'Typing in the Street' / West End, London

This picture was shot with a non SLR Sony Cyber-shot pocket camera.

Thank you for taking the time to watch and perhaps post some comments

Nice B&W photoshop work, I have taken a ton of images with compact point-and-shoot cameras and actually some of my best works... It's the eye more than the camera...! Good work.

Excellent timing.Nice work.Congrats

Thank you very much for the comment. That day was very cold, cafes and bars were all crowded : I imagine he had to get a WIFI connection and this was the most strategical place.

i was looking at your portfolio, and in all your pic, and also of course in this one, i see that you are able to insert many elements, and make all this elements work for giving somenthing more. When i do something like this, all i have is a lot of disturbing elements.... but, to tell about life in the streets, is necessary to have many elements, becouse they exist.... so your pics are as a book, tell alot. and you do excellent bw, too.compl.

Thank you very much for your feedback.

 

Yes, a busy city is alive and this life is everywhere. Constantly. The trick for me is to know and love this city, and beeing aware of it in its whole. I don't see any of the elements creating this life as disturbing, but I try to think this way : "What is the main subject and how is this subject lit the better ? "

 

Then I start to visualise the composition of this particular subjectas the center of interest, not by letting him and the various elements move, but by moving myself around to get the right position in order to have the story told in the most effective way.

 

Then, trying to be aware about the whole surroundings, which is easier with the compact camera I use, because having to look at a small screen instead of having my eye glued to the camera, I can see who or what will come in or out of frame, and roughly when.

 

Seeing these various elements, I can still move again to re-arrange the composition if some people who will come in frame for example will destroy the first idea of composition. And I will always try to get a bit wider than I need to get some safty.

 

All this is requires a very quick reaction, but for that, I think knowing the streets where you shoot, and most important, a constant practice will help to get all this shooting process better and quicker.