ehh, im not really that kind of person i guess. i feel like if i tried just getting in peoples faces, the camera would take too long to focus and stuff. idk i like meeting the people and talking with them

 

this.

 

yea i was always iffy about feeling like a creep/stalker

ill grow in to doing them.. start with friends 1st

 

if you ask its to posed then becomes portraits.

heres one of my street photos.


35mm

 

Well its more of a candid I think. I like getting close up and pretty much have to be noticed. I don't have a longer lens to get further away.

 

don't get me wrong upstate, I like the pictures, but people always look different when they know they're about to have their picture taken.

People will yell at you and try and start arguments sometimes though.

edit: take a look at this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkIWW6vwrvM

Depending on what style you're going for, telephoto may or may not be what you're looking for. When I look at street shots with a telephoto, it usually looks kinda.... distant.... to me I guess. It's all a matter of opinion though.

 

dont know if i posted these awhile back.
they are all 35mm scans

 

I feel you. I like the way things look when they are caught in the moment. But for some reason, I feel like the camera might take too long and the will notice and move away. It was my first time actually doing it. It took a bit of nerve to do haha. Maybe I will take pictures then strike convo if they ask me what the hell I was doing.

 

thats why i street shoot with my yashica mat now because not many people know its a camera. works perfectly because i can take my time and have them look right at me with out them knowing im shooting them haha

 

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I'm not really happy with this as a photograph, but I'm pretty happy with her reaction. (yashica, of course)

 

what if they catch you after the (candid)shot, theyll argue the same way no?

 

They might get pissed and argue with you, but there's not really anything they can do.

 

Bruce gilden is not the end all be all of street photography... posting the same shit over and over again is lame, almost as lame as running up on someone with a flash in their face.

Just because you have someones permission to take their photo doesn't mean it has to look contrived. You can't just ask someone if you can take their picture and expect them to figure out exactly what or how you want them. Part of being a photographer and working with models or people is being able to communicate what you envision on a level your subject can understand and feel comfortable with.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Opteka-Voyeur-Right-Angle-Canon/dp/B000F49052

there ya go kids

 

ehh im not going as far as getting a right angle attachment cause i dont have the guts right now...

 

That's just a little creepy haha. Like mad spy shit. Idk, I just like having a connection with the people in the shots. I think I'm gonna try to take pics first then talk if the notice. People are just too up tight nowadays.

 

SO! today i learned about Joel-Peter Witkin. If you dont know who this man is you should look him um ASAP his photographs are fucking unreal. you wouldent believe half the shit he photographs. and its all REAL.

check him out. learn a thing or two about old photo processes

 

word, we covered this dude in art class. Shit fucking blew my brains out.