Trindade (The green white stripe cap sleeve t-shirt)

Rua do Carmo, 1 (The guy who had just attended Sunday mass)

Trivia (CXXIII) - The delayed introduction

i shoot strangers in the streets of porto, portugal

My name is Ricardo Porto and I shoot strangers in the streets of Porto, Portugal. I’ve been doing it for the last 4 and a quarter years, a hobby turned crusade. I always shoot alone and most of my pictures are posed portraits. I choose people that I find interesting and I ask them for a pic. They usually say yes.

I have one camera, one fixed lens, two batteries, one gray card and one lenspen and this is the only gear I use. No backpack, no photo bag, no tripod, no flash, no mega-zoom.

I usually walk the same city areas, mainly downtown, but as I like it to be kind of random, I never prepare my photowalk in advance.

I publish daily on my blog and all portraits are captioned with the place where they were taken and a brief description of what caught my attention.

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Camera: I use a Panasonic GF2 Micro Four Thirds camera + 20 mm f 1.7 lens. It's a little bit old but I got attached to her and it's difficult to end the relationship, though i have secret thoughts about other cameras.

Settings: aperture priority, usually at f2.2-2.8 (depending of the number of subjects in the pic), custom WB (5350 k) and ISO 100.

Post: I use lightroom just to give a bit contrast (+10), clarity(+20), less highlights (-30), adjust WB if needed and resize (720 short edge).

Rua Sá da Bandeira, 270 (The plaid trooper hat)

Rua de Santo Ildefonso, 135 (The excess inventory)

Trivia (CXXII) - The Flint Magazine article

I was featured for a second time on Flint Magazine. This sounds really cool in english. Check the link below and in the way subscribe the magazine:

«The Boat Man & The Mini Titanic»

http://flintmag.com/goa_titanic/

Rua de Santa Catarina, 276 (The portuguese zamarra)

Rua Fernandes Tomás, 847 (The unusual Sunday at the salon)

Largo Mompilher (The cold december afternoon at the café)

Rua Fernandes Tomás, 506 (The cute girl whom I scared the hell out of)

Rua Formosa x Rua de Santa Catarina (The catholic priest)

Rua Fernandes Tomás, 725 (The girl who had previously promised me a pic)

Trivia (CXXI) - Pro Advice

"It should come as no surprise that I am in love with this little camera. Something about it has gotten me to take more photos in the last three months than I have in the last two years combined. In fact, this camera was one of the impetuses that led me to Nepal — I wanted a great subject on which to use it. 

A GF1 outfitted with the 20MM lens represents the following: a compact, beautiful little machine capable of producing archival quality photographic RAW data. It’s always with me. Almost never a burden. And every time I dump a day’s worth of shooting into Lightroom, I feel like that little kid so long ago, rediscovering why I became infatuated with photography in the first place."

Mod, C. 2009. "The GF1 is a near perfect travel camera - What I love about this camera". craigmod.com/, [blog] December, Available at: http://craigmod.com/journal/gf1-fieldtest/ [Accessed: 13 Jan 2015].

Rua de Santa Catarina, 39 (The girl who had just lost one of her gloves)

Praça da Liberdade, 126 (The quick portrait during working hours)