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10/22/2006 06:32:59 PM · #101 |
I try to carry my camera when I go the city centre for things like shopping and shoot anyone and anything that I come across that I find interesting. There are many shots of street musicians as they often play interesting music. I often stop and listen and shoot a few as well.
I haven't been able to shoot much though. I don't live anywhere close to the city now and I haven't been shooting much for a while.
    
     
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11/10/2006 08:35:14 PM · #102 |
xion = guru :)
one from last night
nick
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11/10/2006 10:28:16 PM · #103 |
Getting better at it. I actually managed to start walking up to people, striking up a conversation and making portraits tonight. I've been struggling with asking people about taking portraits for the last 6 weeks. Working through my friends, but this evening I just went out and did it.
Not the best pictures ever, but something of a revelation at least for me, to stand 2 feet in front of someone and take their picture.
Click the image for the blog speil
Message edited by author 2006-11-10 22:29:05.
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11/12/2006 02:13:18 PM · #104 |
I have been dipping my toe in Street photography for a little while now,
Here is a little selection below
Let me know what you think?
  
  
  
  
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11/12/2006 05:51:02 PM · #105 |
Brookied-I love the third one in the top row, the best. Makes you wonder what they are talking about. Great eye, nice timing.
    
some of my latest from thet last few weeks
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11/12/2006 06:13:21 PM · #106 |
  
Would have rather not followed Pawdrix.
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11/14/2006 08:57:37 AM · #107 |
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11/14/2006 10:07:01 AM · #108 |
"It's gone far enough," said the President of the Association of Granters and Holders of Nearly Perfectly Useless Degrees, Bob (formerly Barbara) Cady-Stanton, in New York City. "People think it's 'concerned photography' or 'socially relevant.' Actually it's just faux photojournalism of something handy that can't fend for itself. It's harder to take pictures of squirrels."
(it almost reads like an Onion article)
So funny and so true...Squirrels ARE harder to shoot than the homeless. For starters, they're much quicker than the homeless. Better work ethic, I suppose?
 
It's ironic how my shooting pattern, so completely mirrors that statement. LOLOLOL
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11/14/2006 10:29:14 AM · #109 |
Originally posted by e301:
As to the recurrent question of 'how do you get up the nerve'? Well, I'm not sure I have an answer. I'm not a pushy person - I don't call people chasing work, get in people's faces, hassle for stuff, generally. But the strange magic things that people do in public is irresistable; you have to be quick, you have to be accurate, you have to be able to assess a composition in a split second, you have to know absolutely how your camera works without taking your eyes off your subject. Never ask permission, never approach your subject - otherwise they know you're there, know you're shooting, and what would be the point of that? You'd get a series of photographs of people basically posing for the camera; you might as well get your friends and family to dress up for you and save a lot of potential hassle.
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This is pretty much what I wanted to say only much better. I knew somebody understood.
Pawdrix -- strange, I've been taking more and more photos of squirrels lately too... |
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11/14/2006 10:35:37 AM · #110 |
Originally posted by e301:
Never ask permission, never approach your subject - otherwise they know you're there, know you're shooting, and what would be the point of that? You'd get a series of photographs of people basically posing for the camera;
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That's certainly a valid way to do street photography. Though many of the so-called 'greats' didn't shoot that way. They were in there, participating with a rangefinder and a wide angle lens. Their subjects knew they were there, they just didn't care.
People get bored and stop posing pretty quickly, but there is still an intimacy in the picture that's missing from something taken with a 200mm lens.
It's harder to be part of the scene and capture it, than shoot from far away and people do pose. But I find I like the results a lot more when it works.
Though a DSLR is probably the wrong tool for that sort of shooting.
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11/14/2006 10:39:32 AM · #111 |
Thanks for the link! :)
Somebody needs to forward this to  Joey Lawrence, who is so eager to document the "homeless of Toronto". He might not know about the ban. :) |
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11/14/2006 10:41:32 AM · #112 |
I agree with you, Gordon, but I also want to say that I've looked thru 1000's of images of street scenes shot using telephoto lenses (there's many at pbase) - and I enjoy them almost as much as the close up, wide angle ones. It's still pictures of people being people, and I enjoy both perspectives.
There's just a "cowardly" connotation with telephoto street photography, and perhaps rightfully so.
Originally posted by Gordon:
but there is still an intimacy in the picture that's missing from something taken with a 200mm lens.
It's harder to be part of the scene and capture it, than shoot from far away and people do pose. But I find I like the results a lot more when it works.
Though a DSLR is probably the wrong tool for that sort of shooting. |
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11/14/2006 10:47:05 AM · #113 |
Originally posted by hopper:
There's just a "cowardly" connotation with telephoto street photography, and perhaps rightfully so. |
No, there's more. The feeling of depth is gone when you use a tele lens for street shots, they often come out quite lifeless. Wide and normal lenses are the way to shoot in the street.
I even find my 50/1.4 to be too long for street work, on a cropped-sensor DSLR. |
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11/14/2006 10:50:53 AM · #114 |
Originally posted by hopper:
I agree with you, Gordon, but I also want to say that I've looked thru 1000's of images of street scenes shot using telephoto lenses (there's many at pbase) - and I enjoy them almost as much as the close up, wide angle ones. It's still pictures of people being people, and I enjoy both perspectives. |
Well, I do enjoy those types of pictures done well too. But I don't feel that engagement with the subject. I feel like a voyeur, intruding on whatever thing they were doing. I take pictures like that myself, but I find I question why I do it. Is it because I don't want to disturb or change what I'm seeing, or is it that I'm too afraid to engage and invoke that human contact that's required to make the scene. You don't have to go and ask to take their picture and get into a half hour conversation every time, but some tacit recognition and permission for the photo can make all the difference in how the end result looks. The awareness and involvement can really take pictures to the next level.
Sort of like looking into a pub from outside, vs. being at the bar and part of the conversation. Both can be interesting experiences, but one has maybe more value as part of connecting with other humans.
A lot of this is also probably just me, and my own issues with photographing other people. I've been rambling on my blog about trying to even shoot portraits of friends and the problems I have with that. John & I have been chatting about shooting strangers on this post and there are a fair number of others too.
Other than pimping for my blog, I am finding it is getting easier to do this, the more I make myself move towards the particular fears I find that I'd initially avoid.
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11/14/2006 10:52:01 AM · #115 |
Originally posted by xion:
I haven't been able to shoot much though. I don't live anywhere close to the city now and I haven't been shooting much for a while. |
The fact that you havent been shooting as much hasnt been lost on me. Your rare and idiosyncratic view of the world HAS however been missed very much. |
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11/14/2006 10:59:57 AM · #116 |
Originally posted by e301:
I'm not a pushy person - I don't call people chasing work, get in people's faces, hassle for stuff, generally. But the strange magic things that people do in public is irresistable; you have to be quick, you have to be accurate, you have to be able to assess a composition in a split second, you have to know absolutely how your camera works without taking your eyes off your subject. Never ask permission, never approach your subject - otherwise they know you're there, know you're shooting, and what would be the point of that? You'd get a series of photographs of people basically posing for the camera; you might as well get your friends and family to dress up for you and save a lot of potential hassle.
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Thank you for sharing what works for you. Your pictures are unique and you capture the magic of people so well... I appreciate learning from those I admire. |
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11/14/2006 11:35:28 AM · #117 |
Originally posted by JPR:
Pawdrix -- strange, I've been taking more and more photos of squirrels lately too... |
Jason....do I smell a budding partnership???
Tri-State Squirrel Images R Us
No Commercial Potential Ltd.
"No job too small"
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11/14/2006 11:36:30 AM · #118 |
Originally posted by pawdrix:
Originally posted by JPR:
Pawdrix -- strange, I've been taking more and more photos of squirrels lately too... |
Jason....do I smell a potential partnership???
Tri-State Squirrel Images R Us
No Commercial Potential Ltd. |
Or a 24-hour squirrel speed challenge
Not a squirrel on speed challenge though.
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11/14/2006 11:53:52 AM · #119 |
Speed Challenge???
I see a whole new industry, opening up here. Think BIG!!!
I'm having a vision.....and a very slow day at work.
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How's about this? A remake of the film Taxi Driver(1976) featuring an ALL Squirrel cast. I'm pretty sure it's never been done...
To keep on topic...
 
2 from this weekend
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11/14/2006 12:48:46 PM · #120 |
Originally posted by pawdrix:
Originally posted by JPR:
Pawdrix -- strange, I've been taking more and more photos of squirrels lately too... |
Jason....do I smell a budding partnership???
Tri-State Squirrel Images R Us
No Commercial Potential Ltd.
"No job too small" |
Mine don't have the same urban personality as yours do. I'm going more for an "environmental portrait" kind of thing. hahahaha
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11/14/2006 12:55:11 PM · #121 |
I don't do much street, and alas, no squirrels. :(
 
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11/14/2006 01:53:24 PM · #122 |
Watching this thread really makes me realize how much I miss doing street photography.
Here's one I took a while back. Not quite a squirrel, but certainly squirrely:
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11/14/2006 02:07:14 PM · #123 |
While walking through the streets of NYC I came across a man yelling at someone....
It's amazing what people will do for a living.
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11/14/2006 02:13:08 PM · #124 |
Originally posted by TonyT:
While walking through the streets of NYC I came across a man yelling at someone....
It's amazing what people will do for a living. |
From pawdrix. Inflation in action
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11/14/2006 02:20:53 PM · #125 |
It's the SAME GUY! That's great! Look at his sign, he upgraded. When was your pic taken. Mine was 08/28/2006.
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