{"id":1434,"date":"2013-07-21T20:49:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T03:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2013-07-21T20:49:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T03:49:47","slug":"street-photography-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/street-photography-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been watching some pretty funny photography videos<\/a>\u00a0 by a company called DigitalRevTV, but mixed in with the humour is some salient photographic advice and inspiration.<\/p>\n

On that note, I have been working on street photography<\/a>. Street photography is hard because you cannot control much of what is happening. There is a lot more reaction than planning{{1}}. “The decisive moment”, “f8 and be there” and many other photographic cliches are relevant for street photography. It is a different way of seeing and even thinking than nature and landscape photography. When I am out in the woods, or on a beach I slow down and become almost zen like. I will contemplate a particular composition, maybe remove an offending stick or blade of grass. In a more urban environment, you have to anticipate what will happen, be ready for (or if) something to transpire.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Landscape photography can largely become a technical exercise. Once you have found a location, much of the work becomes how to get the best image quality possible (using a tripod, perfecting focus and depth of field, choosing an optimal exposure). Street photography is more about capturing a moment. Technical mastery can become secondary. Composition has to be very instinctual and spontaneous.<\/p>\n

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Taking a morning smoke and coffee outside the Salvation Army.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As I was walking up Johnson St. I noticed this gentleman outside the Salvation Army Store. As I came up beside him, I turned and took a photo. I did move so that my reflection was hidden, but overall, I may have taken a second or two to take the shot. I gave it a black and white treatment, partly to emphasize the street photography, and partly to hide some of the technical flaws (I will talk about these in a later post).<\/p>\n

[[1]]Yes there is a lot of planning in street photography, you have to choose your lens, you may scout a location, and even plan for a time of day, etc. but the “action” happening on your planned stage is spontaneous. You have to be ready, but you also have to react when things come together…[[1]]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been watching some pretty funny photography videos\u00a0 by a company called DigitalRevTV, but mixed in with the humour is some salient photographic advice and inspiration. On that note, I have been working on street photography. Street photography is hard because you cannot control much of what is happening. There is a lot more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medium","category-lessons","category-photography","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}