Day out on the Street - any tips???

TobiasV · Dec 14, 2013

Been shooting out and about on the streets... and wondering if anyone has any tips on what to focus on, or do better?

Sample of what I do:
Travel with MyCity - Creatography Labs

Is full frame better?

I have a 7D.

Is something like the 6D better on the Street?

Thnx for the input....

The_Traveler · Dec 14, 2013

Your style is all over the place and the pictures vary tremendously in quality, imo.
In many of them, it isn't clear what you thought was interesting and why you chose to show it to us.

480sparky · Dec 14, 2013

Just kinda looks like the first two or three times you went out with a new camera to 'try it out'.

Derrel · Dec 14, 2013

I would not say that full-frame is inherently "better" than APS-C for that kind of photography. It's 'different', and the 6D would have a decided edge over the 7D in really dark, low-light situations at high ISO levels, but I did not see any low-light, nightclub, cabaret, dinner theatre type stuff where the 6D would be a "better" tool. Use whatever camera you own or have, and practice with it.

You need a camera you are familiar with, and a lens set that you KNOW really well, so that the camera and the lens it has on it becomes totally transparent, totally "automatic" to shoot with. No futzing around, no dilly-dallying, zooming, no fiddle-farting around. One of the reasons world-famous shooter Henri Cartier-Bresson used a Leica and 50mm lens for over 98% of his pictures was, I think, because he knew EXACTLY what the 50mm lens would "see" when he shot. That is one of the things a prime lens does; after a while, the user KNOWS,beforehand, what the lens will see, in a wide range of scenarios, even before he brings the camera up to fire...if you shoot one lens length over and over and over, after a while, you know exactly what that lens will do.

It's like eating with a fork...you can put bites of food into your mouth every single time, without stabbing yourself in the eye or the cheek.

Victo · Dec 14, 2013

Yes, a camera that you know well is always better than the camera you are not quite familiar with.
I guess these new FUJI X-series cameras are made for this kind of street photography.