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on the street - May challenge

The challenge for May - is street photography - with YOU in it. Capture yourself somehow, somewhere on the street. With or without others around or others in the photo frame. You could ask someone else to press the shutter for you or carry around your tripod - whatever you do it has to have a ’street photography’ vibe to it. What is that you ask - well Amy Stein says that good street photography should be voyeuristic, immediate, and uncomfortably intimate. It is also often thought to need to be ironic and distanced from its subject matter, concentrating on a single human moment, caught at a decisive or poignant moment.

Street photography usually utilises landscape format wide angle lense - to allow more action in the picture, to capture more than one main story. It is a type of documentary photography but it is in public places and captures an immediacy and frankness that is thought to be very human.

Read more about street photography - what its all about and how to go about it here and here and here and on wikipedia.

Examples of interesting street photography - here, here, here, here.

More examples: regular people, interesting backdrop, love the sense of place and sense of purpose, just the bottom half - its enough to tell a story, great red and her expression is caught in the moment, love the colours and what is the person behind the pillar doing, oooh fantastic expressions, this is just perfect, and this is just plain fantastic.

cheeky said,

April 23, 2007 @ 12:33 pm

Thanks SPC. I don’t know squat about photography but I’m learning. More importantly, I’m having fun. I’m excited about taking pictures now, I finally get it! It’s addictive and I’m loving it. Thanks for what you do here, especially for the people who want to learn and join the community of photographers, but who are not pros.

intrepidflame said,

April 23, 2007 @ 7:54 pm

Are we doing one more body part on the 29th?

kricketson said,

April 24, 2007 @ 4:58 am

ya ya
finish the month with your body
K

Something To Say said,

April 24, 2007 @ 8:34 pm

I had an idea for a challenge the other day, Portraits in minature.

irene said,

April 28, 2007 @ 10:11 pm

wonderful theme.

NOSUMO»Blog Archive » Self-Portrait Challenge: 5-1-07 said,

April 30, 2007 @ 9:24 pm

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a lunchtime walk « girlfriday talks said,

May 1, 2007 @ 1:36 am

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Cruset of Ideas » Archives » spc: 1984 said,

May 1, 2007 @ 4:44 am

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under floodlights « girlfriday talks said,

May 8, 2007 @ 3:35 am

[...] I am motivated to *do stuff* on Tuesdays … just so I can record *action* for the on-the-street theme for the self-portrait challenge [...]

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May 25, 2007 @ 9:27 am

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