{"id":10359,"date":"2013-03-12T08:28:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T15:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=10359"},"modified":"2013-03-12T08:28:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T15:28:52","slug":"capturing-the-brilliant-light-of-marseille-street-photography-by-yves-vernin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/12\/capturing-the-brilliant-light-of-marseille-street-photography-by-yves-vernin\/","title":{"rendered":"Capturing the Brilliant Light of Marseille: Street Photography by Yves Vernin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Eric’s Note<\/strong>: Yves Vernin<\/a> is a street photographer based out of Marseille, France. I met Yves in Marseille last year, where he was an amazing host and showed me all around the city. I wanted to share his images of Marseille, a place that I haven’t seen much street photography from, and I love how he is able to catch the brilliant light there. Read more to see his images and his beginnings and what he looks for when in the streets.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Yves<\/strong>: I am doctor and ethnologist. I shot a bit of street photography as an adolescent, but for the next 25 years gave up photography entirely.<\/p>\n

About three years ago, I then bought my first camera to take photos to illustrate letters to my girlfriend. Inspired by photography once again, I bought my first DSLR about a year later. The main purpose of getting the camera was to photograph musicians during their\u00c2\u00a0rehearsals<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and also of some master stringed-instrument makers<\/a>. From then, I was drawn to the light and also with a focus on hands.<\/p>\n

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From that point forward, I started to shoot again in the streets with my DSLR. Due to the large size of my camera, I am quite shy when shooting on the streets. Therefore I tend to focus my attention on the light and the shadows rather than on people.<\/p>\n

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Eric, you asked me an interesting question: “How does your music influences your photography?<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

I listen to a lot of music, especially classical music. I’m not sure whether my interest in music necessarily influences my photography, but it certainly reflects my tastes. I am drawn to complex structures (both in music and photography).<\/p>\n

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Some of the photographers that I admire is Constantine Manos<\/a>— and his use of shadows and light<\/a>. Interestingly enough, Manos also started like me– by first taking photographs of classical musicians during their\u00c2\u00a0rehearsals<\/a>. Perhaps this isn’t a cooincidence.<\/p>\n

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When I shoot on the streets, I don’t think much about composition. Rather, I go by intuition and with my gut. As a child, my parents taught the fundamentals of Italian painting and would explain them onc\u00c2\u00a0countless\u00c2\u00a0museum trips. \u00c2\u00a0Not only that, but I was a shooting champion as a child (with a gun) as a child — so I trained for a long time to perfect my aiming without necessarily looking. Today, when shooting I don’t always frame using my viewfinder.<\/p>\n

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To work the rough lights of Marseille, I often wait until the sun is low – and I make sure that my lens is clean and my lens hood is on. I also am careful of the sun, because our eyes are precious and it can be quite harmful looking at it for too long.<\/p>\n

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The light changes every day and I spend a lot of time walking, looking for new paths of light. I look for rays on the ground, unexpected reflections, or abnormally-lighted faces. I then try to understand where the light comes from. I think it is important to know your city well in order to know where the light comes from and where the shadows fall.<\/p>\n

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When I find the good light (which is nice and contrasty) I usually do one of two things. First of all, I might set my exposure to the highlights. I don’t mind if the shadows are black and without detail — it is actually something I like. However if I am facing against the sun, I look for an object which I can use as my main subject. I then wait for people to walk by at the right time, to create an interesting silhouette, shadows–or for something unexpected to happen! After that, it is a lot of patience, and luck.<\/p>\n

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You can see more work from Yves from his website\u00c2\u00a0here<\/a>. You can also follow Yves on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric’s Note: Yves Vernin is a street photographer based out of Marseille, France. I met Yves in Marseille last year, where he was an amazing host and showed me all around the city. I wanted to share his images of Marseille, a place that I haven’t seen much street photography from, and I love how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[372],"tags":[1406,1405],"class_list":["post-10359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-photographers","tag-marseille","tag-yves-vernin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Alena240113057.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}