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Street Photography
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note the black dog in the corner
note the photographer in the upper right corner
I'm not even sure what to say about this, but I can guarantee you
that the scene (Venice Beach, from my California series) didn't
seem quite this varied in real life.
Garry Winogrand is famous for having exposed three rolls of Tri-X on the streets of New York City
every day for his entire adult life. That's 100 pictures a day, 36,500 a year, a million every 30 years.
Winogrand died in 1984 leaving more than 2500 rolls of film exposed but undeveloped, 6500 rolls
developed but not proofed, and 3000 rolls proofed but not examined (a total of a third of a million
unedited exposures).
This is the kind of dedication that you need to bring to a street photography project if you hope to
achieve greatness.
Technique
The classic technique for street photography consists of fitting a wide (20mm) or moderately wide-angle
(35mm) lens to a camera, loading high-speed film (ISO 400), and pre-focusing the lens. Pre-focusing?
How do you know how far away your subject will be. It turns out that it doesn't really matter. Wide
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