River Dog
Always looking
This is a comment on a blog about street photography:
Made me smile, in a nice way.
Any nice stories about street work, or not so nice ones?
Can you imagine how much better HCB could have been, if only he had carried a lot more business cards and adopted this radical "Fortune Favours the Brave" stuff?
Made me smile, in a nice way.
Any nice stories about street work, or not so nice ones?
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back alley
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i have never been accused of being too polite...anywhere.
gekopaca
French photographer
I never had to be polite or not.
Usually people doesn't see me shooting.
Sometimes we look each other but it's only feeling. No words.
Usually people doesn't see me shooting.
Sometimes we look each other but it's only feeling. No words.
peterm1
Veteran
Yes I am. I miss many shots as a result. And also as a result, where possible I make a point of shooting with medium telephoto lesnes. This has two advantages. It means I do not have to be "in my subject's face" when I take the shot. And it means I can shoot wide open to minimise depth of field. (Obviously the latter also leads to some shots being lost but that is the price I pay, I guess.)
On the subject of street performers objecting to having thier photos taken, I have only ever had two performers object. Strangely both were violinists. Apparently violin playing is far too serious a pursuit for such frivolity :^) (Which kinda begs the question, why are they doing it in the street and why have they got a hat on the pavement hinting at the need for passers by to put money in it.)
Apart from violinists, its seldom a street performer objects, especially if you do drop a few toekn coins in their hat first.
I have seen some New York street pros shooting with W.A. lenses literally a couple of feet away from their subjects' faces. That may be OK for the big apple but its not for me. (How on earth do you get a natural shot of someone when you are being that invasive?) Perhaps that is not what they want.
On the subject of street performers objecting to having thier photos taken, I have only ever had two performers object. Strangely both were violinists. Apparently violin playing is far too serious a pursuit for such frivolity :^) (Which kinda begs the question, why are they doing it in the street and why have they got a hat on the pavement hinting at the need for passers by to put money in it.)
Apart from violinists, its seldom a street performer objects, especially if you do drop a few toekn coins in their hat first.
I have seen some New York street pros shooting with W.A. lenses literally a couple of feet away from their subjects' faces. That may be OK for the big apple but its not for me. (How on earth do you get a natural shot of someone when you are being that invasive?) Perhaps that is not what they want.
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