Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Street photography. 4 criteria for me. What I consider the perfect street photograph is the following: It is a photo made 'out there' (indoors or outdoors), in public places where people that don't necesserally know each other meet, pass, interact or don't interact. It is a photo where you feel that the photographer was unnoticed. This doesn't mean that you can't have people looking into the lens, but it should be with an 'empty' and non responsive look. Or that pre- recognition look just before people understand that it's them that are being photographed. It is a photo that captures a moment that the viewer recognizes as being unstaged, pure and genuine. A snap of life. A frozen moment. And finally it is a photo that has a perfect composition. As if it was staged to get all the elements in it at the right place at the right time. Like everything suddenly falls into place. Without being staged. Philippe Op 30-apr-07, om 21:08 heeft Lottermoser George het volgende geschreven: > We have a number of folks doing "street photography." I have a > number of conflicting feelings about this sort of work. I find your > work to be quite interesting. I'd love for this group to discuss > the genre. Just about the time I start feeling, "this stuff is > really boring. Why do people photograph other people standing or > walking on the street?" I open your images and feel, "oh these are > some interesting images of people standing or walking on the > street." Can one articulate what makes a powerful "street photograph?" > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george@imagist.com > > > > On Apr 26, 2007, at 9:04 AM, H. Ball Arche wrote: > >> http://tinyurl.com/2m8kyn > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >