Street Photography Techniques

[jgredline]

<p>Looking at a fire from the freeway overpass.<br>

<img src="http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/pp128/jgredline/Strangers/4093.jpg" alt="" /></p>

[Brad_]

<p>I've got you beat, JY. People + street + stealthy!!!</p>

<p><img src="http://pages.sbcglobal.net/b-evans/Images38/Stealhty.jpg" alt="" /></p>

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[ian_warren]

<p>Hi... first time poster!!<br />I love reading these advice threads, but one thing that I would just throw out there is that for some of us (myself included), I'm just not confident enough to blatantly take photos of people, no matter how hard I try. <br />Since I shoot with a digital SLR I found it really hard to get into street photography, but once I 'devolved' back to a compact digital I found that could get the shots really easily... to the point that I can be sat opposite someone at a table or on the tube and take there photo without them noticing!<br />A lot of people might think that this is stupid but like other posters said it's all about misdirection. Do something completely obvious with one hand (play with your keys or your phone, drum on the wall etc) while you subtly take the photo with the other...<br />now here's a trick that people might think is obsessive, but I'm toying with the idea. Basically I've rigged a small compact mirror at a 45 degree angle to my camera's LCD screen. What this means is that I can shoot from the hip but before I do I can take a peek from above and check that everything's framed properly. Basically it's a ghetto right angle viewfinder :)<br />I'm only toying around with street photography at the moment but it seems to be working!<br /><img src="http://iantendo.tumblr.com/photo/1280/96561519/1/SyNgDDvIImbzkpvgQgk2N3Pz" alt="" /></p>

[backswamp]

<p>>>>Basically it's a ghetto right angle viewfinder :)<<<</p>

<p>We used to call them waist level finders. Been around about a hundred years so far. ;)</p>

<p>Michael</p>