Sydney Hot Babes Street Photography

[SCraig]

Word of advice, OP ... Stay FAR away from the southern USA with your attitude. Stick a camera in the wrong face in places around here and you'll need surgery to remove it from some place you don't want it to be.

 

[2WheelPhoto]

Winning thread right here

 

[2WheelPhoto]

Word of advice, OP ... Stay FAR away from the southern USA with your attitude. Stick a camera in the wrong face in places around here and you'll need surgery to remove it from some place you don't want it to be.

Yeah and if you here one of our southern gals solemnly say "ah heh-ul naw" you better RUN! And her concealed weapons permit is the least of your worries

 

[jake337]

be more specific please? What is wrong with this picture apart from her expression.

It has a certain artistic statement to it. A sort of modernist feeling. It's like, "Hey,pervy guy with your camera at the mall, get the eff away from me,you creep!" The world needs photos like that.

This is really depressing, Yesterday was the first time I really took the courage to the street. It was the first time doing street photography. Had people calling cop on me and stuff. Sad to say this was my best picture, because most of the are taken from side of the person as I didn't have the courage.

How can I photograph people up close from the front without getting in trouble?

Derrel, if that how people really think of me then I don't really see me getting into photography any more. Street photography is the only type that interest me and maybe portrait but I don't have that kind of money to buy expensive DSLR and light equipment. I just bought a X100 online and I already don't feel like use it this weekend after I get it.

Go and talk to them first.

I see two kinds of street photography. although there may be more. One involves long lens and capturing moments that are very candid. The second involves short lens but I see the best results when a photographer strikes up a conversation first then ask if they can take a photograph. It is not easy as many are people are shy. Some of the best street photographers are very people friendly individuals.

Street photography is not easy. You have to scout out your locations first, finding the best angles and backgrounds and then wait. Wait for the right moment, right light, right situation happening in front of you.

 

[cgipson1]

Winning thread right here

Whats the matter, 2Wheel? Don't care for PWAC's? lol

 

[SCraig]

Yeah and if you here one of our southern gals solemnly say "ah heh-ul naw" you better RUN! And her concealed weapons permit is the least of your worries

You got that right! Living in Nashville the streets downtown are always filled with interesting people whose goal is to be the next great music sensation. I avoid them

My "Street Photography" efforts revolve around special events such as the Tennessee Renaissance Festival, Zombie Walks at Halloween, and other events where people enjoy being photographed and expect it. Those I enjoy, walking around on the street sticking a camera into the face of someone who doesn't want it there I do not.

 

[jake337]

Charlie is it along the lines of kittywithacamera?

Agreed, most people on this forum seem to one a Kittywithacamera. They don't have the balls to do what I did lol.

Taking pictures of trees, birds, dog, wall, rock... takes no courage. Any one do that.

Maybe not courage, but skills and knowledge to create something worth looking at. Unlike anything you've posted. Again skilled street photographers do not just point and shoot. The plan out their locations and times of day for these locations, waiting for beautiful light to cast on the unknown subjects they have in front of them.

If this is the kind of photography you want to get into you can practice shooting without looking through the view finder, at your hip instead so they don't see you taking them.

Like these randoms:

But I think it's always better to engage your subject first, judge their reaction to the camera, then take an exposure if they seem cool with it.

 

[Kombipete]

Good article on Chris Weeks Street Magician: The Photography of Chris Weeks by $techgnotic on deviantART

 

[FinancialWar]

thank you guys, I will take your advices into heart this weekend when I get to shoot with my Fujifilm X100. However it is even harder to be more discrete with the X100 than the S95 since it is bigger and it is not full black like the S95. But I will stand a bit further from the subject.

 

[IByte]

thank you guys, I will take your advices into heart this weekend when I get to shoot with my Fujifilm X100. However it is even harder to be more discrete with the X100 than the S95 since it is bigger and it is not full black like the S95. But I will stand a bit further from the subject.

.....Did we just have a breakthough O.O?

 

[imagemaker46]

We need a new term... PWAC! Anyone want to guess what it means?

pro with a camera?

Prick with a camera.

 

[imagemaker46]

thank you guys, I will take your advices into heart this weekend when I get to shoot with my Fujifilm X100. However it is even harder to be more discrete with the X100 than the S95 since it is bigger and it is not full black like the S95. But I will stand a bit further from the subject.

Just hide in the bushes.

 

[pgriz]

I think the word we're missing here is "respect". If you respect your subject, then you will want to show the subject's character, imply a story, make them a protagonist in visual irony. You do not "prey" on them, show them in a bad light, or take images that ridicule them. Whe that respect is there, the image you create is sympathetic and can be honest. Without respect, you get hostility, defensiveness and conflict. It's an attitude that works as a filter for your mind, and guides your eye.

The photographer that I linked to earlier has gone back to where he made his shots, and would (if he could find them) show his subjects the images he had made. Many (but not all) appreciated that gesture. The point for me was that he was prepared to share with them his vision of them, and it was not an unsympathetic vision. Again, part of what made him an effective photographer, was that he scouted out the locations where he wanted to shoot, and he was present often enough that the locals knew him as the guy with the camera, ie, part of the human background in those areas.

 

[jowensphoto]

Word of advice, OP ... Stay FAR away from the southern USA with your attitude. Stick a camera in the wrong face in places around here and you'll need surgery to remove it from some place you don't want it to be.

Yeah and if you here one of our southern gals solemnly say "ah heh-ul naw" you better RUN! And her concealed weapons permit is the least of your worries

Can attest to this.

 

[FinancialWar]

Word of advice, OP ... Stay FAR away from the southern USA with your attitude. Stick a camera in the wrong face in places around here and you'll need surgery to remove it from some place you don't want it to be.

Yeah and if you here one of our southern gals solemnly say "ah heh-ul naw" you better RUN! And her concealed weapons permit is the least of your worries

Can attest to this.

I don't understand this. So they are allowed to carry a gun and more?

Also are southern girls the African American ones or the white cowgirls from Texas or what?