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Snaily posted:While good street photography is very good, there are also a lot of people running around doing street photography because it seems easy, slightly disruptive, lets you flash your expensive camera, and gives artistic credibility. Look at me attempt to call people out  dunno posted:I'm really happy to see this thread. I think these are nice, but with the first two, especially, you are shooting a lot of backs-of-heads. Just doesn't make a strong image like the other way 'round might. Reichstag posted:From yesterday: Obviously I don't know what you were thinking in your head when you shot it, but to me, it just feels somewhat lacking when measured as a traditional street photo. There's nothing about the woman or the scene to really justify it to me as an interesting scene.
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Sometimes color suits an image better than black and white, I find. 
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sandmaniac posted:general question: why do you people shoot street? why do you like it, why do you think it's worth doing, what's special about it? Beyond photography for profit, that has a specified aim and goals that meet a commercial or other need, photography is simply art, largely practiced for the benefit of the person producing it and those who are interested in viewing it. Street photography is no different than landscape photos or portraits or anything, really, with regards to its benefits to the photographer. If you want to know why people do it, I think Twenties Superstar covered that fairly well. It's also just fun.
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The compression in particular is why people talk about telephoto being a bad idea for street/candid. It makes the subject distant and separates them from the viewer, rather than involving the viewer in the image. Much of street photography seeks to replicate a 'normal' view rather than relying on the way that a lens makes a particular scene look and a telephoto keeps you from doing that. Obviously it's not impossible to do interesting street photography with a long lens. But many beginners are going to fall back on telephoto as a crutch and use it just because they don't want to get closer, not because they are seeking particular ways that their gear makes the image look.
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Nigel Tufnel posted:I think Sunday is the day that all the cosplayers go to have their photo taken on that bridge that connects harajuku and yoyogi park. Should be some cool stuff to snap there. The problem is that Sunday is also the most popular day to visit so the whole area is just mobbed with people. I always found Harajuku way too crowded for much photography on weekends. Fortunately you can always go twice...
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squidflakes posted:I'm going to be there for two weeks so I imagine there will be at least a couple of opportunities. Its also going to be Golden Week so I imagine the mob of people is going to be that much more intense. Considering that it’s like New Years, Christmas, Labor Day, and Memorial Day rolled into a single week of wall-to-wall train cars and shoving crowds? Yes, most definitely more intense.
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