Tag: street
-
Why is so much street photography just bad snaps?
I am struggling to understand why so much of what we see from street photographers especially on FaceBook, Instagram and YouTube is so very bad. Often it’s bland, vacuous and of no purpose whatsoever. And then you run into someone like Steven Tanno’s YouTube videos of shooting street photography in places like Kyoto, Budapest, Vienna,…
-
How To Shoot A Protest
This Sunday anti-Israel rallies planned for Al-Quds Day have the potential to turn violent. These annual protests are expected to take place at major cities across the country. Previous protests have attracted some who glorify extremists and call for the death of Jews and chants of Death to Israel and Death to America are common.…
-
Street Videos
The Oakville Camera Club is offering members an opportunity to learn a little bit about street photography in a few weeks. We’re thinking of starting at a local coffee shop for a little chat about street photography and what it is and what it isn’t and then we’re hitting the sidewalks of Oakville, Ontario. In…
-
Walk On The Wild Side
The photographers at the Oakville Camera Club are planning a street photography workshop and walk coming up in March. So what is street photography? Despite what you might have heard it’s whatever you want it to be. Street photography is an opportunity to walk around your community carrying your camera. Maybe you want to document…
-
The Photographer In Your Face
I talked about The Oakville Camera Club’s Exploration # 37 “Strangers Up Close And Personal” in my last post but there’s more! This teaching event is all about shooting street photography but with the twist that the photographer must make some sort of personal connection with the subject. So how do you go about walking…
-
Does Your Street Photography Need To Mean Something?
Have you watched endless You Tube videos of Face Book photography sites where the street photography seems absolutely vacuous, meaningless and well…boring? If so, maybe you aren’t seeing what the artist saw! Case in point is an excellent video on You Tube from “The Photographic Eye” site called The Problem with “Art” Photography Explained For…
-
Why Is Street Photography So Hard To Do Right?
It’s a warm day in February (Saturday, Feb. 10) and the Toronto Film Shooters are off on what’s called Jo-Anne’s Pastry and Chocolate Trail Through The City That’s Jo-Anne with the bag next to Marion just right of center. Note the wide variety of cameras from Leicas dating back to the 30s to twin-lens Rolleiflex…
-
Taking It To The Streets
Street photography was historically the original subject of many of the first photographers who working with the most primitive of cameras and ancient wet-plate technologies to produce some of the most iconic street images of all time. So how do you become a street photographer? The simple answer is, of course, you take your camera…
StreetShooters 