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I've been trying to get back into photography. I also live in NYC so I've been spending some weekends roaming around looking for people. Definitely handicapped by my technical skills at the moment though, as the two photos below will attest to. The thing that always gets me is that I feel a little shy about invading people's privacy. If its an event I feel much more comfortable about it. Does anyone else feel that embarrassment with shooting random people? Has anyone been accosted by someone who was pissed you were taking their picture? Two humble offerings, suggestions more than welcome.  
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I just saw "Hipsters, Hustlers and Handball Players" a Leon Levinstein exhibition at the Met in NYC. He was about as "street photography" as you can get. According to the blurb in the New Yorker I read before I went, he almost never interacted with his subjects, and just roamed the city taking pictures of people for years and years (the photos in the exhibit are from the 50s, 60s and 70s). Dude doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. He also really seemed to like pictures of fat older women. Anyway, I found the whole thing really interesting and if you're in NYC you should stop by the Met and see the exhibition.  Older fat woman as promised:   
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scotty posted:Had some fun around Brooklyn today, first time really bothering people with a camera: I can't believe the people you chose to bother, of all the people in New York, were the most insular and unwelcoming of outsiders. Takes serious balls to go traipsing around South Williamsburg photographing Hasidim, IMO.
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 35970021.jpg by spikespikespike, on Flickr
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tween_spirit posted:Some recent color ones, any input appreciated since there seems to be a bit of that lately. This is great. It does seem a tad underexposed. I'd play with it a bit to see if you can get her to stand out more.
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fartmanteau posted:
I like this, but the color is screwed up. His face looks like a zombie's. Edit: looking at it further it seems like everyone's face is like that, and that the image is a little too blue. If you can get that out while maintaining the desaturated look your film has going it'll be great (I just assumed this is film, if it's not that's great it'll be even easier to manipulate).
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Street Photography: Musket Doesn't Like It So Don't Do It
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Street Photography: For People Who Like To Be Condescended To By Musket
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Jun 20, 2014 14:32
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The people who told you to get rid of the kid and the bird were wrong. Seriously, it's better with the kid (and the bird).
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Jun 21, 2014 15:11
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Where's that portrait goon who's really good at photoshop and DMCA take down notices. He needs to be in on this.
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Rotten Cookies posted:Yeah, I just don't think he stands out enough. But I literally think a better photo of this man is not possible. Eh, better separation, and if he had taken two steps to his right and framed the man in the natural frame of the doorway to the tracks.
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8th-snype posted:Not the cops, clouds are white. Best post ITT
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I want to share some non-terrible street photography: http://whentosaynothing.com/ (Just to prove that it does exist, and contemporary photographers are still doing it well)
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LargeHadron posted:Just curious, do you know if that's a mixture of new and old photos? Some of them look like they were taken in the early '90s. Anyway, I love the ones of people pointing defiantly at the photographer from inside a car/restaurant. I bet they feel like they won the encounter. I don't know 100%, but I live in NYC and those all look present day to me.
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Subyng posted:person casting a long shadow Not just a person, multiple people, AND A SKATEBOARDER. Boom.  DSC_0047 Awkward Davies fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Jan 20, 2018 |
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SoundMonkey posted:"Street"? That's quite clearly a boardwalk. Wait, aren't you the mod
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VomitOnLino posted:I got nothing.. Yeah this is beautiful
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This is me catching up on this thread:  img555
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That sign is awesome. I'd like to see that reshot with no cars or people.
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VendaGoat posted:99 times out of 100 i'm "in the moment". So you don't use your eyesight?
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People protest to attract attention to a cause. They WANT you to take pictures of them. They are loudly drawing attention to themselves. Don't feel weird, get into the middle of them and start shooting. Though, by middle, I mean among the front part of the protest. I usually find that the middle of protests are pretty boring places though, the front is where the conflict happens (in my experience).
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deaders posted:do you think taste in photography is purely subjective? Do you mean taste or quality? Of course taste is subjective, it's one person's viewpoint.
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New best post ITT
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RangerScum posted:
In someones living room. Not street. 
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Subyng posted:The room is in a house on a street. Do we know that though? It could be in a field. Fields are not streets.
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deaders posted:Yep, a person sitting inside a shop window (fish in a barrel), not doing anything interesting, with a sign indicating that she actually wants attention. Great capture. Oh yeah, also lots of dead space on the right with nothing at all happening. Thanks dude 
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These are all true things. It was from a protest in New York during the summer and I just developed the roll. It was a few blocks away from the protest. I liked the idea of a protestor sitting down for a cup of tea with such an angry sign. I liked the sign. I probably should have gotten closer, that dead space is lovely, the color is lovely. All good and true critiques.
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I still think deaders is kind of an rear end in a top hat, but that's ok.
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deaders posted:Nah not really it is just every time you look at this thread it is people making the same basic mistakes, not sure why I click on it tbh. Yet you haven't posted a photo here in six months. The thread is blessed by your presence. Awkward Davies fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Jan 14, 2015 |
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deaders posted:Do you need to regularly post photos to a thread to be able to contribute meaningfully? No, you don't. But when you're a dick about critiquing someone's photos without posting any of your own, it makes that critique harder to take. I don't need to be told I'm a special snowflake, I'd just rather not be condescended to by someone who isn't willing to put himself out there and post photos. poo poo, even Musket posts photos.
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8th-snype posted:Because this thread is bad and you should feel bad for liking it. Also awkward davies' photo owns but deaders' crit is perfectly valid (even though he doesn't like it for the exact reasons I do like it). Like I said, his crit was totally valid and he's right. He was just a dick about it, and he hasn't posted photos in this thread for six months.
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Ok I'm shutting up about it now. Deaders gave crit and the way in which he did it annoyed me but it's an internet forum and I should be less of a babby. Moving on. Here's a picture of some trash for this thread of garbage.  Greenpoint, Brooklyn Awkward Davies fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Jan 20, 2018 |
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deaders posted:My tone was pretty dickish but it was a fair critique. I post photos in this forum regularly, click the "?" under my name to see them. I think critiques add value. Like I keep saying, the essence of your critique was valid. The way you delivered it made accepting it difficult. deaders posted:That's just to weed out the babies who don't actually want a critique "I'm a dick to make sure that people listen to me". How does that make sense?
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Good garbage posting
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I like this
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deaders posted:Look at the photos by the people making sarcastic comments about art. Then look at the photos by the other people. Make your own judgement. I'd look at your photos if you ever posted them in this thread :/
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Pukestain Pal posted:Can we insert ourselves into the scene until the Landscape thread? Sorry it's not a street photo if you're in it.
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Musket posted:Backs of heads or something. Sup musket
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Is street, no? Herald Square Awkward Davies fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Jan 20, 2018 |
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