaurant.

And I could go with a vertical crop and ignore the whole left side, but for me as a Street photo, there is interesting details of the people inside the store on the left side too.

The main thing is I had fun shooting this, I think with the randomness of shooting on the street that most shots will have compromises, because there are so many elements in a scene that we don't have control over. I do hope that as I post some of these Street Photos, the same as when Dave posts his, that it will encourage some of you to get out and try it. I have found shooting something like this is a real shot in the arm creatively because it is so different. I truly had fun doing it.

 

[David S]

And I could go with a vertical crop and ignore the whole left side, but for me as a Street photo, there is interesting details of the people inside the store on the left side too.

The main thing is I had fun shooting this, I think with the randomness of shooting on the street that most shots will have compromises, because there are so many elements in a scene that we don't have control over. I do hope that as I post some of these Street Photos, the same as when Dave posts his, that it will encourage some of you to get out and try it. I have found shooting something like this is a real shot in the arm creatively because it is so different. I truly had fun doing it.

As you have learned, what a nature photo gives you the street takes away....