Author: StreetShooters.ca
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Why Is So Much Street Photography Just Crap?
Have you noticed that so much of so-called street photography posted on photography websites on Facebook and Instagram is just vacuous crap? Sure it’s exposed correctly and edited nicely and I’m sure 75% of it at least was shot with a $3,000 to $5,000 vintage Leica (or a $10,000 new one) but the posted image…
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Getting It Right In Camera
There’s a lot of online disagreement about the meaning of “getting it right in camera”. When I ran the black and white darkroom for a daily newspaper there was an obvious difference between negatives that were properly exposed, framed and composed and had been properly developed in the right chemicals at the right temperature with…
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Do You Want 242K Followers?
Maybe you already know Ryan Daniel? Online he’s also known as pale bule wave where he posts portraits of strangers in Portland, Oregan. Over the years he as amassed an amazing number of followers for his simple street portraiture work. Perhaps you’d like to start a street portraiture page featuring your images of people you…
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What Have We Lost?
Photo by Peter West As our friend Tatian Hopper writes in her introduction to the YouTube video “What Digital Photography Took Away” we’ve lost something important when it comes to digital photography. “Grain. Blur. Light leaks. Imperfect exposures. These are all things that digital photographers fix instantly or even delete. But what if those weren’t…
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The Ghosts Are Still Here
Troy Williams is a lot more comfortable setting up street portraits. Where a lot of street photographers shoot candids and Troy still does but his superpower is just walking up to people and asking for a portrait. Shooting in New York Troy has no end of willing subjects. This is a master class in how…
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2,500 Undeveloped Rolls
Photo by Peter West That’s the number of rolls of film that Garry Winogrand discovered in his darkroom upon his early death at 56. Winogrand is considered by many to be one of the absolute masters of street photography. Known to shoot with both black and white and colour film cameras around his neck it’s…
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What’s Your Visual Signature?
How do I put this kindly? Most of what I see passing for street photography online and yes I am including my own work is basically awful. Over and over again, day after day we see the same meaningless superficially abstractions (not my words as you will see) that are just clever arrangements of elements.…
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DXO PhotoLab 9 or Lightroom?
I was a long-time Lightroom (LR) user having taken weekend workshop courses and online tutorials. I appreciated its database function to ingest and store images on my external hard drives. But after I retired I didn’t need all the power and functions to be found in LR and I wasn’t thrilled with the costly subscription…
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Do You Know What You’re Feeling?
Photo by Peter West Today’s video comes from The Photographic Eye YouTube channel. “How Joel Meyerowitz Shoots The Hardest Subject In Potography” is a 13 minute “how-to” video about moving from taking snapshots (which most of us do whether or not we wil admit it) to adding that certain something that makes your image come…
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This Shouldn’t Work
Sometimes bad photography actually works. Case in point is Tatiana Hopper’s new video on William Klein called Why “Bad” Photography Works. Klein’s images break just about every rule of photography. Where many of us strive for clear images that are well framed and composed and exposed and in focus. Klein’s images avoid clarity but use…
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