hi liter posted:

Market St. by David Shen, on Flickr

Xabi posted:

its no big deal posted:

This is cool and good, but my brain wants that line on the left side to be vertical.

Putrid Grin posted:

Your brain is clearly defective.

DSC_4320 by Maciej, on Flickr

Mrenda posted:

Direction by Niamh O'Donovan, on Flickr

Mrenda posted:

Direction by Niamh O'Donovan, on Flickr

Pukestain Pal posted:

street thread takes an unusual turn for the better.

windex posted:

The view from my apartment is pretty epic around lunch.



A park around Nishi-Shinjuku:

windex posted:

edit: vvv oh no, photos of and taken from the street are not street photography.

elgarbo posted:

I'd describe these as urban landscapes personally.

windex posted:

The distinction between 'urban' and 'street' is mostly bullshit. It hinges on the definition of life (e.g. what is and is not alive in a city, which is stupid, as the whole thing is a constantly changing organism of its own right) and most people who insist on a semantics debate define that as people as subjects.

When you live in a sea of 35 million people and you decide to go out and randomly photograph things, people aren't even close to being at the top of the list of interesting subjects.

I just had a couple of photos I thought turned out neat. I'll forget this thread exists next time I think that?

windex posted:

The distinction between 'urban' and 'street' is mostly bullshit. It hinges on the definition of life (e.g. what is and is not alive in a city, which is stupid, as the whole thing is a constantly changing organism of its own right) and most people who insist on a semantics debate define that as people as subjects.

When you live in a sea of 35 million people and you decide to go out and randomly photograph things, people aren't even close to being at the top of the list of interesting subjects.

I just had a couple of photos I thought turned out neat. I'll forget this thread exists next time I think that?

Mr. Despair posted:

man, nothing in japan is straight up and down, is it

VomitOnLino posted:

No it's not mostly bullshit, street is called street different mostly from the approach of things. Not the result. It doesn't even require you to be in a urban environment. Just because you were afraid to "go close" and desaturated your pictures doesn't make them "street photography".
Also your tones look hosed up to me, the mid-tones look pretty flat and solarized.

And it doesn't matter where you live, that doesn't play any role at all. Why should it? That said -- if you do in fact live here then there's plenty of street-galleries and exhibitions here, changing every other week, so why don't you go to those galleries and educate yourself? Daido has a nice color show up at AM Gallery. It would be one way to educate yourself instead of having armchair discussions here ... but, I digress.

windex posted:

Nothing in this post has value, even as critique. It's a wall of assumptions about skill level, process, and confidence.

Neither of those photos have any post-process work done to them, except checking the black and white box in lightroom.

Hell, the photos in your post are likely worthless because you probably don't have a signed release.

Which is why location matters, and why I don't shoot people in Japan, except for the tens of thousands of shots of people at events I have where the venue has a de-facto release through ticket sales and I am working for them or the production company leasing the space.

But those are not street photography. Street photography is about the approach, and you're right - it's leaving the huge gear bag at home, grabbing your loving camera, and wasting a day taking photos of anything that seems interesting.

But hey you know, what do I know.

Dren posted:

These posts are overly aggressive responses to being told one's photo doesn't fit the aesthetic of the thread. Surely, windex, you realize that indignant walls of text, hyperbole, and a disregard for the opinions of others are not good ways to make a well received point?

windex posted:

So, I'll be posting in this thread pretty much every time I go out to shoot, now.

8th-snype posted:

I'm so fuckin street son.

windex posted:

I do enjoy writing them. Also, a quick look of the photography of literally every artist mentioned in the OP reveals a detailed history of "urban landscape" photography.

But, no, one thing living in Japan does is cement the fact that ignoring the opinions of others is a perfectly valid life strategy.

So, I'll be posting in this thread pretty much every time I go out to shoot, now.

edit: Finally.

windex posted:

I do enjoy writing them. Also, a quick look of the photography of literally every artist mentioned in the OP reveals a detailed history of "urban landscape" photography.

But, no, one thing living in Japan does is cement the fact that ignoring the opinions of others is a perfectly valid life strategy.

So, I'll be posting in this thread pretty much every time I go out to shoot, now.

edit: Finally.

Geektox posted:

Also lol at living in a country with 127 million people with a culture of social responsibility and then believing that you are the special snowflake that gets to ~~go your own way~~!

windex posted:

Japan is a country of psychopathic sycophants with no regard for what anyone else thinks.

The peace and harmony poo poo is all bullshit. As long as you say your inane babble at other people wIth the slightest hint of politeness and nobody questions anyone else about intent, everybody is happy.

It has never not been this way. You can go read the tale of genji in that light and have your loving mind blown.

This is why if you show that statement to any common gaijin who has lived here at least a few years, it's loving hilarious.

Sorry to ruin your dreams.

windex posted:

Japan is a country of psychopathic sycophants with no regard for what anyone else thinks.

The peace and harmony poo poo is all bullshit. As long as you say your inane babble at other people wIth the slightest hint of politeness and nobody questions anyone else about intent, everybody is happy.

It has never not been this way. You can go read the tale of genji in that light and have your loving mind blown.

This is why if you show that statement to any common gaijin who has lived here at least a few years, it's loving hilarious.

Sorry to ruin your dreams.

windex posted:

But hey you know, what do I know.

MrBlandAverage posted:

You are a bad poster with bad opinions who takes bad photographs.

windex posted:

Nothing in this post has value, even as critique. It's a wall of assumptions about skill level, process, and confidence.

Neither of those photos have any post-process work done to them, except checking the black and white box in lightroom.

Hell, the photos in your post are likely worthless because you probably don't have a signed release.

Which is why location matters, and why I don't shoot people in Japan, except for the tens of thousands of shots of people at events I have where the venue has a de-facto release through ticket sales and I am working for them or the production company leasing the space.

But those are not street photography. Street photography is about the approach, and you're right - it's leaving the huge gear bag at home, grabbing your loving camera, and wasting a day taking photos of anything that seems interesting.

But hey you know, what do I know.

windex posted:

Hell, the photos in your post are likely worthless because you probably don't have a signed release.

hi liter posted:

Uhhh....I don't think that this is right.

windex posted:

Portrait rights are a thing in Japan, and can be pushed against a local resident selling photos internationally, as was recently discovered. There are no limits on portrait rights for fair use or otherwise in law or court history in regards to any identifiable person who could be deemed the subject of the photo.

One woman shot from behind sued a fashion blog for commenting on her appearance unfavorably on the grounds her clothing style made her identifiable, she won.

Mr. Despair posted:

and if you can't sell something for money it's literally worthless


welp, time to sell all my camera gear so that I can afford an eos-m and a stack of release forms I guess

windex posted:

I once had to delete a few dozen FB photos that had a girl with a jealous boyfriend in them, who one day reported them all as harassment, because he coerced her into dumping all her friends and only spending time as his slave or some poo poo that lasted two months.