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      01-03-2017, 02:55 PM   #1
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Another year, another set of street shots, continuing to work on finding a style

Comments and critiques welcome, almost all taken with a 50mm lens


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Nice series, even without a beautiful woman in the foreground of many! I DO agree that a person in the foreground, particularly one with a nice figure, in focus or OOF, adds to the strength of many street scenes.

Have you thought about putting together a vanity book, documenting the trip? Your lady will love it and so will your friends. I use MyPublisher, but there are several viable alternatives. Do the largest book they make and use high quality papers. You'll only be getting two or three books at a time, so it's not a huge splurge.

With MP, I wait for discount offers, which are typically 40% to 60% off the list price. They make these offers between all the major holidays, when there's a lull in their production.

I started doing books several years ago and we now have quite a collection of "coffee table" books. My travel companion friends now expect a book and have all stopped carrying cameras. My adult daughters thumb through the books over and over, when they visit.

I just did a 100-pages book that I call Portals Of The World, showing windows, doors, bridges, city gates, etc. from our travels, going back to 2007. When in Rome, in 2015, I realized that I'd been taken such shots for years and I got more purposeful in that regard. I keep a copy on my credenza at work and actually sold a couple! (Given the cost to produce, it's hard to make any margin on books, so think of it as self-fulfillment).

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I started doing coffee table books about a year ago to document family excursions. Sure beats breaking out the laptop to show pictures to family/friends. I use blurb because the theme parks we visit regularly always have a coupon for a free book.

edit: nice pics OP. A couple look a tiny bit over saturated, but that's looking from my uncalibrated work monitor.
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Another year, another set of street shots, continuing to work on finding a style

Comments and critiques welcome, almost all taken with a 50mm lens
Awesome shots man.

Re: your shot from Florence, here's one I took just a few feet away from that spot! (My SO taking a pic of me taking a pic of her)

Italy-229 by Matt Steele, on Flickr
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Re: your shot from Florence, here's one I took just a few feet away from that spot! (My SO taking a pic of me taking a pic of her)
Matt, very nice. I like continuing the beautiful woman theme.
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Nice work as always mate. Loving the vibe of these. Keep snapping away.
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A great set of shots Vudoo, and well processed too.

Matt, I love that image of your young lady in Florence.
Although we can't see her face it doesn't matter. You just know from her pose etc., that she's obviously a very elegant and stylish young lady.
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Matt, I love that image of your young lady in Florence.
Although we can't see her face it doesn't matter. You just know from her pose etc., that she's obviously a very elegant and stylish young lady.
She is indeed
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