San Francisco,china town,street photography

Street Photography – Learning something new

/ 04/01/2014 / Comments Off on Street Photography – Learning something new / Street Photography
Design is a fundamental human activity, relevant and useful to everyone. Anything humans create—be it product, communication or system—is a result of the process of making inspiration real. I believe in doing what works as circumstances change: quirky or unusual solutions are often good ones. Nature bends and so should we as appropriate. Nature is always right outside our door as a reference and touch point. We should use it far more than we do.- Maggie Macnab, Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principles in Design

Last weekend, I took a workshop from Neeley Main on street photography in San Francisco’s China town.  By nature, I am a landscape photographer (pun intended), so this was a stretch for me.  I appreciated Neeley’s skill at working with each person for where they are at.  This particular workshop was offered through Incredible Travel Photos which is Oliver Klink’s site.  Neeley, carries on Oliver’s traditions of

  • Knowing the area that you are shooting & how to shoot it
  • Knowing Photography
  • Being a great teacher

If you get a chance, take a workshop from either of them.

I stretched my photography to get more involved with people close up so that faces filled a significant portion of the frame highlighting the persons rather than the place.   I still have a ways to progress in this skill.

San Francisco,china town,street photography

San Francisco,china town,street photography

One of the assignments given, which I continue to marvel at was: “Spend the next 40 minutes covering these two blocks”  This exercise forced me to look at scenes in a very different way.  It also made it possible to capture the roasted pig photo

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