Candid street
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Lovers, candid shot, Washington Square Park, NYC. Copyright
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This shot was taken in Copacabana in 2006, a little town in the north of Bolivia, situated on the bank of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world at 3800 mts. / There was a big celebration in town that day and so much to see and discover. But I was so tired that I decided to sit down and rest for a while when those two men sat just in front of me. I took so many pictures of them but this one is my favorite.
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Shadows on a street in Aswan, Egypt.
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Reflection in a store window in midtown Manhattan, NYC. Copyright
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/ / Photographer for Hire – All Occasions – Mail Me :) / / My rules for photography and art are very simple – I like it, or I don’t… / / Thanks for visiting my folio :) / I certainly appreciate your taking time to view what I’ve been up to, and enjoy reading your comments. / / / Writings (or ramblings) / Music of the Spheres / Another World / Time & Tears / The 3rd / The 10th / Weaver / High-Flyer / The In-Between Place / The Haggard Crone / Come, Dark / Chandelier Brain / Eat Me / You’re Strange, Rick / Ever-Queen / Sleeping / The Black, White & Grey
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Candid, Washington Square Park, New York Copyright
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Photographer for Hire – All Occasions – Mail Me :) / / My rules for photography and art are very simple – I like it, or I don’t… / / Thanks for visiting my folio :) / I certainly appreciate your taking time to view what I’ve been up to, and enjoy reading your comments. / / / / / Writings (or ramblings) / The 3rd / The 10th / Weaver / High-Flyer / The In-Between Place / The Haggard Crone / Come, Dark / Chandelier Brain / Eat Me / You’re Strange, Rick / Ever-Queen / Sleeping / The Black, White & Grey /
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Candid/Street photography - a few tips.
by Mark GermanToday I was asked by someone for a few tips on shooting street/candids. Many people like this genre, but it is not the easiest to perform…
Today I was asked by someone for a few tips on shooting street/candids. Many people like this genre, but it is not the easiest to perform successfully for many reasons, and often shots come out like – erm… snap shots. Since I took the time to write these brief pointers up for my friend, I thought I may as well share. Feel free to add, contest, debate, or send me lots of money. That last bit was a joke. Street/Candid / A few pointers: - A mid-zoom lens is ideal for candids. I use a 70-200mm on a crop body, and that would be fine for a full frame, also. If you do not have access to something in this range and/or can’t afford it, then concentrate on wider street scenes instead, and work within your equipment limitations. You do not need to have very expensive gear to do street. - 80% of people will be flattered you are taking their photo. Don’t try and hide it too much – and smile a lot. Walk up to people afterwards, and show them what you took (if digital). Without a long lens, you will more then likely be noticed most of the time. My rule is smile – and they smile back :) / (a hefty monopod can come in handy if things get out of hand) - 15% of people will not like their photo taken and either try and hide or cover their face or something. If you notice this – let them go – easy :) Respect people and their wishes. Many other opportunities around. - 5% of people are born assholes – or intensely dislike being photographed for their own private reasons. When you encounter this, just call out that you are deleting the image, and walk away. A few days ago, I was shooting a laughing session out in a city square. I laughed along with them. Someone asked me to join in, and I said that I was laughing on the inside ;) Then this guy rode up, and walked up to me. He asked me why I was shooting and I told him because it was a nice, fun thing to shoot. I asked him if he were going to join in and he said “no, not with a photographer around”. He said this as if I were a murderer. I said “easy fixed, mate. I promise not to take a photo of you”. And he walked off. Some people are just surly. NEVER hand your camera over to anyone. Even in the US, it is your right to take photos of anyone providing you are in a publicly owned area. This includes law-enforcement officers. Of course if they demand it, you must hand over your gear. But they are in the wrong, and it can usually be contested successfully. - A good way to take candids, is to visit fairs, fetes, etc – and face the crowd. Go to the side of the stage area and walk around, getting people used to you. Then start scanning the crowd through your lens. Make some jokes, take interest in the proceedings, become one with the crowd. Eventually people ignore you and you become a hunter/predator hahaha!!! / Look for emotions – listen to what is happening around you and time your shots to get the best emotive reactions. Position yourself so that light is to the left or right behind you, so that you can get reflections (catch lights) in the eyes. Always consider your backgrounds while shooting. Nothing worse then spending hours cloning out a light pole from behind someone’s head ;) / And frame your shots to allow for movement, as well as giving space to the direction someone is looking. - Wider street shots live and die by the ‘story’. This takes a little bit of keen observation and patience. A good system, is to position yourself in a people-traffic’ed (yes, I made that one up) location where you have visually composed an interesting scene. It may be a poignant billboard, or a large puddle in the street – maybe a pool of soft light spilling from an overhead lamp. And then wait like a spider :) A car will rush by as someone is walking, splashing them with muddy water – you time your shot to capture their indignation and water spray like an upturned umbrella. A mother and child walk through the lamplight, and as the mother moves back into darkness, the child, holding her hand, is illuminated. Your billboard espousing ‘have a happy day’ becomes a backdrop to a crying girl – or an arguing couple. Observe/setup/plan/wait/timing….a tripod is useful… Learn your camera so that settings are intrinsic. The less you need to think about technicalities, the more you can free your mind to focus on art. Hope that helps a little. Above all – try and relax and enjoy yourself. If you are uptight, it is contagious. If you smile, and interact with people, you will be automatically accepted.
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Wall in Manhattan Copyright
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This picture was taken in Copacabana, Bolivia, just minutes after I took several shots of two old men sitting on the same step while I was resting a bit. Sometime interesting things comes around… /
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Another street shot of a little dog’s love for her mistress.
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Riding on a Float, Gay Pride Parade, Summer 2006, New York. Copyright
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Collaborations with Malia Collaborations with Seana Gig Photos
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Candid portrait captured in Washington Square Park, NYC. Copyright
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There’s no jobs , nothing to do, so why not enjoy some of the simple pleasures in life. The govenment say they will shorten the dole queues….. I can only imagine they are going to get people to stand closer together.
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Spry, grizzled tap dancer in Washington Square Park, New York, May 2007. Copyright
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A young woman waits for a bus in Hollywood,CA next to a James Dean wall art.
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Directions / What diverse paths our lives lead. / This scene of two women – one with a mental ailment, speaking to the passing vehicles, directing them – the other, oblivious, reading a text message, captured my attention and left me meditating on paths we choose, and the ones that are beyond our choice. / / Unfortunately, much detail is lost at this size of image / / My rules for photography and art are very simple – I like it, or I don’t… / / Thanks for visiting my folio :) / I certainly appreciate your taking time to view what I’ve been up to, and enjoy reading your comments. / / You may find it easier to use the links below to take you to a specific genre, or see my personal favourite selection. My Own, Personal Favourites / Abstracts & Other Weird Stuff / Architecture, Buildings & Cityscapes / Candids & Street / Weird Compilations, Collaborations, & Constructions / Emotive & Inspirational / Industrial & Other Dirty Things / Landscapes & Other Vistas / Portraits & People / Urban, Suburban & Sub-suburban / Trees & Florals / Animals & Wildlife / / Calendar / (contact me to purchase) / / Writings (or ramblings) / Come, Dark / Chandelier Brain / Eat Me / The 10th / You’re Strange, Rick / Ever-Queen / Sleeping / Beauty / The Black, White & Grey / / / / Hope / / / One / / / Hope / / / One / / / Reap what you Sow / / / Trust / / / Directions / / / Unconditional Love / / / The Long Road / / / Silence Lane
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I spotted this couple having their photoshoot when I was about at least a clear 70m away. Snapped it and converted it with some blur to the background while keeping the couple sharp. Love how their height is set against the relatively gigantic pillars
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To be honest I was slightly concerned whether this chap was just drunk, stoned… or whether he’d shuffled off his mortal coil. Passers-by didn’t seem too worried though. I guess that’s life in the big city for you.
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Riding on Float, Gay Pride Parade, Summer 2006, New York City Copyright
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On again On again I love a good bum on a woman, it makes my day. / To me it is palpable proof of God’s existence, a posteriori. / Also I love breasts and arms and ankles, elbows, knees; / It’s the tongue, the tongue, the tongue on a woman that spoils the job for me. / Please understand I respect and admire the frailer sex / And I honour them every bit as much as the next misogynist. / But give some women the ghost of a chance to talk and thereupon / They go on again, on again, on again, on again, on again, on again, on. I fell in love with a woman with wonderful thighs and hips / And a sensational belly. I just never noticed her lips were always moving. / Only when we got to the altar and she had to say “I do” / And she folded her arms and gathered herself and took in a breath and I knew / She could have gone on again, on again, on again till the entire / Congregation passed out and the vicar passed on and the choirboys passed through puberty. / At the reception I gloomily noted her family’s jubilant mood, / Their maniacal laughter and their ghastly gratitude. She talks to me when I go for a shave or a sleep or a swim. / She talks to me on a Sunday when I go singing hymns and drinking heavily. / When I go mending my chimney pot she’s down there in the street, / And at ninety-five on my motorbike she’s on the pillion seat / Wittering on again, on again, on and again and again. / When I’m eating or drinking or reading or thinking or when I’m saying my rosary. / She will never stop talking to me; she is one of those women who / Will never use three or four words when a couple of thousand will easily do! She also talks without stopping to me in our bed of a night; / Throughout the sweetest of our intimate delights she never gives over. / Not even stopping while we go hammer and tongs towards the peak - / Except maybe for a sigh and a groan and one perfunctory shriek. / Then she goes on again, on again, on again on and I must / Assume that she has never noticed that she’s just been interrupted. / Totally unruffled she is, and as far as I can see / I might just as well have been posting a letter or stirring up the tea! She will not take a hint, not once she’s made a start. / I can yawn or belch or bleed or faint or fart – she’ll not drop a syllable. / I could stand in front of her grimly sharpening up an axe, / I could sprinkle her with paraffin, and ask her for a match - / She’d just go on again, on again, on again even more. / The hind leg of a donkey is peanuts for her, she can bore the balls off a buffalo. / “Mother of God,” I cried one day, “Oh, let your kingdom come / “And in the meantime, Mother, could you strike this bugger dumb?” Well, believe it or not, she appeared to me then and there: / The Blessed Virgin herself, in answer to my prayer, despite the vulgarity, / Shimmering softly, dressed in blue and holding up a hand. / I cocked a pious ear as the Mother of God began. / Well she went on again, on again, on again, on, and I / Will have to state how very much I sympathise with the rest of the family. / Give some women the ghost of a chance to talk and thereupon / They go on again, on again, on again, on again, / And again, and again, and again, and again / They will go on again, on again, on again, on again, on again, on again, on. Jake Thackeray /
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Animae / This candid portrait was taken a few weeks ago at the Brunswick St festival, here in Melbourne. I was immediately struck by the hair and especially by the way it shone in the light. My two sons were heavily into Dragonball Z growing up (and I admit – I loved it also hehe). This character looked like he came straight out of one of the scenes. Candid portraiture is one of my deepest passion when it comes to photography. I love capturing the amazing expression on faces and freezing them in time. / / / My rules for photography and art are very simple – I like it, or I don’t… / / Thanks for visiting my folio :) / I appreciate your taking time to view what I’ve been up to, and enjoy reading your comments. / / You may find it easier to use the links below to take you to a specific genre, or see my personal favourite selection. / / My Own, Personal Favourites / Abstracts & Other Weird Stuff / Architecture, Buildings & Cityscapes / Candids & Street / Compilations, Collaborations, & Constructions / Emotive & Inspirational / Industrial & Other Dirty Things / Landscapes & Other Vistas / Portraits & People / Urban, Suburban & Sub-suburban / Trees & Florals / Animals & Wildlife / / Calendar / (contact me to purchase, or customise) / / / Writings (or ramblings) / Weaver / High-Flyer / The 10th / The In-Between Place / The Haggard Crone / Come, Dark / Chandelier Brain / Eat Me / You’re Strange, Rick / Ever-Queen / Sleeping / Beauty / The Black, White & Grey / / /
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Santa’s Workshop relegated to the street … shot from a cab on Houston Street, NYC. Copyright
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