Guys,
what can I say, this work lately is just fantastic, even with some of you going out today to see what you could shoot and come up with. This is exactly the reasons why I wanted to start this thread, with the focus (excuse the pun) being on creating and experimenting with photography rather than just constantly commenting on each others work and having to put up with the resulting tattle and digs in some other area's.
Bolton Dave - really chuffed to hell mate to see your work making an appearance again, that's brilliant, keep it coming.
Street photography is a complex little subject in some ways, there are things we are naturally wary of, like being seen as a terrorist with an exocet Nikon under our shoulder, or trying to be in the right place at the right time. Earlier on when I first started this thread I talked briefly about people trying to learn to use their camera's on a manual setting. Please don't take this too literally, unless your really familiar with light and can pretty much guess an exposure with your eye then its very likely that using a program or a Semi-Automatic mode (Tv, Av or P) might be best to start out with.
Manual is fine if you've got the shot your after in the can, or card these days...lol ', but for trying to get that street shot in general it wise to keep the camera in a Priority mode. I suppose its like most aspects of photography, don't run until you can walk and shoot a way that you feel competent, and happy with to get you personally the best results. Its really what ever works for you and with digital camera technology being as it is nowadays its a lot easier to trust an internal meter and all the clever electronic gubbins that feeds off it in these modes, to pretty much trust it to come close enough to what your after, leaving you of course the time to focus on the subject itself. An added advantage being that if shooting RAW you can rest easy that you've got a latitude of about 1.5 stops each way if its not perfect!
I'm really pleased that you guys have taken to this thread with so much enthusiasm and its great to see such fantastic work being posted, as well as people leaving comments that they feel 'inspired', just a great result. If you have questions on auto camera modes that please feel free to post them here of indeed write into DC themselves for some guidance as they often can do a great piece on things like this and it acts then to help a much wider audience.
Take care lads and thanks for all the support with this new project.
Rgds
Tim
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