Rediscovering colour street photography

[@MelvinLim]

Love the mood that these photos evoke. So calming and melancholic.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thank you

[@ferv5470]

As always beautiful work! Funny is I am doing b&w mainly since beginning 80’s and have a kinda love and hate relationship with color photography. So now and then I get the urge to shoot color. Funny since seeing your bookreview and make me look into my copy of Glascow of Raymond Depardon, did get me inspired to make color work again. So I do now for some weeks and have a lot of fun looking at things in a different way (not with a b&w vision). So thanks for your inspiration (as has been more times in the past🙏🏼). Oh and the image at 6:41, the concrete stairs and wall at the seaside with the sunset and the man in the reflection of the sunlight. Totally epic photograph 🙌

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thank you so much for your kind comments 🙏🙏

[@stuarthaythorn183]

Beautiful work Jeff. Thank you for putting this and your other videos together.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

My pleasure. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@jasongold6751]

I started with BW! I'm 80. No choice! But we pros printed full tonal scale! No client would accept the BW we do now! Then Color! Kodachrome! No darkroom, horrible working conditions. The Best Camera outfit? A Leica M3, 50mm 35mm and 90mm.The Pradovit. C'Est tous! I love and adore color. I love BW for it's Stark realty! I am really liking your color! Oh! A screen to project on! Best way to send guests home! All the best! Bravo!

[@theowlfromduolingo7982]

Sorry what does full tonal scale mean in this context and how exactly does it compare to today's modern BW films? Thanks for your comment

[@igtard705]

Full tonal >you see what you show what you want seen 😎

[@gordonownby9106]

Jeff - This set was very welcome. I hope that you plan on putting all or many of these onto your website so that we can spend more time poring over them.

[@corydhmiller]

These are stunning.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thank you

[@rogercaughell4282]

Excellent set! Great use of light!

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thank you 🙏

[@gvnrchmnd]

4:27 is very very good. Frame within a frame is always a winner for me.

[@thomaszuber9913]

Wow Jeff, this set is awesome! Music in the background is great and accompanies the pictures in a perfekt way. Part two with bass i like the most😃 Greetings from germany Tom

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thank you Tom. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@andrewowen-price4496]

Great pictures. I enjoy seeing how colour works in some photos and monochrome in others. Vive La Difference! Happy Christmas to you both.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thank you! You too!

[@StarrysLostandFound]

From your instagram posts I knew this must be on its way. What a shift from your normal style. Thanks for a look at your color photos.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Yeah it’s a bit different. Thanks for watching.

[@tashography]

One of my fav videos!😊

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Mine too!! I really liked putting this one together.

[@celynsantana2270]

So beautiful Jeff!!! I love black and white but colour... Colour is amazing. For some reason our vision and our world is full of colours. Just fantastic!!!!!

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thank you 🙏🙏

[@ChrisBrogan]

I've been switching between B&W and color based on whether the color is necessary to tell the story (or if I've ruined the sky or something). Loved watching this and seeing what you do when you let the colors come through. Thanks for sharing it.:)

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thanks for watching 🙏

[@FLMUSACanada]

Great set, Jeff! I find it's always good to come back to color, even briefly, every now and then. The B&W-trained eye will see color images much differently than someone who always shoots in color.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

That’s a great point. I did notice a lot of my images were almost monochromatic.

[@milodermick2981]

Awesome pictures

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thank you 🙏

[@patrickmerlay1762]

Congratulations Jeff, Your talent for photographing color is equal to your talent for black and white. I can see those dark landscapes that Harry Gruyaert captures so well.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

I wouldn’t agree, but that’s very kind of you to say so.

[@Shephard1978]

Great stuff. Can defo see inspiration from one of your favourite photographers!

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Don McCullin? 😂

[@billgreen1140]

Excellent images. So powerful. So intriguing. I’ve always vacillated between BW and color. I go through stages where I fixate on one or the other. They both have their merits.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thank you. I think most photographers do the same.

[@theowlfromduolingo7982]

A lot of very creative and well composed images. One can tell that you put effort into them

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Cheers 🙏

[@geoffmphotography9444]

High contrast, vivid colours work well don't they. Great set.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Yes they do!!

[@anils.rkumar6551]

Amazing Colours and love the Video,Thank you

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thanks for watching 🙏

[@johnkelly-pd3vq]

These are superb, brilliant light, composition, colours, I thought I was looking at a Harry Gruyaert boo they are that good, maybe you need to reconsider doing a lot more colour work, 👏👏

[@WalkLikeAlice]

You are very kind. As for more colour work, we will see.

[@johnkelly-pd3vq]

@WalkLikeAlice I would definitely buy a zine or book if it became available,

[@PatriciaOrellana-h4u]

@@johnkelly-pd3vq me too!

[@WalkLikeAlice]

We are currently working on a series of zines which will be published next year. It’s been a great experience putting them together.

[@fbraakman]

Your black and whites are great, but your colours are not too shabby either. Beautiful work.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thank you

[@johnwaine56]

Your colour photography is top notch, Jeff. More please! BTW - do you have Joel Meyerowitz’s book ‘A question of colour’ ?

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thanks John. I’m not really a Meyerowitz fan. I don’t have any of his books.

[@timswinford6390]

Thought provoking. Thank you for sharing your work.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Glad you enjoyed it 🙏

[@nolawernicke9078]

Great photos Jeff, there were some that somehow looked like paintings, wonderful colours!

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thank you.

[@TheWooloomoolloo]

Very nice!

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thank you 🙏🙏

[@aw0193]

Just wow ! composition, light and color grading. Would definitely but a book of this work.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

You are very kind. Thank you.

[@therealbonj]

I like the colour photos of yours Jeff as well as b&w ones I do particularly like the sky detail/rendering in some of these, do you meter or AE lock or whatever on the sky and recompose, or dial in underexposure, or just avoid blowing highlights and then bring out the foreground detail in post if necessary?

[@WalkLikeAlice]

-1/3 stop under in camera. Centre weighted metering. Don’t worry too much about skies and shadows. With Raw you can recover most things in post.

[@louissmith6584]

People always told me "colour adds nothing to an image". I never understood this concept and I shoot more colour rolls than I do Black and White, IMOI think colour adds everything to the image and you've captured this perfectly with your images here, congrats.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thank you. People say things to garner attention. Colour adds a totally different dimension to an image.

[@lensman5762]

Funny you should say that. I too have recently started to do a lot more colour than B&W. I feel that the winter light in the NW of England shams a unique quality that shows better in colour photography.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

I think it’s good for both. But choosing to shoot colour makes me look at it differently.

[@davidmurray5926]

Breathtaking, each and every image. You are peerless, end of.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thanks David. 🙏

[@IanFord-un6jr]

Wow….love these!

[@WalkLikeAlice]

🙏

[@jacobfreck4414]

In the most positive way, I find your color work even more impressive than your black and white photos. The images have a beautiful, painterly color palette that is perfectly balanced between muted and vibrant. To me, it adds so much on top of the masterful compositions. How much would you attribute the final images color palette to post processing versus camera/lens/subject matter? I'd love to see more color editing tutorials.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thank you. Post processing is important in as much as I want the images to look filmic. It’s what I like. Visually, most of my colour inspiration comes from movies and I like to have that look within my photos. There were five different cameras involved in these images. The Leica M9 needed the least editing, the Canon cameras needed the most.

[@android4219]

Really good images.. 🙂👍

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Glad you like them!

[@andreasf307]

Awesome!

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thank you! 🙏

[@iaincphotography6051]

They were good to view Jeff, enjoyed the colour very much indeed.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thanks Iain

[@matthewelsdon7949]

Really strong images! Thanks 👍

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thank you too!

[@ElevatedThreat]

These are beautiful photos, in keeping with your great work. I will say that my own preference is that of the black and white photos though.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thank you!!

[@LaFuenteOnFilm]

Got some amazing shots here!

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thank you 🙏

[@rawvoltairephoto]

I also do street photography and I love photographing only in black and white. I think it gives another energy to photography.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Colour? Yes it’s a different energy to the photography.

[@RonalParme]

Through my screen and my eyes, you do color extremely well. Reminds me of the work of Fred Herzog. Would like to know more details, film or digital, etc.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

All digital. Shot on a variety of cameras over a seven year period. Leica M8 and M9. Canon 5D Mkiii and Mkiv. LUMIX S1 and LUMIX GX7.

[@luigi_monaco]

WOW - ! Your pictures are really grande, you might want to consider printing a book? I am also using a M camera and am wondering how you evaluate exposure in the field? Are your pictures near to what you have shown out of camera or do you rely on post processing for this? I use automatic ISO and shutter speed (2x focal length) and set F stop for the wanted effect, do you use the same method?

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thank you. Zines will be available next year. Books are a possibility we will see how that goes. As for camera settings, yes I do the same when shooting with the Monochrom camera but with colour I set the ISO and use aperture priority.

[@simonbnyc]

These are stunning photographs. I see I'm not the only person in the comments who is reminded of the work of Harry Gruyaert!

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thank you so much 🙏

[@derrenleepoole]

Not sure, but I think you may have used a camera before ;) Some really good captures there mate!

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thank you 🙏

[@waltervermeiren6860]

I love the color pictures, but B&W is my favorite for street photography...anyway great work!!!

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thank you

[@ccbphoto]

Nice work!

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thanks!🙏🙏

[@gohumberto]

You have a good eye my friend. (Subscribed) My love of colour photography was rediscovered when I discovered "Classic Negative" on my Fuji X100V. It looks a lot like some of your Blackpool colours. I tend to gravitate towards Monochrome (maybe my darkroom days in the 1980s are responsible for me seeing the World like that). Digital colour started out well (I have a Canon 5D "classic" and a 6D) but it soon started to get saturated and very "digital-perfection". Every technical advance made matters even worse where attractive colours were concerned. Fuji allows me to dial in a nice filmic "recipe" including grain, to take off that digital edge. Now my favourite images come by way of making the digital image "worse". You have to go backwards to go forwards sometimes.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

I agree. Digital can be too clean. Almost soulless. Some of these were shot with Canon 5D cameras. Some Leica. Some with compact LUMIX camera. None with film. All have been treated to look more filmic and have a ton of grain added or were taken at higher iso.

[@TravertinM]

Great photographs with great color. You should shoot street photography more often in color.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thank you. I’ll see how it goes.

[@therealbonj]

I realised today one of the things I enjoy about street photography over other genres is that I look forward to getting home and editing, because I never quite know what I’ve got

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Same here!

[@Extrusor_3D]

Excellent work! They look like old Kodachrome shots.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Thank you very much!

[@DrZeeple]

There were some nice ones in there. Look like 28mm but maybe the odd 50mm, not sure

[@WalkLikeAlice]

They are a collection taken from the past seven years. Some were taken while I was away on other jobs, others while testing gear, so there are a number of different cameras and lenses.

[@visionsbyjuice5780]

Where these shot on film?

[@WalkLikeAlice]

No. All digital.

[@mp_martin]

Few photographers can see color and black and white equally. One type usually awkward or forced by comparison.

[@johnstarkey4959]

I prefer mainly BW , but i also like some of my street stuff in colour, I was once told many years ago that Not every image suits BW ?? What are your 😊thoughts on that statement Jeff ?

[@WalkLikeAlice]

If you shoot in colour you will look for colour scenes. If you shoot in mono, you will look for things which suit black and white. Rarely do colour photos work as well in b/w and rarely do b/w photos work in colour. It’s a mindset rather than a rule. Whoever told you this was perhaps a colour photographer?

[@johnstarkey4959]

@@WalkLikeAlice Yes he was at the time , now he just shoots BW .

[@gavtalk958]

Nufin' wrong with any of t'ose. Goodness......you should do more days like that, mate.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Days? This is about seven years of work. 😂. I usually shoot mono so it’s rare for me to shoot colour.

[@robertgordon6362]

Interesting change of pace, but you’re strong sense of graphic design is better in your mono chrome images.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

I would disagree. If you convert any of these images to mono, you would see those same elements. Colour can be a distraction to some people especially if their eye is more focused on design.

[@jonathanparkes1603]

I know you will hate me….. but I much prefer your colour work. Sorry but my opinion

[@WalkLikeAlice]

Don’t apologise. Everyone likes different things.