What do we photograph on the streets?

[colint544]

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You're on a roll Colin, excellent shots all.

 

Thanks, Steve.

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[Steve Ricoh]

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[Ernest]

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Public transportation and intersections! Like Colin points out, the potential for engaging the photographic. I am not talking about street intersections but the intersection of photographic allusion and narrative intrigue. Your frame within the frame within the frame. Amid the blur is the threat of erasure by movement. Erasure by time. Two subjects, an indistinct young woman in profile and a young man, small in the frame, yet staring over his shoulder directly at the camera like a exclamation mark. Peoples Exhibit A. Is there the potential for intersection? This is a photograph that intrigues. For me, it erases the boundary of the photograph at the same time it states paradoxically that this is a photograph. I am trying to make connections, but I keep hearing the sounds of public transport.

 

 

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[Ernest]

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Raymond Carver’s short stories come to mind. What is left out is often more important than what left in. The distance between. . . .

 

Your play of light and dark. Applause, applause.

 

 

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[A miller]

it's so funny that this thread has become a sub-forum within a sub-forum

[Guest]

wow Ernest,

thanks a lot for your intense reflection.

 

I always try to tell a story with my picts,

sometimes it  works 

 

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[colint544]

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wow Ernest,

thanks a lot for your intense reflection.

 

I always try to tell a story with my picts,

sometimes it  works 

 

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lambda.

 

The above image - the figure with the balconies and windows - epic shot.

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[Steve Ricoh]

The above image - the figure with the balconies and windows - epic shot.

Fully agree, this thread and the content has made me reappraise my own vision of 'Street'. Simply taking people on the street is too simplistic. Crafting and allowing the viewer to generate his or her own story is where it's at... at it's best.

[Guest]

thank you guys.

 

inspiring thread,

wonderful feedback,

 

you made my day 

 

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[photogkellyrae]

great thread!  Street photography is so much fun…  adding a few of mine--

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[colint544]

Has anyone heard of the DIE acronym as applied to photographs? I only recently came across it, and I can't remember exactly where, but it was mentioned by a photographer.

 

It's:

 

D - Design. The shape and composition of the photograph, leading lines and so on

I - Information. Is the photograph communicating what you want it to?

E - Emotion. That often elusive magic ingredient

 

A little trite possibly, but I rather liked it as a sort of simple guiding principle to keep at the back of your mind. Lately I've been trying to remember it when I've been framing and composing pictures.

[NB23]

Because people shoot what they see but they don’t actually see what they shoot, I much prefer the acronym WYSIWYG.

 

When you start seeing the scenes as they are, and not as what you think they are, you often realize that what you were going to shoot was not worth it.

 

Wysiwyg.

[colint544]

I agree that often a scene just isn’t worth shooting. With a digital camera we can just fire away anyway, at no additional cost. Maybe, once in a blue moon, we might even get a good picture that way. I sort of feel that photography can be hard, because it’s easy to take unremarkable pictures. Good ones are all the more rewarding when you get them. And, like dressage or chess, you never really stop learning. There are always ways to improve, and there’s no limit to hit.

 

My friend Martin is often asked to judge photography competitions. He finds it reassuring that, despite modern digital cameras being capable of previously unimaginable image quality, and being equipped with superb autofocus and so on, it seems that photography still hasn’t been de-skilled. It’s just as hard as it ever was. That might be about to change in the coming years, but we’re not there yet.

[Likaleica]

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[MT0227]

Steve,

 

Your statement, more or less, draws the dividing line between a photograph and a good photograph...regardless what the subject matter is.   I think the OP was just to state "why", with some examples to generate a discussion, as opposed to being a thread within a thread to host the same.  If folks want to demonstrate why they choose to shoot Street Photography, there's already a please to share your work and rational.     

 

. Simply taking people on the street is too simplistic. Crafting and allowing the viewer to generate his or her own story is where it's at... at it's best.

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[Steve Ricoh]

Steve,

 

Your statement, more or less, draws the dividing line between a photograph and a good photograph...regardless what the subject matter is.   I think the OP was just to state "why", with some examples to generate a discussion, as opposed to being a thread within a thread to host the same.  If folks want to demonstrate why they choose to shoot Street Photography, there's already a please to share your work and rational.

 

(I) I was simply being self critical and not pointing the finger at anyone else.

 

(II) Maybe it was the intention of the OP (Colin) to start a discussion with his own pictures forming an example, but photography is an international language as it allows all to participate irrespective of mother tongue. Sometimes a thread like this can take on a virtual life of its own, beyond the imagination of the creator.

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Fantastic pictures a pleasure to see it.

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