Paul,
That's a nice tele-portrait of a man and child, but street shooting
to me captures the environmental context of the street and the people
who populate it. The perspective in such a tele-portrait is not
intimate, nor does it capture the context of the street at all.
Photos like these two from my "PAW: People & Portaits 2005" series
are a little closer to the notion of street shooting as I see it:
http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/13.htm
http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/15.htm
There's nothing wrong with portraits on the street like the one you
display, but that's certainly nothing like the established aesthetic
of street photography as I have seen it characterized in the work of
Robert Frank, HCB and others.
Godfrey
On Jun 17, 2005, at 3:57 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
How does one do "street shooting" with a 200mm lens? You get out on
the street and trip the shutter <vbg>. Yes, I frequently shoot on
the street with a 35/2, but I don't always like "intimacy" in
street shooting. Sometimes I like to catch people unawares. Here's
a shot with the VS1 70-210/3.5 at 210 mm. It may not fit your
definition of "street shooting," which is a fuzzy term to begin
with, but it's on the street, and it's a shot.
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3322436
