Doing A Tim

Having very much admired Tim's Balls Of Steel street photography I found myself at Limoges station waiting for a much delayed train so I thought I'd join the craze. Very difficult indeed. My technique was to hang the camera around the neck in the usual fashion but balancing it on the top of my beer gut, thus angling it upwards, and then just point the camera in peoples' faces and click away on cable release. The compo and focus came out completely randomly with my efforts. The vast majority are in cybertrash but here are some of the less bad ones of my fellow passengers, all sharing the same blank expresssion. Much better than the photos though was the fact that it was such fun and I'll have a bit more fun until someone thumps me:






















and I bumped into Jay-Z:

That really does look like Jay-Z!

I was admiring some of these on Flickr yesterday - I thought you were working on a 'wearing earphones' project

The IQ seems much better on these than most of mine, with the reduced noise/pleasant grain I find it's easy to forget to account for the the degradation in sharpness at the higher ISOs.

I especially like the first one, the way Nic Cage is looking at the guy is great!

Have to say #1 does it for me too. But like the facial expressions on #5 & #6. Well done.

#1 is the clear winner for me. The poster image of Nicholas Cage and the passing youth are both looking in the same direction. Its a great juxtaposition shot.
David

[quote:3496ace15f="DrOrloff"]Having very much admired Tim's Balls Of Steel street photography I found myself at Limoges station waiting for a much delayed train so I thought I'd join the craze. Very difficult indeed. My technique was to hang the camera around the neck in the usual fashion but balancing it on the top of my beer gut, thus angling it upwards, and then just point the camera in peoples' faces and click away on cable release. The compo and focus came out completely randomly with my efforts. The vast majority are in cybertrash but here are some of the less bad ones of my fellow passengers, all sharing the same blank expresssion. Much better than the photos though was the fact that it was such fun and I'll have a bit more fun until someone thumps me:

Great stuff! My kind of photography!!!

And yes with blind shooting, as I do with 'Drive By' or shooting from the hip/gut you get an awful lot of wastage, but the great one's more than make up for it.


Dammit, I wasn't going to go out today, but I need some DIY supplies so I might do some more Drive By Shooting around town




These three are my favs! Especially #1

Yes, I like no. 1 the best too... I think its the juxtaposition. I get the biggest kick out of street photography which has another element to it, that takes it beyond candid portraiture.

Although I quite like the girl with the ipod and the very dejected expression of the guy in shot 4.... don't jump, monsieur!

I agree, nice set, especially the first one.

That sums up what street phtography is all about for me. Just snapping candids of people in the street isn't quite what it's all about. There should be a narrative to the image, telling a story, pin pointing some odd situation, absurdity, humour or poignancy.
David

Indeed. I wish I could have snapped the guy trying to get an 8x4 sheet of plywood into the back of a Peugeot 207 in Wivkes car park odaytoday.

Nice one, dr. I hope the train wasn't delayed too long, but it seems you made the most of it. You should have included the old fella in the market!