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This thread is suffering from overposting by a few members; I have hidden some posts. It is a an unwritten convention that we leave space for other participants. The reason is twofold: Overposting drowns out the other posts and, as important, if one floods a thread, the viewers lose interest and won't even look at those posts any more. It is equivalent to hogging a conversation. So: Please don't make endless posts with a large number of images, they are deadly boring, and don't po
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I wander around my home city of Glasgow a fair bit. I always have either my Leica M Monochrom mk1, or an analogue M loaded with black and white film with me. I think that finding interesting photograp

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A couple more. Cheers, guys.

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Some really really nice work, guys. I like going on the forum as much as the next person, finding out about the next incredible lens, and all that. But it's always nice to see that we actually go out and use our cameras, and to see exactly how we use them.

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This is a great thread. Only discovered it yesterday. Thanks for starting it Colin.

 

I love street photography. It's very challenging but also very rewarding. I can get lost for hours just walking around, looking. Not sure what I'm looking for but when something comes up, you recognise it.

 

There are some incredible images here and real talent.

 

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Hi Ernst,

 

Agree that taking pictures of the everyday things we see on the street is hard. I think that’s why it’s rewarding when it all comes together and you get something. Two lovely pictures you’ve posted there. Really like the atmosphere.

 

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For me "street photography" has become incredibly predictable in recent years with its own standard tropes and cliches. A person walking under an amusing sign being the most obvious one. I'm glad to see that most of the imagery seen in this thread is much more inventive. Street photography doesn't have to turn into a parody of itself. There is plenty of room for invention and imagination.

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I wish it were possible to have exactly the same scene, endlessly repeatable. You could put a series of photographers into it, they’d all see it slightly differently. Even dramatically differently.

I'm not sure I agree, having been to plenty of photowalks and the like. About 80% will take the same photo, but the remaining 20% will do something wildly different, much as in the rest of life. The secret is to plug into that 20%.

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Captive Audience

 

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I'm not sure I agree, having been to plenty of photowalks and the like. About 80% will take the same photo, but the remaining 20% will do something wildly different, much as in the rest of life. The secret is to plug into that 20%.

I’m pretty much agreeing with you. That’s what I mean about only slightly differently (the 80%) and the dramatically differently (the 20%).

 

Mostly it’s easy to go for the obvious shot, but I like how, even if everyone does it, some will have their own take. There’s a documentary about William Eggleston, where his assistant is interviewed. He talks about the time Eggleston got up from the table and photographed, literally, a bag of rubbish. The assistant decided to do the same thing. But his picture wasn’t anything great, whereas Eggleston’s picture of the same bag of rubbish was a work of art.

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Street photography is something completely new to me. I have been photographing for ages, I've just discovered Street. Very fascinating. Street always has something, the photographer just has to see and implement the right situation. I love ist.

 

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The contradiction in street photography

Technically imperfect in terms of content emphasized.

I like it a lot to work like that

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