ian_warren

<p>I work for an agency in London and can categorically say any model or photographer who turned up to a casting or client meeting without a physical book to show the client wouldn't be looked upon favourably put it that way.<br>

In terms of physical book dimensions people here aren't too fussed, but the general rule is the bigger the better!<br>

Don't forget as well if you have landscape images don't put them in rotated at 90 degrees, print them off on a portrait sheet with large borders at the top and bottom... it's much better if clients don't have to be turning your hefty book as they browse through the images.</p>

<p>1) I pretty much take photos subtly with a compact meaning I rarely get busted... that said I find if someone spots me I just act as if I've done nothing wrong whatsoever and either walk off or pretend to fiddle with my camera setting and nobody ever confronts me about it.<br>

2) Personally I see those part colour photoshops as more the realm of wedding photographers... that said it was good enough for Steven Speilberg!!! Just do what you feel brings the best out in your images.</p>

<p>Personally for me street photography is all about witnessing real life in places I may never get to go to in my lifetime.  There's plenty of oil paintings hanging up in galleries across the world of street scenes or market scenes from renaissance Venice or North Africa, and street photography is just the modern incarnation of these.  I may never get to go to Inner City Chicago or an Mumbai slum so street photography is probably the purest way I'll get to experience what life is really like in these places.<br>

It's not so important that these images actually have a message; they just need to convey real life happening in real places for me to consider them valuable in their own right. <br>

We rush around the world with blinkers on so wrapped up in our own lives we never think about other peoples'.  To me the street photographer is a person who just celebrates life in all it's forms;  an old man sneaking a peek at a younger woman, a happy couple flirting, a businessman rushing to work... it's a way of stepping into another person's life for just a few moments and realising that all humans on this planet have hopes, dreams, desires and agendas. <br>

So to me treet photography is the purest way of capturing what life is like on our planet, and for that every single street photograph is worthy of being seen.</p>

<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>