{"id":2146,"date":"2009-05-02T09:39:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T07:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2012-12-30T11:58:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T10:58:31","slug":"practice-in-street-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/2146","title":{"rendered":"Practice in Street Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Queen's<\/a><\/p>\n

A few years ago I wrote about another blogger who was photographing strangers in public to ridicule them<\/a>, which was something I disagreed with very strongly.\u00a0\u00a0 It brought up a lot of questions in regards to taking photos of people in public.\u00a0\u00a0 My personal opinion was that it was ok, that people in public are fair game, as long as you show them a little respect.\u00a0\u00a0 Taking photos of them to make fun of them is not something I would ever do.\u00a0\u00a0 During these conversations another photographer friend of mine voiced her opinion that it\u2019s not ok at all to take photos of people you don\u2019t know in public places, especially children.\u00a0\u00a0 As a parent herself, she felt it was a massive invasion of privacy to take photos of people\u2019s children without their permission.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s such a grey area, street photography\u2026 but it\u2019s also something a lot of people enjoy and get some great photos<\/a> from.\u00a0 Ever since those previous discussions about it, I\u2019ve never felt comfortable taking my camera out and capturing strangers in their day to day lives\u2026 I worry they\u2019ll get angry, tell me off or that someone on the sidelines will see me and cause a scene.\u00a0\u00a0 So, I\u2019ve avoided it.<\/p>\n

Since getting my new camera<\/a> and joining a photography club, I\u2019ve been wishing more and more that I could get the nerve up to \u201cjust do it\u201d, like the other members urged me to do after opening a discussion with them about it.\u00a0 I am a people watcher at heart and as someone who really enjoys photography, my instinct is to try to capture some of what I see on \u2018film\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0 A lot of the other members of the club can relate to this and for some, it is their main source of enjoyment in photography.<\/p>\n

So this weekend, while out in the city center looking for inspiration during Queen\u2019s Day, I decided to just suck it up and give it a go.\u00a0 I enjoyed it as much as I thought I would and I admit, I tried not to be obvious and shot most people from a fair distance.\u00a0 As my new friends said\u2026 the more I do it the more confident I will become, but often the closer you are the better the photo.<\/p>\n

The above photo is my favorite of the day.\u00a0\u00a0 It was just two random girls in the crowd whose expressions made me stop and ponder for a moment.\u00a0\u00a0 They both have such lovely and interesting faces and I\u2019m glad this is one of the moments I chose to take the risk, as the photo came out quite well.\u00a0 At least in my opinion.<\/p>\n

Later in the month I am going to Amsterdam with my photo club to the World Press Photo 2009 Exhibit<\/a>.\u00a0 One of the more experienced street photographers of the club has offered to take me around Amsterdam afterward to give me some tips and \u2018guard\u2019 me while I take some shots.\u00a0 As he knows one of my biggest fears is someone getting angry with me or telling me off, he\u2019s also offered to go to battle for me if the need arises.\u00a0\u00a0 Not that we\u2019d fight with anyone who has a problem with getting their photo taken, of course, but if someone did<\/em> get angry I\u2019d probably be too stunned and afraid to speak.\u00a0\u00a0 So, it will definitely be handy to have someone more experienced and confident there with me, just to be on the safe side.<\/p>\n

I think street photography is something I could really come to enjoy, if I can get over my fear of it properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few years ago I wrote about another blogger who was photographing strangers in public to ridicule them, which was something I disagreed with very strongly.\u00a0\u00a0 It brought up a lot of questions in regards to taking photos of people in public.\u00a0\u00a0 My personal opinion was that it was ok, that people in public are …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8,49],"tags":[315,33,308,321,320],"class_list":["post-2146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-crafty-creations","category-life-in-nl","category-photography","tag-holidays","tag-netherlands","tag-photo-club","tag-queens-day","tag-street-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8932,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions\/8932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}