Attention Street Photographers

[Nubbs]

Agree about shooting blind at times. I have made some great shots. i did it a bunch for awhile when I really want to get a good candid of somebody. i got quit good at framing shots shooting blind.

 

[SupNY]

A little one built-in to a small, discrete camera.[/QUOTE]

Took the words out of my mouth :thumbup:

 

[manaheim]

My stomping grounds is Washington DC, not everyone in that city wants to be "chatted" up by a photographer who just took their picture!! LOL.

25+ years in DC and I never chatted up anyone. But the subjects often have questions when you shoot them and since I have no reason to hide what I'm doing (and I still get candids btw), I answer them. If I'm going to use their image, I feel that's the least I can do.

That said, it is up to you what you do but if you do enough street shooting, you will soon find out why interesting street shooters use normal to, even more often, slight wide angle lenses. Besides the 3 I mentioned earlier, there is a technical reason why long lenses don't work very well.

Just curious... what's the technical reason...

Something tells me a wide angle at a reasonable range (not too close) might be more complimentary for some reason, but I can't tell you why I think that.