TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Introduction 02:18 Experience with the GR 03:43 Jim's background 04:30 How did you get into street photography? 05:24 What fascinates you about street? 06:22 Dignity 07:40 Starting Photography at 15 years old 09:04 Filmmaking as a Job 09:51 Film vs Digital 11:35 Canon P 13:50 Experience or Result? 14:45 The Future of Film 16:12 Plans for the Future? 18:18 Let's go shoot! 22:08 How to load Film with the Canon P 25:17 German ticket vending machine problems 27:50 Welcome to Altona 30:00 A lesson in not being stupid 30:38 Lara Hulo 32:50 Storytime 34:40 About taking photos of children 40:13 German Angst 42:09 What if someone took a photo of your daughter? 43:11 A beautiful story 45:02 Putting things into perspective 46:00 Closing words
The German angst segment (40:16) feels like two filters for the two personalities haha. High contrast for Samuel, softer black and white for Jim. Love photography nerd talk, thanks for another sincere and fun video!
What a treat. All monochrome. Thanks for that. Without colour, my mind can do more to create the scenes for me - and I feel less stimulated, which is refreshing. The low-key format and unpressured dialogue allowed much life and contemplation upon life to slip quietly in. Excellent videography and editing. The sound was great - that can’t be easy in urban spaces. Good work, both of you.
After your latest interview I waited and made time for this one. Jim is obviously a great guy and a serious photographer. Good production too, Sam. Thanks!
This video was a great fun to watch. It heals the soul in this times to see nice people with a great sense of humor, especially when they are photographers. ;-) Also, what you are talking about the public anxiety considering street photography, is very interesting. Thank you for this video.
Funny, I’ve been watching Jim’s channel for a bit now, had no idea you had him on here before he started it. Great guy, super funny. Great video, loved the conversation.
Jim Reed has an odd aura about him that I think if we had met, we'd be pretty good friends XD Really enjoyed this video. Really hit my slice of life genre addiction.
thoroughly enjoyed this episode. jim's work reminds me of a blend of winogrand and killip. i like how thoughtful and articulate he is but also funny as hell.
“If it is something you could explain why you took this photo, then you should always go for it.” Such a good tip. Really enjoyed this episode, Samuel. Ended up following Jim Reed as well. Seems like a top fella.
@24:48 ... I always carry a pair of foldable scissors with me. Once I have taken out the roll of exposed film with the leader and some slack still sticking out of the cartridge, I cut off the leader in preparation for putting it on the development reel. That way I also make sure I don't confuse fresh film with exposed one ;)
agree with Jim, if we take away the story of a stranger it is must for us to atleast ensure their dignity is maintained. Specially when we do it candid. Thanks for the video Sam
Love this one. Another great video, Samuel. As someone who is only comfortable doing portrait work, your channel really inspires me to get into street photography more.
I enjoyed this a lot, I watched all of it. Both of you are dropping a lot of knowledge on the Photography game and you both ate great Photographers. Well done Samuel, I enjoy watching all your videos and live streams when I get the chance to watch. Blessings brother, keep up the good work! 🙏📸
As I understand you meet for the first time. Great connection, very easy watching. thank you both for this. I really miss these long walks with a camera, good friend, beer, and food here and there. the time is very difficult for this and we are limited in our usual doing because of the second deep lockdown. despite this lockdown, I'm still taking street/life pictures every single day and of course documenting the massive anti-corrupted government protest during the last 4 months and finally started to put my stuff here on TH-cam channel as a slideshow.
Jim and I already met once before this video but you could say we were still getting to know each other :) Just had a look at your recent slideshow! Very cool... Looks very intense and I can only imagine how it must feel. We have it very relaxed here in germany but things are getting slowly bad here, too.
@@SamuelStreetlife By your meets and interviews with photographers I can say that your contact with new and kinda strange for you people (photographers) are very easy. and that's very important also for us - spectators that the conversation is floating and not too stuck on the standard questions and not interesting answers. Thank you for taking a lot at my slideshows. I always wanted to make them for my life photography projects, behind the scenes for movies and the band photography I'm doing a lot, but finally, i did the first try with these protests and I'm planning to continue with one video every week, just have no time for this. Almost everything i published with these two videos I took with Ricoh GRii :-) I'm really dreaming about that the lens was f2 and not f2.8. The protests are intense as hell but this a very long story. And about Germany - " things are getting slowly bad" - in terms of a pandemic or political situation? thank you again !!
Jim really looks like a super nice guy. But he also goes really close hallelujah. As a german it might be in our education that we are actually a little more reserved when it comes to closeness. Jim has also had some really great stories. 👍 What nobody knows is that he uploaded the picture of the african lady and 2020 took its course. 😂 one day i photographed a guy with his girlfriend. he saw his photo on instagram and wanted to have the photo so he could give it to his girlfriend. that was sweet.
what i loved about shooting film is all the decisions are made by you. you decide exposure, you decide framing and focus, you roll your film and process it and then you print it. everything based on your eye and your understanding of light and exposure. I shot leica for years. M6, Mp, M2, M3. I used 2 lenses a 35 and 50 summicron. funny because te more you use it, the more you realize you don't need a light meter. you just know by looking at a scene what aperture and speed you are going to use. i was faithful to neopan which was sadly discontinued. kodachrome and neopan and Tri-x were always in bag. i've tried other rangefinders but i think Leica has always been the easiest to focus. I hated the yashica rangefinder, the Nikon S was hard to see as well and the leica III was horrible. I havent tried the canon but now im interested. sorry, im just rambling... I love film lol
You two are great on camera together. Get someone else to film you both in Frankfurt maybe and you can shoot a lot of frames also.. A great video as always and very interesting talk on street photography.
Enjoying the video seeing Seeing film been rewound by hand take me back to the 50s and 60s when I was shooting with Single, twin liens reflects and 35mm films camera in Germany.
@40:30 About that, i understand your point, but also i can totally understand what people are thinking when you just take their pictures randomly, i have a very conflictional relationship with street photography after spending too much time on flickr, you fall into a weird rabbit hole with groups full of creep shots of the street, and yeah, that is VERY unconfortable to look at, so yeah some people really do weird stuff with the pics they take on the streets.
Also something I struggle with. I feel like it's almost impossible to not occasionally run into someone who's irritated or uncomfortable with me taking their picture. Most of the time people are either confused or don't care but it's hard to convey the feeling of someone who's taking a picture not because they're creepy but because they're just documenting the beauty/interestingness of their surroundings. I guess if they understood the motives they wouldn't be creeped out. And I'm not talking about Bruce gilden in your face type of shots just simple candid that don't portray people in a negative light. From experience looking very casual and focused at the same time usually helps but sometimes you wanna shoot when there's a few static subjects and it's harder because they feel attacked or something.
Great little vlog about a little something and he seems like a very nice guy and I’m sure if he decides to start a channel on TH-cam he will own the place within a Year.. //freddie
40:42 recently I went out during my lunchbreak to the local park and took pictures of the leaves and trees with my yashica t3. That camera has a really loud rewind sound. I didn‘t even bother to take pictures of people, there were none around and I couldn‘t do it sneaky anyway. I was taking a photo of the colourful leaves on the side of a building(I was pointed to the right) and from the left a couple came in my direction. The guy heard the camera sound and when they walked past me he turned around and asked me quite aggressively if I took their picture! I was quite surprised of his reaction as he clearly saw that I was pointed in the opposite direction. I explained him that I took a picture of the leaves. I may or may not have called him an idiot afterwards. I was so pissed off!
So he prefers the GR2 to the GR3? Or the GR to the GR3? I want to get the 2 or the 1 but is there any advantage at all in the GR1? Like is the b&w images better or something? Anyone know?
@@romanticbaldy that video was comparing them with the GR III, I'm just looking specifically at the 2 vs 1. In that video he says they're the same except for WiFi but in another video he said that the 1 processes hi-contrast b&w differently
@@romanticbaldy yeah idk, I just got the GR 2 in the end anyway. You can find it in a better condition for the price and if there is any advantage at all to the GR it's extremely minimal.
I like this guy, Jim Reed. Definitely a step up from Jae Rose. I hope Jim creates a TH-cam channel. Would love to see his perspective and that shuffle of the foot technique (chefs kiss).
How such a cool guy as Jae become so annoying? Bc of shooting on film. Film photographers looks to me as "Vegans" now. Always sharing unnecessary opinion.
At last an interview with someone who’s not obsessed with Jewellery, sorry I meant Leicas. Jim seems to have a great attitude, and not living life furtively as a photographer. One of your more interesting characters to spend the day with !
"When you're not doing something bad, why should you be nervous?" Because in Germany, people lunge at you if they THINK you're doing something bad, doesn't matter whether you actually are.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introduction
02:18 Experience with the GR
03:43 Jim's background
04:30 How did you get into street photography?
05:24 What fascinates you about street?
06:22 Dignity
07:40 Starting Photography at 15 years old
09:04 Filmmaking as a Job
09:51 Film vs Digital
11:35 Canon P
13:50 Experience or Result?
14:45 The Future of Film
16:12 Plans for the Future?
18:18 Let's go shoot!
22:08 How to load Film with the Canon P
25:17 German ticket vending machine problems
27:50 Welcome to Altona
30:00 A lesson in not being stupid
30:38 Lara Hulo
32:50 Storytime
34:40 About taking photos of children
40:13 German Angst
42:09 What if someone took a photo of your daughter?
43:11 A beautiful story
45:02 Putting things into perspective
46:00 Closing words
What is the wrist watch of Jim? Can you ask him? :)
This was a lot of fun. I wouldn't normally watch a 50 min video but time flew by
Very true. Same here haha :)
i swear it's one of your finest videos, Jim was a great guest wish you could have him again.
It was such a pleasure to be part of that great conversation! Thank you both. Loved it being in B&W too.
Jim seems like a fun guy to hang out, chill video, I'd watch content from him if he starts a TH-cam channel 👍🏻
The German angst segment (40:16) feels like two filters for the two personalities haha. High contrast for Samuel, softer black and white for Jim. Love photography nerd talk, thanks for another sincere and fun video!
What a treat. All monochrome. Thanks for that. Without colour, my mind can do more to create the scenes for me - and I feel less stimulated, which is refreshing. The low-key format and unpressured dialogue allowed much life and contemplation upon life to slip quietly in. Excellent videography and editing. The sound was great - that can’t be easy in urban spaces. Good work, both of you.
-Did I touch your lens?
=No it was just my D-filter.
This should be printed on tshirts.
Always a pleasure watching top-caliber artists interviewing other artists. They are just like kids having fun.
What a chill dude. I am really enjoying this episode. This is quickly becoming my favorite photography channel.
After your latest interview I waited and made time for this one. Jim is obviously a great guy and a serious photographer. Good production too, Sam. Thanks!
This was such a great video.You two have a nice chemistry. Jims work reminds me of the old classic photographers.
Such a wonderful and honest time. I'm really happy about the topics discussed. And great photos!!
Thanks for another quality vid. loving the longer format and casual conversation, perfect mix of life and photography.
Great interview, you both have very good chemistry together and it shows.
This video was a great fun to watch. It heals the soul in this times to see nice people with a great sense of humor, especially when they are photographers. ;-) Also, what you are talking about the public anxiety considering street photography, is very interesting. Thank you for this video.
Seems like a great guy! Thanks for the interview!
17:00 I agree 100%, would love to see more videos from him!
Funny, I’ve been watching Jim’s channel for a bit now, had no idea you had him on here before he started it. Great guy, super funny. Great video, loved the conversation.
Jim Reed has an odd aura about him that I think if we had met, we'd be pretty good friends XD
Really enjoyed this video. Really hit my slice of life genre addiction.
Hey, he looks like another version of Gustavo Minas lol
Nice video as usual btw, you're going on a right track!
This was great. Just catching up on your back catalogue, love it.
thoroughly enjoyed this episode. jim's work reminds me of a blend of winogrand and killip. i like how thoughtful and articulate he is but also funny as hell.
I've just seen this three and a half years after the fact, but it's one of the best films you've ever done.
“If it is something you could explain why you took this photo, then you should always go for it.”
Such a good tip.
Really enjoyed this episode, Samuel. Ended up following Jim Reed as well. Seems like a top fella.
@24:48 ... I always carry a pair of foldable scissors with me. Once I have taken out the roll of exposed film with the leader and some slack still sticking out of the cartridge, I cut off the leader in preparation for putting it on the development reel. That way I also make sure I don't confuse fresh film with exposed one ;)
I enjoyed this one.
Jim should be a regular like Bello. 😉
I will order my GR3 this week.
Thanks Sam
Very enjoyable video; thanks both. And you handle a really difficult topic very well and naturally.
agree with Jim, if we take away the story of a stranger it is must for us to atleast ensure their dignity is maintained. Specially when we do it candid. Thanks for the video Sam
Oh God, its finished! Thanks, Lintaro! I really enjoy your 50 minutes video. It's like a movie. Haha
Love this one. Another great video, Samuel. As someone who is only comfortable doing portrait work, your channel really inspires me to get into street photography more.
I enjoyed this a lot, I watched all of it. Both of you are dropping a lot of knowledge on the Photography game and you both ate great Photographers. Well done Samuel, I enjoy watching all your videos and live streams when I get the chance to watch. Blessings brother, keep up the good work! 🙏📸
Definitely do Frankfurt with Jim; he is a hoot!
Love this type of content. Photography and fun. Keep it coming. 😊👍🏼
As I understand you meet for the first time. Great connection, very easy watching. thank you both for this.
I really miss these long walks with a camera, good friend, beer, and food here and there. the time is very difficult for this and we are limited in our usual doing because of the second deep lockdown. despite this lockdown, I'm still taking street/life pictures every single day and of course documenting the massive anti-corrupted government protest during the last 4 months and finally started to put my stuff here on TH-cam channel as a slideshow.
Jim and I already met once before this video but you could say we were still getting to know each other :) Just had a look at your recent slideshow! Very cool... Looks very intense and I can only imagine how it must feel. We have it very relaxed here in germany but things are getting slowly bad here, too.
@@SamuelStreetlife By your meets and interviews with photographers I can say that your contact with new and kinda strange for you people (photographers) are very easy. and that's very important also for us - spectators that the conversation is floating and not too stuck on the standard questions and not interesting answers. Thank you for taking a lot at my slideshows. I always wanted to make them for my life photography projects, behind the scenes for movies and the band photography I'm doing a lot, but finally, i did the first try with these protests and I'm planning to continue with one video every week, just have no time for this. Almost everything i published with these two videos I took with Ricoh GRii :-) I'm really dreaming about that the lens was f2 and not f2.8. The protests are intense as hell but this a very long story. And about Germany - " things are getting slowly bad" - in terms of a pandemic or political situation? thank you again !!
Jim really looks like a super nice guy. But he also goes really close hallelujah. As a german it might be in our education that we are actually a little more reserved when it comes to closeness. Jim has also had some really great stories. 👍
What nobody knows is that he uploaded the picture of the african lady and 2020 took its course. 😂
one day i photographed a guy with his girlfriend. he saw his photo on instagram and wanted to have the photo so he could give it to his girlfriend. that was sweet.
A lot of fun! Thx for the video!
what i loved about shooting film is all the decisions are made by you. you decide exposure, you decide framing and focus, you roll your film and process it and then you print it. everything based on your eye and your understanding of light and exposure. I shot leica for years. M6, Mp, M2, M3. I used 2 lenses a 35 and 50 summicron. funny because te more you use it, the more you realize you don't need a light meter. you just know by looking at a scene what aperture and speed you are going to use. i was faithful to neopan which was sadly discontinued. kodachrome and neopan and Tri-x were always in bag. i've tried other rangefinders but i think Leica has always been the easiest to focus. I hated the yashica rangefinder, the Nikon S was hard to see as well and the leica III was horrible. I havent tried the canon but now im interested. sorry, im just rambling... I love film lol
Hamburg! Altona!!! Love this place. I don’t know how I landed on this video
It’s nice to know that you are from Hamburg
That was fun! so like this format. nice job man, keep going this!
You two are great on camera together. Get someone else to film you both in Frankfurt maybe and you can shoot a lot of frames also.. A great video as always and very interesting talk on street photography.
Enjoying the video seeing Seeing film been rewound by hand take me back to the 50s and 60s when I was shooting with Single, twin liens reflects and 35mm films camera in Germany.
In Hamburg, you can go up and down Steindamm around 4 pm. The light hits good and the people are interesting.
Very interesting video and nice seeing you in the neighborhood :)
Great video 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏…. 50 minutes passed by in a blink of a eye!!
Just a chat between a couple of guys shooting the breeze and the streets and no sign of pretentious bullshit. Loved it. Cheers.
Was a great and refreshing vid actually
I had really enjoyed it. Thanks for the video
Was great hanging out with you guys
love your videos, they are nice and does not have any commercial aspect. danke
It was wonderful!
Jim seems down to earth. I enjoyed this conversation a bunch. I'd subscribe if he started a channel.
Another great Vlog, this guy was cool.. just gotta say he reminded me off Sam Rockwell (meant as compliment) 😁.. 👍📸
Who is the busker? She's fantastic! [Never mind: Lara Hulo. It was in the Timestamps list. Good on you for acknowledging her.]
@40:30 About that, i understand your point, but also i can totally understand what people are thinking when you just take their pictures randomly, i have a very conflictional relationship with street photography after spending too much time on flickr, you fall into a weird rabbit hole with groups full of creep shots of the street, and yeah, that is VERY unconfortable to look at, so yeah some people really do weird stuff with the pics they take on the streets.
Also something I struggle with. I feel like it's almost impossible to not occasionally run into someone who's irritated or uncomfortable with me taking their picture. Most of the time people are either confused or don't care but it's hard to convey the feeling of someone who's taking a picture not because they're creepy but because they're just documenting the beauty/interestingness of their surroundings. I guess if they understood the motives they wouldn't be creeped out. And I'm not talking about Bruce gilden in your face type of shots just simple candid that don't portray people in a negative light. From experience looking very casual and focused at the same time usually helps but sometimes you wanna shoot when there's a few static subjects and it's harder because they feel attacked or something.
Great interview! Keep em coming
Great interview and content!
Thanks Henrik :)
This was so GREAT 🥰
Really enjoyed this video. Also followed Jim on instagram.
Cheers guys, nice watch! NIkon S3, Canon P. are far better than the Leicas imo.
Seems like a bromance was brewing up there. Nice video, Jim seems like a nice guy.
Great little vlog about a little something and he seems like a very nice guy and I’m sure if he decides to start a channel on TH-cam he will own the place within a Year..
//freddie
great video. do more of these!
That was awesome! 50min of joy LOL 😆
this was so funny...thank you guys.
Super video! What's the viewfinder attachment in the hotshot? Interested in that one.
We all love this friendship
Love this episode
Really enjoyable show. Thank you.
This is good content, well done!
40:42 recently I went out during my lunchbreak to the local park and took pictures of the leaves and trees with my yashica t3. That camera has a really loud rewind sound. I didn‘t even bother to take pictures of people, there were none around and I couldn‘t do it sneaky anyway. I was taking a photo of the colourful leaves on the side of a building(I was pointed to the right) and from the left a couple came in my direction. The guy heard the camera sound and when they walked past me he turned around and asked me quite aggressively if I took their picture! I was quite surprised of his reaction as he clearly saw that I was pointed in the opposite direction. I explained him that I took a picture of the leaves. I may or may not have called him an idiot afterwards. I was so pissed off!
Really fun video love it
Love this! What did you shoot this video on btw?
This one is going to be great!
A lot to dig in... I hope :)
Brillant foot noise technique !
Unterhaltsam wie die meisten Videos. 👍
Very entertaining! Goood👌
So he prefers the GR2 to the GR3? Or the GR to the GR3?
I want to get the 2 or the 1 but is there any advantage at all in the GR1? Like is the b&w images better or something? Anyone know?
Basically the only difference is the GR2 has wifi...
Sam has a video a month or two ago with an actual comparison. Check it out!
@@romanticbaldy that video was comparing them with the GR III, I'm just looking specifically at the 2 vs 1. In that video he says they're the same except for WiFi but in another video he said that the 1 processes hi-contrast b&w differently
@@detectivejonesw Oh sorry. You had so many questions in your post and I thought that video answered your questions well enough.
@@romanticbaldy yeah idk, I just got the GR 2 in the end anyway. You can find it in a better condition for the price and if there is any advantage at all to the GR it's extremely minimal.
I like this guy, Jim Reed. Definitely a step up from Jae Rose. I hope Jim creates a TH-cam channel. Would love to see his perspective and that shuffle of the foot technique (chefs kiss).
Totally agree mate....I skipped all of the parts with Jae Rose.
How such a cool guy as Jae become so annoying? Bc of shooting on film. Film photographers looks to me as "Vegans" now. Always sharing unnecessary opinion.
GR has some magic indeed!
CCD sensors that Ricoh used were the best.
Well done!
do you think it’s less weird when people confront you about taking their picture if you’re using film?
What kind of film camera does Sam use?
This is fun 😊
Love his Attitude
this is not an interview... this is a date hehe
How were Jim's photos scanned?
Thoroughly enjoyed watching this! What camera did you use? :)
It was a minolta CLE! Thanks for watching :)
Jim, you are a crackup. It looks like you guys had fun.
What's you filming gear?
At last an interview with someone who’s not obsessed with Jewellery, sorry I meant Leicas.
Jim seems to have a great attitude, and not living life furtively as a photographer.
One of your more interesting characters to spend the day with !
SLS, I agree , watched it to the end, what a great video, well done.
what did you film this video with?
I really didn't know that Sam Rockwell is taking such cool photos
"When you're not doing something bad, why should you be nervous?" Because in Germany, people lunge at you if they THINK you're doing something bad, doesn't matter whether you actually are.
That was fun!
Grt video.. filmed on what?
Jim Reed is giving out Sam Rockwell vibes.
I am glad to read I am not the only one thinking this
Want to know more about the busker!
Haha guys I had so much fun watching, I could watch this forever. 😊
ps. please don´t photoshop a D in my mouth 🤨