Thursday, 13 August 2015

Exercise: What is Street Photography?

Exercise: What is Street Photography?

The link to lfph.org site is not working.  Tried for an hour to find a way round it but then gave up.

I found an essay by Eric Kim on this subject and will use it as my guide.
Reference:

[Accessed: 11th. August 2015].

For the picture taking exercise I picked the brief of sitting in one place for an hour and waiting to see what turned up.  The selected place was a bench in Deal High Street outside St. Georges Church.  The camera I chose was my smallest and most discrete, a Canon G12, set on AP at f8, and with all the sounds turned off.

I wanted candid shots and so hid the camera, as best I could, in my lap and took the images using the tilting screen.  I looked at the camera as little as possible.  


The results are below.  


Boy with dog.  


Spotted by a neighbour.


Lady reading newspaper.


Pushing the prams.


Snapped snappers.

In the hour I was seated on the bench only two people appeared to spot what I was doing, one, my neighbour is featured above; the second, the lady reading her newspaper clocked me after my forth shot of her.  

Not the most exiting pictures but they do reflect Deal High Street during the time I was there.  This a technique I will use again.

The two links suggested for further study are not active:

www.inpublic.com is shown as not in use and available to buy.
www.seconds2real.com is not responsive and will not open.


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