Street Photography for the Purist

That’s why you don’t see portrait photographers doing a lot of street.
Street is difficult. If you know your composition, set-ups are easy. There is nothing set-up about the street.
Nothing easy is worthwhile. Unless she has a daddy complex and an oral fixation. Sorry. Couldn’t resist.
It’s great fucking exercise too!
Wear really comfortable shoes. I prefer sneakers. Not Converse, though, unless, that is, you live on the East Side and it’s cool. ;)
Even if you have the “general light” well estimated there will be situations when there’s something that wasn’t counted on. That streak of light in the
shade that blows out a subject. That spot of shade in the daylight and your subject is a couple stops under what’s ideal.
You’ll learn.
It will all make sense.
So what if you hear, “What ... you think you’re HCB? Running around a city with your rangefinder.”
Just smile.
And think about light.
And making photographs.
The people who defend digital and how much better they think it is than film only think that way because they don’t have the balls to make an
exposure they can’t see a second afterwards. They’re insecure. Daddy beat them.
Go shoot.
Go fail.
Go learn.
You’ll learn whilst you’re waiting ... and thinking about the photographs you made ... and how they actually look on the contact sheet. Instant
gratification isn’t everything. Unless you’re a porn star and you can only enjoy sex whilst on drugs.
You’ll have a leg-up on digital photographers who depend on their insecurity that is the monitor and is used as their visual crutch.