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Post by Wahoo on Jul 16, 2008 13:39:56 GMT -5
Mr. Daniel, Now you have some neat "street" shots there. Was there a festival or some special celebration? renaldo, as I understand it :Count Dracula landed in Whitby N. Yorks just over a 100 years ago on his way from Transylvania and no doubt to participate in more evil deeds In the last decade or so Whitby has become a meeting for the Goths (Gothic) about twice a year, many of these people are just fringe Goths, young women in sometimes silly clothing just there to have their photograph taken and I take my camera and sometimes oblige - all photos late April 2008.
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Post by GeneW on Jul 17, 2008 5:24:45 GMT -5
Bob, thanks for the kind comments. Photographing people in public is an increasingly contentious topic. A friend of mine who was shooting photos recently in a public park was ripped by a mother who asked him why he was taking pictures of her children and to stop immediately. The thing is, he hadn't been. People seem to be more paranoid and afraid in recent years, perhaps since 9/11.
Wahoo, nice boots and Goths!
Renaldo, thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed those B&W's. I'm impressed with street photography when I see good work, but I'm not temperamentally suited to doing it. I sometimes photograph people at events though. When people are in a happy mood, and I'm smiling with them, I guess I don't look threatening. Or maybe it's my grey hair.
Gene
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Post by Randy on Jul 17, 2008 22:04:50 GMT -5
The kind of guys you worry about your daughter coming home with.
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Post by renaldo on Jul 18, 2008 6:44:00 GMT -5
Gosh...don't you know it is the gray hair!!!!! Actually, just ask any of we grayish, distingquished looking gentlemen...lol
Happy times are always good ones to shoot, and yes, people are more open then to being photographed. One can mingle much closer and still get fine unposed images.
I also like the solemn look when I street shoot...the down-and-out, the person just ambling, etc. These shots add to what most people miss during their busy day, but which does exist unfortunately among we human beings. I can document with pics that say a million things!
I generally carry some money with me at these times and offer to subjects for letting me take their pic. And sit with them awhile and just chat or enjoy an unspoken word of human-to-human unobstrusive closeness.
It also helps to follow the old tradition of...talking and looking at least somewhat like the other person. In other words...talk much like your subject does and not belittle them. Also dress down and casual...not in a tux so that you do not clash and send out the message...that guy with the camera is up to something.
NONE of these type images are ever used by me for commercial purposes...although may be temporarily displayed in privite showings.
I do like to document and visualize a lasting image for my personal remembrance of what the Basic Element of Our Life is...the Human Being!!
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Post by GeneW on Jul 18, 2008 12:07:03 GMT -5
Yes, I've suspected all along it was the grey hair :-)
You have a nice approach to street photography, Renaldo. Very ethical, imo.
Gene
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Post by PeterW on Jul 18, 2008 15:31:11 GMT -5
My sentiments too, Renaldo.
I don't want to belittle for a moment the wonderful pictures that Gene and others take, seeing pictures where most of us don't. I really admire their artistic eye, and often try to do similar.
Maybe I'm in a minority here but not, I'm sure, among the general public, when I say that people and their everyday life are the most fascinating subjects there are. Look at the popularity of books of Victorian, Edwardian, 1920, 1930s, 1940s and so on pictures. And the popularity of TV programmes like 'All our Yesterdays' and 'The Way we Were'. Not to mention the masses of novels about times past.
What's the main subject? .... People!
I love taking pictures of people. Photographers like Paul Martin, Cartier Bresson, Bert Hardy, Bill Brandt, J. Alan Cash and a young chap by the name of Larry Burrows in his pre-Vietnam days were my early photographer idols and inspiration. They still are, even though I know I shall never achieve their standards.
Oh yes, I DO try to look for good composition in my candid shots.
PeterW
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Post by Wahoo on Jul 20, 2008 20:38:45 GMT -5
The kind of guys you worry about your daughter coming home with. PeterW and GeneW : Thanks for the kind accolades. I wouldn't worry too much about those nice, sweet gents (above) coming home with your daughter, if this person at the bottom was invited into your place would he bring a little ray of sunshine into your life ? ie. a little ray of sunshine. Whitby - April 2008
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Post by Wahoo on Jul 25, 2008 18:58:01 GMT -5
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Post by alexkerhead on Aug 7, 2008 15:15:21 GMT -5
I rather enjoy seeing the get-ups goths come up with, as long as it isn't over-the-top of course.
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Post by sctaber on Sept 28, 2008 10:59:06 GMT -5
My two best b/w shots. Taken with my trusty AE-1, 80-200mm lens, on ISO 200 Kodak film
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Post by renaldo on Sept 29, 2008 14:30:01 GMT -5
Fellow Kalamazoon...
B&W shots are my favorite.
I had a Canon AE1 years ago...in fact it was my first Canon. But for some reason, I just could not attach myself to it after using the Minolta SRT 101 for so long. Later, I got a Canon FT and loved it.
It is great when we find a fellow photog who still actively uses one of the older cameras.
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Post by sctaber on Sept 29, 2008 18:20:10 GMT -5
Hey renaldo, I love shooting with my Canon, my wife has a Minolta. She does'nt use it much though.
Scot
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Post by Wahoo on Oct 22, 2008 19:08:19 GMT -5
I had a Canon AE1 years ago...in fact it was my first Canon. I use a AE1 regularly and it's still a fine camera, something I realized was not to use those expe$$ive silver oxide or lithium batteries but buy 10 packs of SR44's (about 99p), fit 4 and shim the gap with a small clean nut or similiar. Obviously they don't last as long as the specified batteries but I discard them at the end of each year so there's nothing lost and at minimal cost.
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Post by Wahoo on Nov 10, 2008 21:44:09 GMT -5
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Post by Wahoo on Nov 10, 2008 21:50:28 GMT -5
We don't get much snow around here so here's a photo I took earlier in December 1980.
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