Exposed with equipment that is both small and unassuming and tough as nails. Rangefinders, baby.
If you are afraid of scratching your gear, the fondlers will invite you to shoot a birthday party for them.
Your gear will get beaten.
Knocked.
And generally abused.
I want to know that no matter what ... I can make an exposure under any circumstance. Battery or not.
You never know when that circumstance will look lovely.
Well-composed.
Maybe not the sharpest.
Maybe there’s a lot of grain.
Maybe it’s even slightly out-of-focus. Never stopped Mssr. Cartier-Bresson! ;)
But it works.
I don’t forgive a lot of mistakes with other photography but with street just its imperfect roots lend some forgiveness.
You have to be prepared to be the camera-geek whom always has a camera on their person.
‘tis a reason I’ve learned to conceal one rather well.
For ... having a concealed camera, which is almost whisper silent and can allow focusing without looking through its viewfinder, can recordbeautiful moments when if the photographer were noticed ... it would be ... contrived.
My vision of street photography was influenced by those that “set the style.”
I prefer to see the human zoo in black and white and beautiful shades in between with unsurpassed shadow detail.
Grain is beautiful.