Free Street Photography Guide from LensCulture

I guess you're expecting comments, so here are mine...

First, the bouquets: the layout and typography are good and the overall presentation is professional.

Then the brickbats: while the first three images are arresting, the remainder are, in my opinion, lazy and largely boring, showing little or nothing that connects the viewer to what is happening.

My advice would be to put more images of the same standard as the first three in place of the "lazy" stuff.
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
I guess you're expecting comments, so here are mine...

First, the bouquets: the layout and typography are good and the overall presentation is professional.

Then the brickbats: while the first three images are arresting, the remainder are, in my opinion, lazy and largely boring, showing little or nothing that connects the viewer to what is happening.

My advice would be to put more images of the same standard as the first three in place of the "lazy" stuff.
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My advice would be to check the thread you are responding to :LOL: :LOL: ;)
 
moggi1964 said:
My advice would be to check the thread you are responding to :LOL: :LOL: ;)
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Oh dear! "Talk Photography" means "Don't Talk Photography"? What a silly little poster I am... :ROFLMAO:
 
Street photography is 99.9 percent about failure. So often I feel defeated by the street. I sometimes find, however, that if I keep walking, keep looking, and keep pushing myself, eventually something interesting will happen.
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I like that thought, it makes the toll on my shoes seem more acceptable.
It's an interesting Guide but leaves me with the same views about what is considered 'Street' that I have always had ... the majority of the photos shown in the guide I would have binned as having pressed the shutter in error. I know this will sound like sacrilege to many but it's just how I see it. :(
 
gramps said:
the majority of the photos shown in the guide I would have binned as having pressed the shutter in error.
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...and there was I carefully refraining from saying that! ;)
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
I guess you're expecting comments, so here are mine...
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Not necessarily expected, but welcome nonetheless.

I haven't had time to dig into it myself, but thought that if it comes from LensCulture, it probably won't be that off. ;)
 
I'll really struggle with reading so much on a computer screen so mostly flicked through.

It feels a bit intense / inaccessible for a 'guide' to street photography to be honest.. If I was trying to get into the genre, I'd probably be a bit confused after reading it.

gramps said:
I like that thought, it makes the toll on my shoes seem more acceptable.
It's an interesting Guide but leaves me with the same views about what is considered 'Street' that I have always had ... the majority of the photos shown in the guide I would have binned as having pressed the shutter in error. I know this will sound like sacrilege to many but it's just how I see it. :(
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It's OK not to like all/some/majority, etc.. of the images - Street Photography can take on many different interpretations / styles and not all will resonate
 
benc98 said:
It's OK not to like all/some/majority, etc.. of the images - Street Photography can take on many different interpretations / styles and not all will resonate
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Yeah I sort of get that, it's just that the main 'representation' of what street photography is seems to be the same type of thing, with random parts of people and other objects scattered through the frame. There seems to be no point other than to press the shutter. Not all of course, just in the main.
 
gramps said:
with random parts of people and other objects scattered through the frame.
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Somebody does it cleverly, others copy it, yet others turn it into a bandwagon and off it rolls through the town, blaring out how wonderful this is.

Anybody daring to mention the emperor's nakedness, is immediately dismissed as a reactionary fool.
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
Anybody daring to mention the emperor's nakedness, is immediately dismissed as a reactionary fool.
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But it is said that children and fools tell the truth. :D

I flicked through it briefly and there are certainly better examples from the photographers there, at least the ones I know. Maybe the treasure is hidden in the text sections.

On page 19, a photo maybe not exactly typical of Martin Parr, but perhaps this one was considerably cheaper, there is also his insight:

“Most of the pictures you see, you actually miss. So inevitably, what you end up doing is taking a lot of rubbish. In fact, the basic theory is, the more rubbish you take the better the chances of a good photo emerging as well. So, keep on taking the rubbish.”

So perhaps it is more the challenge of selection. :D
 
lemo said:
So perhaps it is more the challenge of selection. :D
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It always has been.

When I did press pictures, some of the best sellers were the ones I expected not to sell. With commercial stuff, the clients' choices were seldom mine. At the end of the day, the photographer proposes but the viewer always disposes.
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
Oh dear! "Talk Photography" means "Don't Talk Photography"? What a silly little poster I am... :ROFLMAO:
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Ahh, now i Understand.

When you said bouquets I actually thought you were responding to images of bouquets :D You were awarding them, now I get it!

I retract my earlier post and you can feel free to continue to Talk Photography to your hearts desire ;):cool:
 
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