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Not a guide to street photography

From your article: "Practice until it becomes natural, like breathing. You breathe, don't you?"

I do normally but I have noticed that I subconciously stop breathing as I take the picture.



Steve.
 
BrianPhotog said:
LOL

I hope you're not shooting large format, then
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The non-breathing is only for the shutter pressing bit.

But I did notice that I did it even if the camera was on a tripod!


Steve.
 
Brian,

Thank you for the great article. As you can see from my avatar street photography is rather new to me. I enjoyed and learned from your article, but would like more. You said, “… I know and use the technical aspects of the medium, which are well known and I won't go into here.” I would like to go into them.

I have just finished “Henri Cartier-Bresson, a Biography” by Pierre Assouline. I read it because I like HCB’s composition and wanted to learn more for my LF work. Now I find that I am interested in learning more about the whole genre called Street Photography. Can you or others direct me to sources?

Thank you,

John Powers
 
I'm glad that you enjoyed the article and that it helped you. By "technical aspects", I meant things that apply to photography in general...like average exposure, using the aperture to control DOF, shutter speed to control motion & sharpness, etc... .

I am working on a couple of articles about composition...the things I look for in a scene. You can register at the Dead Link Removed or subscribe to the RSS feed of my blog (I will publish the articles in both places) to be notified when I post them.
 
I have registered. Thank you.
Any other sources from you or others would be appreciated.

John
 
Ask and ye shall receive.

Thank you denmark.yuzon. With dial up connection it was a start the download and go to bed process for 165 pages. All has arrived and I will look today. Thank you.

Just after posting my request I picked up the snail mail. B&W magazine, issue 66, April, 2009 arrived. There is a concentration of articles celebrating the Magnum agency and many of its famous street photographers. I am not sure if this issue has arrived at the booksellers yet, but it looks very exciting.

Thank you all. I am enjoying a new learn.


John Powers
 

I'm going to head to Page One tomorrow and see if they have it in yet. I really want see that issue.
 
"B&W magazine, issue 66, April, 2009" Perhaps I should add that this is the US B&W as even in this hinterland I see an English B&W and an Australian, both vastly different in content. I don't know if there are more countries represented.

John
 
I've never been able to tell if that piece by Chris Weeks was intended to be a spoof, but if anyone really believes that nonsense.... The photos included should be enough proof that he should be taken lightly, let alone the "content" of the piece.
 
jmal said:
I've never been able to tell if that piece by Chris Weeks was intended to be a spoof, but if anyone really believes that nonsense.... The photos included should be enough proof that he should be taken lightly, let alone the "content" of the piece.
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Yep, the Chris Weeks thing is basically a guy ranting up and down on methods which he'd love to put in motion himself - hence he "teaches" it instead. Serious potty mouth.
 
sounds like closing your eyes in the darkroom when loading film.
 
phyllis72 said:
sounds like closing your eyes in the darkroom when loading film.
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I actually do that Always have...and probably always will and I have absolutely no clue why. Maybe I should kleep taking the meds

Bob H
 
I only close my eyes when loading metal reels. When loading sheet film in the darkroom I keep an eye open so I can "see" where the sheets falls when I drop it.

-rob
 
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