Street Photography – Learning something new
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.
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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