Authentic Coney Island (10 photos)

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Comment by Alyssa Anda on March 10, 2011 at 2:11pm

@Kevin-Thank you for sharing that :)

Comment by Ed on March 9, 2011 at 8:46pm

"So many images have been shot at Coney Island so you have to try and do something
different otherwise why bother."

Thanks Kevin and Alyssa! I learned a-lot from this. Especially the post production notes. Please also thank Matt for me.

Comment by Kevin Chung on March 9, 2011 at 7:07pm

Here's the response I got from Matt:
"I really don't know what to say in that time was quite tight when I went
there on a really hot day last summer and the method of picture taking is
generally the same whatever I do. I come from a photo-journalist
background so I shoot quite rapidly darting from one place to another
shooting whenever an opportunity presents itself which sometimes means
shooting from the hip as it were. I am always on the lookout for a person
wandering into a scene that may catch my eye and sometimes hoping for an
unexpected moment or a happy accident and I sometimes place myself
somewhere graphically pleasing expecting something to happen. The images
taken of Coney Island funfair from the subway were shot from the hip at
speed as I saw the scene flash passed and was lucky they worked, But I
suppose long experience working in some dangerous places means you have to
kind of see things out the corner of your eye and react. So many images
have been shot at Coney Island so you have to try and do something
different otherwise why bother.

Coney Island, to me, suggests a kind of down at heal location and
colourless but fascinating all the same as it has been alluded to in so
many songs and images so in post production I de-saturated the images a
bit and added a fair amount of contrast an added a slight sepia tone to
the shadows until I got what you see. I used there a Canon 5d2 and a bit
of fill-flash from a small Canon speedlight, forgotten the name but the
smallest they do."

Comment by Alyssa Anda on March 9, 2011 at 11:48am

@Linda-he is an excellent photographer! You should check out his other works

@Ed-I'll look into for you :)

Comment by Ed on March 9, 2011 at 9:04am

These are great! Is there a name for the technique of muting the colors, especially on the 4rth photo?

Comment by Linda Wang on March 9, 2011 at 12:03am

so many great shots!

i especially love:

the brightness of the woman's red dress in the 3rd shot
the legs flying in the air on the ride in the 6th shot
the sad stuffed puppy that seems to be racing forward on the stroller, in search of better days

what talent!