runawaygeek

Brief: To shoot a range of images good enough to be printed in a 30cm square book. 4-5 chapters with text. The book will be based around London UK, Working ideas for chapters are currently "Portrait People, Buildings, Street, Sport, Wealth and/or History. Working Title options: "City Exposed" or "Taking the Light" Predicted issues: Digital cameras are native 7x5, not 1x1, I will need to consider framing. Prints are reasonably large so need to consider format and quality. Cost of printing, may need to put in some overtime! Tools: Canon 50D, Canon 70-200mm L Series, Sigma 30mm, Canon 60mm macro, Canon 17-85mm IS.Photoshop Blurb Books - http:/

So my last entry (a long time ago) was about shooting from the hip, errmm so this was just an awful idea.. turns out you end up with a lot of crap in fact it took about 1000 shots before i got even close to lucky, everything was blurred, out of focus, bland and boring. The only shot out of the lot i even hinted at liking was the one below. its not great but its raw, no photoshop, no settings, shot on Program (Canon 50D with a 70-200mm F4 L series Lens) so i think we can safely say that you need to compose pretty much 99% of your photography and only sometimes through extreme perseverance do we get lucky.  END

I was reading the Sta.sh from DA about Steet togging, it posed a very good question about posing and snapping people who are not aware of the camera, Personally i prefer to snap them before they see me, capture the "real them" as they are perceived on the street. but i can also see the beauty in posed art and the message that can convey. Article link:https://techgnotic.deviantart.com/journal/Street-Photography-The-Capture-vs-The-Pose-281535763 Here is a shot that i took in Guildford, its a reaction shot, i was walking Camera in hand and on seeing this couple looking "oh so glam" i took the shot, BUT i still took the time to shoot at eye lev