David Solomons - street photographer - video

[will-i_am]

i love watching these type of videos maybe not this one in particular but they motivate me to get out and shoot. Theres a good one of Daido Moriyama cruising around shinjuku with a point and shoot and just taking hip shots and stuff like that really cool to watch and then he goes into the darkroom and prints one off its just nice to see into his world.

 

[sleepyhead]

If you get one great photo (not just good, but great) in 200 you're doing well IMO. Are you sure it was digital? I thought it might be a Konica Hexar AF.

It is a Hexar AF.

 

[sleepyhead]

It's interesting, the odd composition of his shots look like they are from the hip, but he is apparently looking through the viewfinder to frame what he's shooting. If I walked around photographing people that blatantly, I'd probably be hassled multiple times in a day. Haha.

One way to avoid getting hassled or beat up while doing Street Photography is to walk around with a mate carrying a video camera.

a) you have a companion to help defend you
b) the fact that someone is following you around and filming your every instructive move, as well as recording all your inciteful wisdom of the Street, must mean you are either a Celeb or a true Artiste (and therefore you become the spectacle rather than the everyday man or woman on the street

😉

 

[jsrockit]

One way to avoid getting hassled or beat up while doing Street Photography is to walk around with a mate carrying a video camera.

a) you have a companion to help defend you
b) the fact that someone is following you around and filming your every instructive move, as well as recording all your inciteful wisdom of the Street, must mean you are either a Celeb or a true Artiste (and therefore you become the spectacle rather than the everyday man or woman on the street

😉

Haha, funny...and probably true.

 

[achman]

I would love for him to go out and only have one frame left in his camera...it would force him to visualize the shot in his head instead of his viewfinder.

Also, if he would try using the DOF scale, prefocus, and shoot without raising his camera to his eye each time. This would make shooting much fasterand way less of a pretentious production. Random shots of people walking on the street are not so interesting IMHO. Some of his other work is nice.

 

[ianstamatic]

Personally i liked it. Thanks for posting.

i can understand its not evryone's cup of tea but really why the negativity ??

 

[jsrockit]

I would love for him to go out and only have one frame left in his camera...it would force him to visualize the shot in his head instead of his viewfinder.

Come on, there's more than one way to work in Photography. Everyone visualizes in their head or they would just shoot at random without looking through a viewfinder 100% of the time... you always have to decide when to bring the camera up to your eye and then shoot i.e. see something worth photographing.

 

[mclucas08]

I do not see what's wrong with these videos. I think what attracts people, what we most like about them is how they behave photographers whom we admire about his work, but making pictures on the street, doing the type of photography we like to do, see how they behave on the street to the target audience. Of course that seems more inetesante to know what camera you use, although it might be interested in what focal used.