Street photography
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“Everybody Street illuminates the lives and work of New York’s iconic street photographers and the incomparable city that has inspired them for decades. The documentary pays tribute to the spirit of street photography through a cinematic exploration of New York City, and captures the visceral rush, singular perseverance and at times immediate danger customary to these artists. Covering nine decades of street photography, “Everybody Street” explores the careers and influences of many notable photographers––a number of whom have never been documented, featuring: Bruce Davidson, Elliott Erwitt, Jill Freedman, Bruce Gilden, Joel Meyerowitz, Rebecca Lepkoff, Mary Ellen Mark, Jeff Mermelstein, Clayton Patterson, Ricky Powell, Jamel Shabazz, Martha Cooper, and Boogie, with historians Max Kozloff and Luc Sante."
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Jeff Mermelstein
Jeff Mermelstein is a Photographer who specialises in the streets of NewYork were he lives. He started his career in 1981 by combining his own personal photos with his work. He has a very unique quirky style and captures odd everyday moments in a photograph. He uses humour in his pictures, for example they are taken on very fast shutter speed so that he can capture the facial expression and often from distorted angles.
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This is one of his more famous photos of what looks like a man in a rush running for a bus. I especially like this photo because it is very well composed, the colours are vivid, sharp and there is lots of tones and contrast between them. What makes the photo interesting is that it's a very simple photo taken of an every day action but at a time where both feet are off the ground in an unreal position so there is also a comedic element to it. the subject matter is central and I also like that it has a slightly tilted angle it adds to the feeling of the photo. The background is very busy but doesn't draw attention away from the foreground. I could ask the photographer one thing it would be how difficult was it focusing the camera in such a small amount of time.
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This is my favourite photo, it has captured the shadow of the boy in mid step so it almost looks like there are two walkways. The shadow was captured it in the moment and was at the perfect angle at which you could see it clearly - this would have been hard to set up deliberately. The picture has strong shapes with the window frames and walkway set against the brick wall its a but it also creates a calm mood because of the fuzzy texture and wide depth of field of the photo. I think this photo would be better if it had more contrast and it doesn't have many different tones but its very difficult to set up a photo like this with only seconds to take a photo like this one.
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This is my least favourite photo its very dull, plain, the lighting is bad and photo hasn't been well composed. I think this photo would look better in colour because there isn't much contrast between all the grey tones. It is framed badly and the subject is hard to see because its very far away and unpleasingly off centre and the horizon is tilted but however I like the angle looking up at the bird and it has a very wide depth of field.
It feels like a very lonely sad photo which wasn't the original context of the photo. |
CroppedThese are my examples of cropped photos I have taken around school, Street photographers often use this style in their photographs.
Cropped photos focus on a certain part of a image that has been zoomed in on. It draws your eye to something you might not usually notice. Over the shoulderthese are photos I have taken from around school, over peoples shoulders, lots of street photographer use this style. It give you a new perspective of what that person sees.
Walk on byMany street photographers take images of people walking by. These images are quite blurry but capture the fact that people are moving in them
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Surfaces and texturesThese are the backgrounds of many of the photographs taken around school, from the patterns of the brickwork to the natural surface of the grass
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Rule of thirds |
The Rule of Thirds is an imaginary grid that can help make better photographs. As you can see in this diagram, your image is divided up into 9 segments by lines placed one third and two thirds across the surface. Some cameras have the option to turn these grid lines on in the viewfinder.
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These are some of the photos I took around school using the rule of thirds.