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Winter is the right time for Street Photography
With the onset of wet wintry days I have become interested in a genre of photography I haven't really entered into before.
Street.
I have seen many, many examples of cracking street imagery abounding on various social media streams and recently took the decision to "get into it" more seriously.
Inspiration
A lot of photographers will quote Henri Cartier-Bresson as an inspiration when entering into this arena of modern urban photography. I like his imagery, it seems to transcend the "street" label it was produced under and becomes, at a base level, high contrast "shapes" that just work.
To this end, Jill and I took a wander through Newcastle-upon-Tyne to see if we couldn't start to train our eye to look for street situations to photograph.
It was, indeed, raining but we managed to dodge in and out of the weather at various places (thank-you Starbucks, Costa etc). The good side is the weather had produced skies with character and sometimes wet pavements, things that add up to good mono shots.
A good day out was had and, by the end, we both felt we had picked up some sort of "eye" for an urban shot. It;s needs a lot of training and we missed many a shot where we found ourselves standing watching a situation instead of shooting it. For instance, two bar staff trying to fit a huge wicker reindeer into the back of a small van that really just WAS NOT going to fit.
We came back with a couple of hundred shots that we whittled down to 40-ish.
If you would like to browse the results check out our
Flickr Album of Street Photography
The following images were a result...
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| The Prisoner |
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| Cathedral |
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| Ganesha Watches |
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| Hops Religion |
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| Steps |
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| Sweep |
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| Nests and Poo |
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| Millennium Photo |
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| Cheese |
