St. Petersburg I - "Street, part 1"

[LucisPictor]

Hi, here are some street shots from St. Petersburg.
I have put them here, because the B&W prints were shot with the Yashica Electro 35GS using a Kodak BW400CN.
My local lab produces a slight sepia tone when scanning the pics, I like that.

Nevski Prospect






At a metro station, pity it's unsharp.

The guy in the background is pretty spooky!

In order to be quick, I have used the cam at hyperfocal settings and f8, unfortunately the shutter speed got a little slow this way at times.


The next shots were taken with a Vivitar UltraWide & Slim 22mm plastic lens camera using ISO800 Fuji film:


Kasanskij sobor


At the Nevsky Monastery .

[Katastrofo]

Carsten, love the street shots and forgot you had a VUWS! This should have
gone in the film section, not digital. Attila can move this when he sees it.

Need to try the Kodak film, like the sepia effect!

[Nesster]

The UWUS makes great photos, it's a remarkable little cam... and the Yash shots are excellent and atmospheric. The scans do tend to browns - and sometimes greens - even on a home scanner. I like that effect as well.

[Orio]

I like the first of the B&W, very nice light and sense of depth.

About hyperfocal, you can "cheat" a little and use f/4 and move forward the focus point. This will give not true hyperfocal but a deep enough focus (usually the subjects are never closer than 3-4 meters)
The two stops less will give you enough shutter speed to freeze most movements.

[LucisPictor]

[Katastrofo]

[LucisPictor]

I thought, I posted it here, because I have used a rangefinder and a viewfinder cam. Strange...