Street Photography - Different approaches
- Noemi Filetti
- 16 feb 2018
- Tempo di lettura: 2 min
I did some researches about different approaches than can be used for street photography and I may try in my future projects.
Collaboration
Jamaal Davies - Diary of Disposables
Jamaal Davies started his project in 2015 in Washington DC. He sent disposable cameras to creative individuals around the globe that they get to use for seven days, with the purpose of documenting their lives across the clock.
Apart from exposing personal and previously untold narratives, the aim of the project is to connect selected creatives across the world through a shared digital photo journal that spans countless lifestyles, timezones and aesthetics.
Long exposure
Jon Wilkening - Handheld
In this series, the photographer used a pinhole camera to capture street photos that result in having an impressionist feeling, street photography doesn’t need to be tack sharp and technically perfect.
"I love the chaotic energy found on the streets. You never know what you will discover or experience. I feed off this uncertainty and risk. The streets force you to be in the moment".
He used an f192 aperture and consequently every image is a long exposure. He started using a tripod and a timer but he wasn't happy with the results. In fact, the images felt like the standard boring images of speeding traffic with the pinhole effect slapped on top. He was then introduced to the blurry color work of Ernst Hass and it sparked the idea of embracing rather than fighting the blur. The freedom from the tripod allowed him to capture the energy that you feel on the streets that was missing from the previous images.
He pulls inspiration from the Impressionist painters and their ability to take a familiar scene and transform into the unfamiliar through their expression.
Approaching and asking
Lee Jeffries - Lost Angels
The photographer doesn't define his series as a photojournalism project and neither a portraiture. For him, this is a religious or spiritual iconography.
His images are more like art, he wants to capture an emotional element and supplement that with a metaphysical quality that grabs and holds the attention of the viewer.
"There is enough packed into any one of my images to take the viewer on a journey. They are an exploration of humanity. It’s as much an exercise in self-examination as it is in photography".
He didn't want to exploit these people or steal photographs of them like so many other photographers who had seen the homeless as an easy target. In an effort to make intimate portraits, Jeffries would try to connect with each person on an individual basis first. "I need to see some kind of emotion in my subjects," Jeffries says. "I specifically look at people's eyes—when I see it, I recognize it and feel it—and I repeat the process over and over again." Jeffries tries to keep the contact as informal as possible. He rarely takes notes, feeling it immediately raises suspicion, and prefers to take pictures while he is talking with his subjects to capture the "real emotion" in them.
Under each picture, Jeffries gives the details of the camera's settings. The pictures are generally taken with a very wide aperture (f/2 - f/5) , ISO 100, shutter speed 1/100 to 1/320. He mainly used the 24mm prime lens and sometimes the 85mm.
https://www.thephoblographer.com/2016/07/25/30-inspiring-street-photographers-to-motivate-you-to-shoot-in-2016/
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