Tag: street-photography
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You Need Lessons!
I was a self-taught photographer….and it showed. I started my career freelancing…a euphemism for being unemployed….back in the early 1970s. When I got my first full-time newspaper job I didn’t even know how or when to bounce a flash (a basic news photographer’s trick). So when I retired after nearly 60 years of professional shooting…
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So How Evil Is FB?
It’s worse than you might think! We’re talking specifically FaceBook photography sites. These are the free sites that individuals setup and then as they are the “administrators” they then rule hopefully with a benevolent hand. But as these self-appointed administrators set the rules, they also dictate the ethics and morales and general deportment of their…
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Should I Ask?
When it comes to street photography a lot of new photographers ask whether or not they should get permission from their subjects before shooting. And the answer is, of course, it depends. Asking permission will automatically kill any spontaneity and naturalness to the image. A lot of the best street photographers don’t. I just got…
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What FB Gets Wrong
Photo by Marion West You see it everyday on FaceBook. Somebody, usually somebody new to photography, asks “what or what settings did you use to get that photo?” What they should have asked was “how did you see that photo!” Asking what settings or what camera tells you nothing about how the photographer saw the…
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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…
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Seeing
Before you can shoot anything you have to be able to see it. Sounds obvious doesn’t it but seeing is a lot harder than it sounds. It’s a gift if you can “see” things which would make for good photographic images. Very few people, including many amateur and professional photographers, can’t see all that well.…
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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…
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Shoot The Kids
I’ll admit I don’t do kids very well. I used to when I was a young newspaper photographer but not so much anymore. But this shot from my local camera club’s recent photo competition will do for today’s post. We’re talking about shooting the kids and why that should be an essential part of your…
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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…
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Street Scenes
Did you watch a few of the videos about street photography mentioned in the last post? What did you notice? When I watched a lot of them I noticed there appeared to be several distinct styles of street photography. One was more documentary than anything else. Images of buildings or statues and artwork showed the…
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