Photo and Personal Style ~ Photography called Street, Part 2

I couldn't wait any longer, I had to go. I had to breath that city air. I had to walk across those car infested streets. And most importantly, I had to photograph it all.

I went back on the streets two days after I had first gone, as a photographer. The atmosphere just pulled me in like a vacuum collecting dust from a shaggy carpet. I started off my second day completely different compared to my first day, I was full of confidence and desire of capturing the city. I began with an image that I feel correctly separates the multiple elements of tampa's downtown  park.

Then something awesome happened. I encountered the "City Posse" as I'd like to call them. Separate  they all had character to spare, but together they created such an amazing scene in my mind. But why write about it when I can show you....

After I had taken this picture the two dudes on bikes began doing some of their BMX tricks and I couldn't help take pictures. 

And finish it off with a portrait!

City Alive

I continued on my journey through the city and encountered more of the things that had originally sucked my attention from my first visit. I began to see more of a subtleness to the city life, that lived inside the insanity. This included:

A traveling band, on bike

The relationships between the city workers 

Just seeing these "raw" moments made me feel the sense of being a scribe for human life in the city, just like the first time I came. 

And then a style revealed itself:

I call this "Mr. Jackson"

This one is "Runway Street"

The character these two individuals gave made me feel like I was watching super models from 1950's Bronx, it just blew me away.

The Picture

After encountering the "Duo from Bronx" I had decided to return to the park I had started at, but I took a different route. I'm so glad I did.

I decided to take a path between some buildings (instead of the sidewalk) and while I was walking I saw a giant hole between two buildings. It gave me this kind of vibe that means I'm looking at something unique, so I studied it further and this is what I saw.

This is by far one of my favorite pictures that I have taken. Since I do no editing of my pictures after pressing the shutter I took about twenty pictures (good ones) before I felt confident enough to look away. It was another story trying to walk away. 

The Park

At the park I found a large group of children playing in the Fountain Springs and it was awesome seeing the incredible smiles on their faces from simply running through jets of water. I got some really awesome pictures of the children playing, while trying to not seem like a creeper to the parents haha:

It was such an incredible day. Being able to experience such moments in the lives of other individuals, and capture incredible parts of the city was what makes street photography an art that I think will never stop blowing people's minds, especially my own.

I hope you enjoyed reading this blog. I've been very busy for the past couple of months with college as a premed student (I'm a self taught photographer). But I hope the length of this post makes up for the time lost :). 

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Ravimi Photography

One of those Randoms! ~ "Collage Photography"

So while I was navigating through my Blog I noticed something interesting; when I scrolled the page to just the right spot, the picture on the foreground matched up with the picture in the background! I saw this and I thought of how awesome it would be to put them together, but then I remembered that I would never published any edited pictures! Anyways I thought about it pretty hard and decided to do it for the fun and the art I could be making, almost forgetting it's a photograph and focusing on the Collage art aspect and that I would give it away for free to followers of my photography. Yes, the picture below is for you, it's a thank you for signing up on any of my social media sites and following my progress as a photographer.

Fun Fact: All the images used to make this collage were taken on the same day, within the same hour, and for the same theme: Sunset photography. Also, almost all the pictures are taken towards the same direction and are positioned (on the Collage) similar to where the were taken.

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Keep on Snappin',
Ravimi

Sunset Miracles 

Photo and Personal Style ~ Continuation

Here are some more pictures I've taken! I hope you enjoy.

ISO 100
1/1250 Shutter Speed
2.5 Aperture
50 mm 

ISO 100
1/4000 Shutter Speed
5.6 Aperture
300mm 

ISO 100
1/4000 Shutter Speed
5.6 Aperture
300mm 

ISO 100
1/4000 Shutter Speed
4.0 Aperture
75mm 

ISO 200
1/125 Shutter Speed
4.5 Aperture
50mm 

ISO 200
1/125 Shutter Speed
6.3 Aperture
50mm 

ISO 100
1/250 Shutter Speed
13 Aperture
50mm 

ISO 100
1/400 Shutter Speed
5.6 Aperture
300mm 

ISO 100
1/200 Shutter Speed
5.6 Aperture
300mm 

Keep on Snappin',

Ravimi

Photo and Personal Style

So I was looking at my latest pictures and decided it should be about time I shared some information about my photography process. The pictures below were taken during the afternoon Golden Hours near a bridge that connects two cities (both cities divided by a very large body of water).

The first image is of a wave breaker that had been broken down by the waves. The warm yellow and orange light from the Sun helped create a more lively subject. I focused on the middle because I liked how that section of the wall was lower and closer to the water.

*Some of you may have noticed the "Personal settings on camera" part under the image's description. This is part of the description refers to the camera settings used, ex: Sepia, Black and White, Purple, Green. Except I used my own settings that I developed through experiences with shooting SOOC (straight out of camera). All my pictures come directly from the camera and never go through any post processing after being taken. This made it difficult to sometimes get the "real" colors and details I saw with my eyes, so in order to stick with my self-enforced goal of being an SOOC photographer I used my knowledge to fiddle around with my camera settings until I found what best pleased my taste. 

The second image was when the sun was almost at the ends of the earth (that means almost under the horizon). I really love this picture because it makes me think, for whatever reason, of the 1930's, which was a time in which I never existed. It also reminded me of The Great Gatsby kind of sunset. This image was also shot with my own personal settings. I used a medium sized Aperture in order to maintain the clouds in focus but not so closed that the magical detail created by low f/stops would be effected. Similar to the first shot, the Aperture that is closer to being more open (small f/stop number) the more focused and the better the lens tends to work (I recommend an f/stop between 2.2-3.5).

ISO 200
1/250 Shutter Speed
2.2 Aperture
50mm
Personal settings on camera*

ISO 100
1/200 Shutter Speed
5.6 Aperture
Personal settings on camera*

I hoped you liked the images and remember to SUBSCRIBE!

Keep on Snappin',
ravimi

One of those Randoms! - More Poem Posters

Here are all the posters with poems on them that I've made so far. These are only 15% of the actual file sizes, but I'm thinking of maybe selling them soon in full size prints.

Keep on Snappin',

ravimi