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Just came across this article last night, the author was talking about his street photography experience and the "comfort zone"

http://xpatscot.wordpress.com/photograph...fort-zone/


I guess most of us would do a bit of street photography from time to time, so how do you do it and what's your style?

Quite a few street photographer would just go straight up to someone and say, "can i take a photo of you?" for me, while i do something like that occasionally, most of the time i would just try to take a photo without being noticed. So i prefer to use a longer lens.. something like 100mm+ and try to take picture from a distance.

So what about you guys?

Too scared to do it! haha.

what? am i the only one who does (a bit of) street photography here!???

I point my camera slightly off the subject and use the side a/f points. So they don't think I am pointing at them, but I am actually taking a shot of them! If they don't like it, I guess they will come and tell me? I haven't had anybody come up and tell me I can't take a photo.

I do like the shots he captured at the end of his article. But approaching a homeless person, I am more scared of getting robbed.

I do also have to note that bodies + grips equal a size that scares away most people.

yes i also like to point the camera off the subject, i might even focus on another object from the same distance, then quickly re-compose the frame and take the photo.

big camera + grip + big lens definitely scares a lot of people away!!! people feel uncomfortable when i point my 70-200 f/2.8 towards them.

that's one of the reason why i got myself a gf1 .. even with the 45-200mm lens (which gives me 90-400mm equivalent range) , it's still a very small camera and i can sneakily take photo from a longer distance without being noticed or make them feel uncomfortable.

Thank you for reading my blog piece and a special thank you to CIM for the nice things he said about my pics. Happy (street) shooting. XpatScot

hi XpatScot, welcome to the forums!

just want to let you know i really enjoy reading your blog! i find your articles contain lots of useful and honest knowledge. And i'm so envy that you got the chance to do the Hong Kong Walk with those talented street photographers!
Please drop by here form time to time and share with us some photos you took.

oh btw, i'm "Richard @ auckland" on flickr

cool photos and article Xpatscot!