Street shooting
In January 2007 I started a photo project that would bring about an awareness of organ donation. That project came to a grinding halt within a few months of being launched. So for now, it sits idle. Out of that project, comes my enjoyment of street portraits.
Most street shootings (the camera kind) are candid images. The photographer sits back and observes, then takes pictures of interesting things and people. Usually without them knowing about it. The great images are usually private moments in public spaces OR the instant a subject becomes aware of the photographer and the image is taken.
Here are a few of my shots from some street sessions.
This image is actually almost two years old, maybe three. I was waiting for some friends downtown and sat near the steam coming up from a vent in the sidewalk. I knew it would make for some neat pictures as people went in and out of the steam on this COLD January day. Patience paid off for me in this case as this girl poses for her mom. I wonder if I am in their picture as well?
It was unseasonably warm this particular day in Oct. 2007. I stopped to eat at a cafe about a block from the hospital. I noticed this woman having lunch in the cafe at the same time I was. Later, as I stood on a corner across from the cafe she came out. When she was standing on the corner to cross the street she looked across and recognized this man. She treated him to lunch at that same cafe and they talked for well over an hour. This picture was from their greeting.
This woman was waiting for a bus when I started to talk to her. She was a new mother and had quite a colorful history. I would have spent more time with her, but her bus was arriving and I only had time to take a few pictures of her.
She was waiting to cross the street and this was one of those quick-take-the-picture-of-the-beautiful-woman
-on-the-corner-and-hope-I-get-something-shots. It's really not that poignant except the man on the left of the frame. She's looking towards him and he's looking towards me and I am looking towards her. Kind of a triangle thingy.
I don't remember this mans name, but we did talk for several minutes. He is homeless (he even had a fifth of booze in his coat). I asked him if I could take his picture and he asked for $20.00. I offered him $5 and he accepted.
Most street shootings (the camera kind) are candid images. The photographer sits back and observes, then takes pictures of interesting things and people. Usually without them knowing about it. The great images are usually private moments in public spaces OR the instant a subject becomes aware of the photographer and the image is taken.
Here are a few of my shots from some street sessions.
This image is actually almost two years old, maybe three. I was waiting for some friends downtown and sat near the steam coming up from a vent in the sidewalk. I knew it would make for some neat pictures as people went in and out of the steam on this COLD January day. Patience paid off for me in this case as this girl poses for her mom. I wonder if I am in their picture as well?
It was unseasonably warm this particular day in Oct. 2007. I stopped to eat at a cafe about a block from the hospital. I noticed this woman having lunch in the cafe at the same time I was. Later, as I stood on a corner across from the cafe she came out. When she was standing on the corner to cross the street she looked across and recognized this man. She treated him to lunch at that same cafe and they talked for well over an hour. This picture was from their greeting.
This woman was waiting for a bus when I started to talk to her. She was a new mother and had quite a colorful history. I would have spent more time with her, but her bus was arriving and I only had time to take a few pictures of her.
She was waiting to cross the street and this was one of those quick-take-the-picture-of-the-beautiful-woman
-on-the-corner-and-hope-I-get-something-shots. It's really not that poignant except the man on the left of the frame. She's looking towards him and he's looking towards me and I am looking towards her. Kind of a triangle thingy.
I don't remember this mans name, but we did talk for several minutes. He is homeless (he even had a fifth of booze in his coat). I asked him if I could take his picture and he asked for $20.00. I offered him $5 and he accepted.
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