First set of photos!

[WangLung]

Let me know what you guys think!

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[ABJayce]

I think they're decent, there were some interesting shots in the group. what camera and lens were you using?

 

[W.Fovall]

put your f stop # lower and change the focus point to single center point so you can choose your focus subject

 

[WangLung]

Thanks for taking a look guys!
ABJayce: I am using a Canon 70D with the plastic fantastic Canon 50mm f1.8 currently. I found myself wishing I had a wider lens quite often.
W.Fovall: Thanks for the tip! Thats to reduce blur right?

 

[W.Fovall]

as far as the focus points, yah.. mine is on center focus %90 of the time... 50 in the street on a crop sensor is a tough shot.. I use the 70-200 F4L on the streets, you want a narrow field to show the subject and not get in peoples faces where they might punch me lol. wide shots are more fun for landscapes.

Thanks for taking a look guys!
ABJayce: I am using a Canon 70D with the plastic fantastic Canon 50mm f1.8 currently. I found myself wishing I had a wider lens quite often.
W.Fovall: Thanks for the tip! Thats to reduce blur right?

 

[sashbar]

as far as the focus points, yah.. mine is on center focus %90 of the time... 50 in the street on a crop sensor is a tough shot.. I use the 70-200 F4L on the streets, you want a narrow field to show the subject and not get in peoples faces where they might punch me lol. wide shots are more fun for landscapes.

Thanks for taking a look guys!
ABJayce: I am using a Canon 70D with the plastic fantastic Canon 50mm f1.8 currently. I found myself wishing I had a wider lens quite often.
W.Fovall: Thanks for the tip! Thats to reduce blur right?

Yes, wide shots are much tougher on the street, but you need a wide lense to get really good street shots. 50 mm is OK for some types of street portraiture, but generally is too long in my opinion. 35 mm would give you more freedom but require to be closer to your subjects. I shoot street with 28 mm (18 mm crop) fixed and it is tough because you need to be very close and compositions become tougher also. But you get perspective and feeling of "being there". Anything longer than 50 I consider a weak lense for street outside street portraits. Long zooms are for birds, not people. You can shoot street from the safe distance, but you do not fool anyone. So my advise - if you want to be a good street shooter, go wider, not longer.

even with your shots here , as soon as you stand right besides your subject, the shot instantly gets more interesting. With your first shot you had to sit besides the guy on the right to have him up close. Then it could be a great shot. Here we see a couple meters of empty pavement before something starts to happen and this is a no no.

 

[ABJayce]

as far as the focus points, yah.. mine is on center focus %90 of the time... 50 in the street on a crop sensor is a tough shot.. I use the 70-200 F4L on the streets, you want a narrow field to show the subject and not get in peoples faces where they might punch me lol. wide shots are more fun for landscapes.

Thanks for taking a look guys!
ABJayce: I am using a Canon 70D with the plastic fantastic Canon 50mm f1.8 currently. I found myself wishing I had a wider lens quite often.
W.Fovall: Thanks for the tip! Thats to reduce blur right?

Yes, wide shots are much tougher on the street, but you need a wide lense to get really good street shots. 50 mm is OK for some types of street portraiture, but generally is too long in my opinion. 35 mm would give you more freedom but require to be closer to your subjects. I shoot street with 28 mm (18 mm crop) fixed and it is tough because you need to be very close and compositions become tougher also. But you get perspective and feeling of "being there". Anything longer than 50 I consider a weak lense for street outside street portraits. Long zooms are for birds, not people. You can shoot street from the safe distance, but you do not fool anyone. So my advise - if you want to be a good street shooter, go wider, not longer.

even with your shots here , as soon as you stand right besides your subject, the shot instantly gets more interesting. With your first shot you had to sit besides the guy on the right to have him up close. Then it could be a great shot. Here we see a couple meters of empty pavement before something starts to happen and this is a no no.

I agree with this. I find that, especially for beginners, using the wider primes also gets you more comfortable with people. Having to get up close to them to get really well composed shots. When I had to first start posing models in school that was the big thing to get over was just that awkward feeling of being in someones personal space with a camera. In my area I stick to wide primes unless I am heading to the local park which I will bring the 70-200 to get some images of the ducks on the pond.

 

[DanOstergren]

as far as the focus points, yah.. mine is on center focus %90 of the time... 50 in the street on a crop sensor is a tough shot.. I use the 70-200 F4L on the streets, you want a narrow field to show the subject and not get in peoples faces where they might punch me lol. wide shots are more fun for landscapes.

Thanks for taking a look guys!
ABJayce: I am using a Canon 70D with the plastic fantastic Canon 50mm f1.8 currently. I found myself wishing I had a wider lens quite often.
W.Fovall: Thanks for the tip! Thats to reduce blur right?

Yes, wide shots are much tougher on the street, but you need a wide lense to get really good street shots. 50 mm is OK for some types of street portraiture, but generally is too long in my opinion. 35 mm would give you more freedom but require to be closer to your subjects. I shoot street with 28 mm (18 mm crop) fixed and it is tough because you need to be very close and compositions become tougher also. But you get perspective and feeling of "being there". Anything longer than 50 I consider a weak lense for street outside street portraits. Long zooms are for birds, not people. You can shoot street from the safe distance, but you do not fool anyone. So my advise - if you want to be a good street shooter, go wider, not longer.

even with your shots here , as soon as you stand right besides your subject, the shot instantly gets more interesting. With your first shot you had to sit besides the guy on the right to have him up close. Then it could be a great shot. Here we see a couple meters of empty pavement before something starts to happen and this is a no no.

I've seen some excellent street shots taken with telephoto focal lengths. Yes, while street shots may be traditionally taken with wide lenses, a street shot taken with a longer lens does not make it worse or wrong.

 

[W.Fovall]

as far as the focus points, yah.. mine is on center focus %90 of the time... 50 in the street on a crop sensor is a tough shot.. I use the 70-200 F4L on the streets, you want a narrow field to show the subject and not get in peoples faces where they might punch me lol. wide shots are more fun for landscapes.

Yes, wide shots are much tougher on the street, but you need a wide lense to get really good street shots. 50 mm is OK for some types of street portraiture, but generally is too long in my opinion. 35 mm would give you more freedom but require to be closer to your subjects. I shoot street with 28 mm (18 mm crop) fixed and it is tough because you need to be very close and compositions become tougher also. But you get perspective and feeling of "being there". Anything longer than 50 I consider a weak lense for street outside street portraits. Long zooms are for birds, not people. You can shoot street from the safe distance, but you do not fool anyone. So my advise - if you want to be a good street shooter, go wider, not longer.

even with your shots here , as soon as you stand right besides your subject, the shot instantly gets more interesting. With your first shot you had to sit besides the guy on the right to have him up close. Then it could be a great shot. Here we see a couple meters of empty pavement before something starts to happen and this is a no no.

I've seen some excellent street shots taken with telephoto focal lengths. Yes, while street shots may be traditionally taken with wide lenses, a street shot taken with a longer lens does not make it worse or wrong.

i think its a better way to capture a subject vs a busy shot with allot of scenery to distract. 200mm isn't enough to get animals without scaring them away... wildlife needs at-least a 300+

 

[sashbar]

Yes, wide shots are much tougher on the street, but you need a wide lense to get really good street shots. 50 mm is OK for some types of street portraiture, but generally is too long in my opinion. 35 mm would give you more freedom but require to be closer to your subjects. I shoot street with 28 mm (18 mm crop) fixed and it is tough because you need to be very close and compositions become tougher also. But you get perspective and feeling of "being there". Anything longer than 50 I consider a weak lense for street outside street portraits. Long zooms are for birds, not people. You can shoot street from the safe distance, but you do not fool anyone. So my advise - if you want to be a good street shooter, go wider, not longer.

even with your shots here , as soon as you stand right besides your subject, the shot instantly gets more interesting. With your first shot you had to sit besides the guy on the right to have him up close. Then it could be a great shot. Here we see a couple meters of empty pavement before something starts to happen and this is a no no.

I've seen some excellent street shots taken with telephoto focal lengths. Yes, while street shots may be traditionally taken with wide lenses, a street shot taken with a longer lens does not make it worse or wrong.

i think its a better way to capture a subject vs a busy shot with allot of scenery to distract. 200mm isn't enough to get animals without scaring them away... wildlife needs at-least a 300+

I do not think it is the better way, but it is the easiest way for sure. By using a long lense you are limiting yourself to a particular kind of street portraiture that I personally do not find very challenging or appealing. Effectively you isolate a subject from the street, take him out of context and rob the image of the street atmosphere. I myself succumb to this type of shots quite often, simply because it is easy. But most of the time it is a defeat to me rather than a win.

 

[EOV]

You captured a nice wedgie in 9. And yes, of course I noticed that.

 

[WangLung]

as far as the focus points, yah.. mine is on center focus %90 of the time... 50 in the street on a crop sensor is a tough shot.. I use the 70-200 F4L on the streets, you want a narrow field to show the subject and not get in peoples faces where they might punch me lol. wide shots are more fun for landscapes.

Thanks for taking a look guys!
ABJayce: I am using a Canon 70D with the plastic fantastic Canon 50mm f1.8 currently. I found myself wishing I had a wider lens quite often.
W.Fovall: Thanks for the tip! Thats to reduce blur right?

Yes, wide shots are much tougher on the street, but you need a wide lense to get really good street shots. 50 mm is OK for some types of street portraiture, but generally is too long in my opinion. 35 mm would give you more freedom but require to be closer to your subjects. I shoot street with 28 mm (18 mm crop) fixed and it is tough because you need to be very close and compositions become tougher also. But you get perspective and feeling of "being there". Anything longer than 50 I consider a weak lense for street outside street portraits. Long zooms are for birds, not people. You can shoot street from the safe distance, but you do not fool anyone. So my advise - if you want to be a good street shooter, go wider, not longer.

even with your shots here , as soon as you stand right besides your subject, the shot instantly gets more interesting. With your first shot you had to sit besides the guy on the right to have him up close. Then it could be a great shot. Here we see a couple meters of empty pavement before something starts to happen and this is a no no.

My noob is showing I got weak in the knees. I thought of it but decided against it, I guess I found something to work on. :thumbup:

You captured a nice wedgie in 9. And yes, of course I noticed that.

I feel like it would have been better if that wasn't there but that seems to be the most noticed thing

 

[DanOstergren]

I've seen some excellent street shots taken with telephoto focal lengths. Yes, while street shots may be traditionally taken with wide lenses, a street shot taken with a longer lens does not make it worse or wrong.

i think its a better way to capture a subject vs a busy shot with allot of scenery to distract. 200mm isn't enough to get animals without scaring them away... wildlife needs at-least a 300+

I do not think it is the better way, but it is the easiest way for sure. By using a long lense you are limiting yourself to a particular kind of street portraiture that I personally do not find very challenging or appealing. Effectively you isolate a subject from the street, take him out of context and rob the image of the street atmosphere. I myself succumb to this type of shots quite often, simply because it is easy. But most of the time it is a defeat to me rather than a win.

It's all subjective to style and preference. I don't think it's limiting at all if it happens to be a look that you prefer, and it's not robbing the photo of anything if it's the look that you are striving for. It is still capturing a moment on the street, and in a way that does not interrupt the moment that is happening or allow for the subject to put on a contrived facade for the camera. Being up in the subject's face is going to cause the subject to react to the camera, but if that is the moment the photographer is looking to capture then it's a matter of preference. How is it not challenging? Walking up to a person and asking to photograph them is easy. Capturing a unique moment that is worth capturing as it happens without interrupting it takes skill and timing, and a keen eye to spot a moment as it's unfolding; that is challenging.