Street Photography C&C

Buzz Lightyear

Well I finally made time in the darkroom to get some shots developed.
C&C welcome plus any tips and advice.

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Asking for a help out



Teenage Baby


One too many

*Dallas

great images... i really wana smack that suder out of her mouth

jen_23

They are very good photos. I think the first one would look well in an article on homelessness in Ireland.

bradnailer

Fine looking photo's, but why does almost all "street" photography seem to be mostly homeless people and people way down on their luck.
There's so much that happens on the streets every day the latter being a small part of it.

Covey

Theres so much more to "Street Photography" than homeless people.

Buy a book by Cartier Bresson/Doisneau
http://www.robertdoisneau.com/
and get out there it's all around you.

Sorry these do absolutely nothing for me. Why not ask one of them to spend a few hours taking shots of their "Life" when they're not begging and comatose on the street. Give him a few shots for himself as well.

I always try and provide constructive critique, but these type of shots and this type of "approach" to street photography just anyones the hell out of me.

T.

bradnailer

Covey wrote: »

Theres so much more to "Street Photography" than homeless people.

Buy a book by Cartier Bresson/Doisneau
http://www.robertdoisneau.com/
and get out there it's all around you.

Sorry these do absolutely nothing for me. Why not ask one of them to spend a few hours taking shots of their "Life" when they're not begging and comatose on the street. Give him a few shots for himself as well.

I always try and provide constructive critique, but these type of shots and this type of "approach" to street photography just anyones the hell out of me.

T.

I couldn't agree more with no disrespect meant to the original thread poster.
As I said the thread photo's are fine but the above link shows a much more pleasing view of street life and the possiblest that are on offer.

sheesh

I like the one with the soother
The other 2 are technically good but unfortunately have been done to death. I think if you want to add the emotional impact to those kinds of pictures you need to give some sort background to the person and how they got to that stage in their life. (I suppose you could be completely dishonest and make it up! )
and anyone who lives in dublin or any large urban center will have see this scene and it no longer shocks them, I don't think they relate to homeless people.

for the first and last one I would look at your black and white conversion. as I'm not liking it on the first one.

but Teenage baby is good.

0utpost31

I agree with sheesh here, but image #1 may have had more impact if you took it from a different angle instead of head on.

AnimalRights

Judging them as they are upped without getting into "done to fck" argument I think #1 is the best.
#2 I find totally pointless.
#3 is cropped way too tight or missing body parts.

Paulw

I actually really like #2. It's different, well composed and a good image.

The other two do nothing at all for me.

Buzz Lightyear

Well I did ask for C&C ......

Ok photos 1 & 3 are probably done to death, and yes there is more to "street life" than picking on the homeless. This is definitely the case for image 1. I happened to be passing in my car and took a quick "cheap" shot. For images 2 & 3 I did "work" a bit harder. One of my first times standing on a street corner / side of the path taking shots, I suppose building up courage, which was clearly not evident in image 1.

I was also getting used to LR doing conversions, and I personally liked the tones in #3. Image #2 was just a bit of fun and seem to have been taken by others in that light. I thought bringing out the soother in colour gave emphasis to the title, and yep I too would like to smack it out off her mouth .

I appreciate the comments even though I was initially shocked at some of them, although I can now see why - that is after all the idea behind C&C.

Thank you.

Buzz

hussey

If you want to look at street photography a good website is
http://www.in-public.com/

It is not just people you find on the street, which is what your photos seem to be shot as.

Now I think number 1 is good, it is a gritty raw image. 2 the pop-colour is silly and comes across childish.

bradnailer

Great link hussey, street photography without any bums etc what a change.

Buzz Lightyear

hussey wrote: »

If you want to look at street photography a good website is
http://www.in-public.com/.

Thanks for the link. It's actually quite an interesting point of view and worth considering

hussey wrote: »

2 the pop-colour is silly and comes across childish.

Not quote sure what you mean by childish. Are you refering to the subject or my interpretation.

0utpost31

Do any of ye ever bother with model release forms with street photography?

Great link hussey, street photography without any bums etc what a change.

plus one

hussey

Buzz Lightyear wrote: »

Not quote sure what you mean by childish. Are you refering to the subject or my interpretation.

In my opinion it just doesn't look good, I can kinda understand what you were trying, but I don't think the colour tone matches the image.

Pop colour to me should make a certain area stand out. Classic images are multicoloured umbrella's, a red rose, an animal's eye colour.
all these are usually large and immediately make the object stand out.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/envisage_photography/2677937053/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgrat/2039620235/
two nice examples.

To me, sepia represents an "old-time" feel. So by adding colour to a very small area, to me didn't really hit it.

To me your photo is about the emo girl, with the sad look. By adding colour you are adding happiness, which goes against the image.

thebaz

No. 3 for me by far , i do like the conversions as well --
1 and 2 don't work for me , and i agree about the colouring above , take it out and it will be a more powerfull image

RCNPhotos

Whatever about being done to death etc etc, number 3 for me is my favorite. Love the PP. Just love the crop and everything, the tone, the lot.