I guess Cartier-Bresson & Robert Frank, among others, were rank amateurs.
I guess Cartier-Bresson & Robert Frank, among others, were rank amateurs.Please guys, street photography doesn’t mean being stealthy or like a ghost. What’s the point? Shooting strangers that don’t know you are present is so uninteresting.
What’s the goal of shooting people walking across a store sign, exactly?
As a photographer, you must engage and be engaged. All the “from the hip” and “stealthy” stuff is a mark of amateurism.
IMO.
Peter -------All the summicron lenses I use on my M3 all set f16 so I'm not sure what you are talking aboutI hate to be a smartass, but you're going to have a hard time setting an M3 to f16.
Giving you a hard time. The M3 doesn't have f-stops, the lens does.Peter -------All the summicron lenses I use on my M3 all set f16 so I'm not sure what you are talking about
Please guys, street photography doesn’t mean being stealthy or like a ghost. What’s the point?
What’s the goal of shooting people walking across a store sign, exactly?
As a photographer, you must engage and be engaged. All the “from the hip” and “stealthy” stuff is a mark of amateurism.
IMO.
I guess Cartier-Bresson & Robert Frank, among others, were rank amateurs.
And I confess to some morbid curiosity about trying my Crown Graphic on the street, handheld. I think if I'm pushing some 400 speed film 1 or 2 stops I can make a go of it (hyperfocal being more elusive with LF film at lower speeds)
1. The French title of HCB's most famous book is Images a la sauvette, literally pictures on the fly or on the run.Well, for sure, they weren’t invisible. Let me tell you that!
Their photography let’s you think so. And there lies the culprit. People look at good street photography and they’re like “wow that’s stealthy”, but the reality is totally the opposite.
1. The French title of HCB's most famous book is Images a la sauvette, literally pictures on the fly or on the run.
2. For the book Magnum Streetwise, about street photography as practiced by Magnum photographers "...To be able to approach such a scene, unobtrusively get within camera range and take one or two frames, and then depart leaving the subjects untroubled and the location untouched is akin to being a cat burglar."
3. I don't have the direct quote, but in the film Don't Blink, Robert Frank talks about having to hide his camera when he went into some of the bars to take photos, that the crowd was rough.
What BSName dropping doesn’t impress me. At all.
As someone who has numerous prize winning photographs and a few million clicks in the counter (no jokes), I know what I am talking about.
Good, high quality street photography is all about careful, surgeon-like composition. There is no room for fluke, unfareful compositon and bad timing!
A careful composition, good timing and a presence is still “à la sauvette”.
All this comes with a lot of experience.
1. The French title of HCB's most famous book is Images a la sauvette, literally pictures on the fly or on the run.
2. For the book Magnum Streetwise, about street photography as practiced by Magnum photographers "...To be able to approach such a scene, unobtrusively get within camera range and take one or two frames, and then depart leaving the subjects untroubled and the location untouched is akin to being a cat burglar."
3. I don't have the direct quote, but in the film Don't Blink, Robert Frank talks about having to hide his camera when he went into some of the bars to take photos, that the crowd was rough.
I don't think HCB shot a single frame from a hip, at least not according to HCB.I guess Cartier-Bresson & Robert Frank, among others, were rank amateurs.
Nikon FM with a 35mm f/2 NikkorWas curious what everyone favorite cameras are for street photography? Don't get to shoot street photos too often where I live but love my Olympus XA2.
Ever tried to take it while holding it to your lower partI don't think HCB shot a single frame from a hip, at least not according to HCB.
What BS
Not unusual, really, when dealing with a subject as nebulous and contentious as street photography. Many people dislike the genre, many misunderstand it and many more practice it without a clue.I find it strange that a thread titled "Whats Your Favorite Street Photography Camera?" is full of insults instead of images and the cameras used to produce them.
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