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 02/13/2007 01:16:21 AM · #76
Originally posted by PaulE:
Dumb question time.

All the discusion here is about taking candid photographs of strangers - that seems to be the point of the challenge, and that seems to be how most of you understand it. Is it DNMC if it doesn't contain an actual street in it? What if the scene is a back alley, or cropped to exclude the tarmac, or of a covered walkway?

I've just got back from spending my lunch break shooting and am worried that I will be bopped on the head by the DNMC brigade because my (hypothetically) my shot is of a covered walkway.


You should not have a problem at all. If I understand what you are saying correctly, for example this image I would clasify as street photography but no tarmac to be seen, I believe it can be on trains in parks etc.. not just city streets. But voters are wierd ;)

edit : can't spell

Message edited by author 2007-02-13 01:17:38.
 02/13/2007 01:23:27 AM · #77
perfect timing, there is a big two day street fest going on this week here in daytona.
 02/13/2007 01:59:18 AM · #78
Originally posted by mobster:
perfect timing, there is a big two day street fest going on this week here in daytona.


this friday is the start of a 5 day fest here in the south of holland. it's called carnaval. people dress up really really weird and crazy, there will be a parade in a different town every day. lots of loud music, huge parade wagons and drunken people. and in the daytime there are also the special childrens parades where the cuteness levels go through the roof :-D

so I think i'm gonna have a go at it next saturday at the kiddies parade and otherwise next sunday, but i have to promise myself to stay sober whilst photographing and take the camera home before joining the party :-P
 02/13/2007 02:22:57 AM · #79
Originally posted by jan_vdw:
Paul, I don't think that there absolutely MUST be a street of some kind in the picture. This will be one of those interpretation issues again, but my understanding of street photography is going out in the streets and getting shots of whatever subject you fancy.
There is always the chance that if you have no tarmac or any kind of street/walkway/whatever in the shot that someone will give you a DNMC, but that would be taking the title of the challenge too literally, my opinion.

Jan.
Baie dankie Jan. I know this. You know this. But drat it; do the voters know it?

Originally posted by option:
Humans in an urban environment, up close and personal. Thats my understanding of it, anyway. If your hypothetical scene doesn't have a person as the subject, it probably wont do well.
Hypothetical scene does have people in it.

Thanks guys for your input.
 02/13/2007 02:24:47 AM · #80
could you please tell me if these images are street enough:) :

thank you!
 02/13/2007 02:40:37 AM · #81
Originally posted by silverfoxx:
could you please tell me if these images are street enough:) :

thank you!


I think the technique of street photography is about capturing people. I guess your second photo would fit the challenge, but I'm not sure how well it would fare in this challenge. Hard to say, it's up to the voters to interpret.
 02/13/2007 02:43:36 AM · #82
hi Leah!
nice to see you:)
well, that's too bad, I thought street is about that special street spirit. there don't have to be people there, but everything about streets is also about people, right? every single thing.
 02/13/2007 02:56:26 AM · #83
I was living in Europe, traversing the streets of Rome, London, Paris, you get the picture. Then I move to Washington. To a very boring town. And then the challenge comes. *Sigh*
 02/13/2007 04:30:36 AM · #84
damn you rain!!!!
 02/13/2007 05:00:22 AM · #85
Originally posted by silverfoxx:
could you please tell me if these images are street enough:) :

thank you!


I love that first image. If I saw that in a Street Challenge it would certainly score high from me. I personally don't feel it HAS to include people. I think the voters will generally lean towards people involvement but if I saw am image of that calibre then I would certainly override that stigma and vote it high.
 02/13/2007 05:05:46 AM · #86
Originally posted by Blue Moon:
Originally posted by silverfoxx:
could you please tell me if these images are street enough:) :

thank you!


I think the technique of street photography is about capturing people. I guess your second photo would fit the challenge, but I'm not sure how well it would fare in this challenge. Hard to say, it's up to the voters to interpret.


But there are people in the photo....a bit washed out by the long exposure...but they are there....and the picture is great..I think it really represents "street photography"
 02/13/2007 06:31:31 AM · #87
Originally posted by CaliKat07:
I was living in Europe, traversing the streets of Rome, London, Paris, you get the picture. Then I move to Washington. To a very boring town. And then the challenge comes. *Sigh*


perhaps for you is boring only because you live in washington. I live near naples, rome is only far 2 hours with the car from my home and paris is my favorite city (every year I go in Paris). I am sure that there are many interesting situations even in washington, perhaps aren't very exotic for you but if you search perhaps you find :)
 02/13/2007 06:35:20 AM · #88
Originally posted by Judi:
Originally posted by silverfoxx:
could you please tell me if these images are street enough:) :

thank you!


I love that first image. If I saw that in a Street Challenge it would certainly score high from me. I personally don't feel it HAS to include people. I think the voters will generally lean towards people involvement but if I saw am image of that calibre then I would certainly override that stigma and vote it high.


I amn't sure of this. for me is a street and is a great street but I am sure that if there aren't peoples in the image will be difficult obtain an high rate.
 02/13/2007 06:39:55 AM · #89
ok, thank you so much for your answers!
now I know:)
 02/13/2007 08:20:46 AM · #90
Great challenge - Bad timing:

02/13/2007 09:00:58 AM · #91
Originally posted by UrfaTheGreat:
damn you rain!!!!


DITTO!!
 02/13/2007 09:18:05 AM · #92
/rant on

Who had this great idea of street photography IN THE MIDDLE OF WINTER! There are people from Canada on this site... White pictures are not all that cool.

/rant off
 02/13/2007 09:43:58 AM · #93
agreed ... especially since Detroit is about to get dumped on with snow ... this will make 'street shooting' pretty difficult ... you'll see a few bundled up people, scurrying from car to building and back again ...
 02/13/2007 09:45:10 AM · #94
Originally posted by candlerain:
/rant on

Who had this great idea of street photography IN THE MIDDLE OF WINTER! There are people from Canada on this site... White pictures are not all that cool.

/rant off

actually i expect them to be QUITE COOL (-17C out ....)
02/13/2007 10:18:50 AM · #95
Okay, having seen the INCREDIBLE work that is being shown as examples on this and 'the other' forum, I'm feeling a bit intimidated now. I went out and about yesterday and took some "nice" shots...but I'm feeling the urge to get out again and shoot some more. Been doing some browsing and found this link to Henri Cartier Bresson. My favourite photo on the page is entitled "Madrid 1933" - the one with the children taken from right down ON THE street.

Trying to read this forum and the parallel one on sharing experiences of Street Photography. It's mindblowing how much talent is on this site!

Message edited by author 2007-02-13 10:25:41.
 02/13/2007 10:21:59 AM · #96
my only possibility for shooting is today for an hour or so..
aaaghhh...
at least the snow is supposed to hold off till this evening here ...
 02/13/2007 10:34:43 AM · #97
Originally posted by scarbrd:


From a photojournalist perspective, asking to take someones picture leads to posing, setting up, non-candid types of shots. You will at least lose some degree of spontaneity.

Legally, you don't need permission to photograph someone of something out in public. Some may object, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.

The key is to never let them know they've been photographed, unless you want them to pose, say for an environmental photograph.

I doubt many of Henri Cartier-Bresson subject were even aware that a picture was being taken.

This may sound somewhat deceptive, but that's what street photography is all about IMO, capturing a true moment, not a set up. Not to say a setup couldn't work or would be DNMC, just saying if you look at Henri Cartier-Bresson's work you'll see very few setups in his "street" work.


So, what do you do if they DO notice that you seem to be taking their picture? What's your response to them that you snuck a picture?
 02/13/2007 10:36:06 AM · #98


Caught this one in Beijing last March during a rickshaw tour of the old neighborhoods. Would love to be back there for this challenge.
 02/13/2007 10:38:06 AM · #99
//www.afterimagegallery.com/bressonrussianchild.htm

this one brought a tear to my eye...so sad!

I'll just have to look on the bright side that luckily we're not able to make photo's like that anymore. (well not here, sadly some other parts of the world do)
 02/13/2007 10:39:23 AM · #100
Originally posted by Puckzzz:
//www.afterimagegallery.com/bressonrussianchild.htm

this one brought a tear to my eye...so sad!

I'll just have to look on the bright side that luckily we're not able to make photo's like that anymore. (well not here, sadly some other parts of the world do)


sad photo:(

have you been to Sibir? :( Africa is another example. not much has changed since that time in too many places. unfortunately:(

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