Australia/New Zealand Great 'street' locations

[st3ph3nm]

No one's mentioned the street festivals!

Brunswick street festival has some great characters wandering around - in fact, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, is probably a good summer weekend street shoot, regardless. St. Kilda festival likewise, and Acland street always - a great location & also great characters.

Cheers
Steve

 

[James Burton]

No one's mentioned the street festivals!

Brunswick street festival has some great characters wandering around - in fact, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, is probably a good summer weekend street shoot, regardless. St. Kilda festival likewise, and Acland street always - a great location & also great characters.

Cheers
Steve

I've been meaning to get to Lygon St Festa for years but can never figure out when it is. Google fails me The others I'd have to search the same way.

I have tried Acland st. a few times (this last Sunday being the latest). I never take a shot. Lots of people walking & gawking but I'm looking for something a bit more photogenic. Does anybody have some shots in their galleries?

James

 

[James Burton]

IMHO, a danger with 'street photography' is that the 'location' becomes predominant in one's thinking, rather than the 'image.'
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Now that I've met Erl, I kinda have a different take on this, and my arguing with him in this thread doesn't work any more.

This guy took what looked to me like thousands of shots in the 2 hours we were chatting. I think that for Erl - making a shot from nothing much is just how he works. For me, I have taken too many shots of what looked to me at the time like interesting faces only to find out later that the lack of location (actually light, background, line-ups, motion) makes the final shot rather worthless. So now I look for those other compositional elements - and because they are rare in combination I try to set them up by choosing location. e.g. here's a place where walkers are funneled through a narrow opening where the light is OK, all I need to do is get the timing right.

It'd be great to see some of those RD-1 shots Erl.

Thanks,
James