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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2084966170227069497&q=street+photography&total=3892&start=30&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=7
Please, tell me this is a load of guys taking the pi$$. Please, can anyone be this bad?
You owe me five minutes of my life back...!
Regards,
Bill
xayraa33
03-05-2008, 12:29
Nothing here but a bunch of old coots socializing on the street with their dslrs instead of being on an internet photo forum where they belong.:rolleyes:
These are what are known as "Street Shooters" - You see them on the street and you want to shoot them!
More seriously (but only just) I think the principle they are using is "safety in numbers." If one old guy is taking photos of pretty girls walking past he is a pervert. If many are doing it, it is a camera club. I say this jokingly but I am often embarrassed to photograph people on the street in case I get a handbag in the face. Perhaps its easier to do it as a group.
Anupam Basu
03-05-2008, 12:52
LOL ... I have been doing it wrong all this time!
ClaremontPhoto
03-05-2008, 12:55
It's a laugh.
Nobody is this bad.
Wow,
Wicked cool! These guys must be pros. Who else would stand around Paak Street station all day with big SLRs and flash outfits!
Actually one great thing about this video link.............is that it led me to another one.
The following link contains a video about medium format digitals. Love the movements on the Horseman...... the sensor moves not the lens.
Sorry I do not mean to hijack the thread so please ignore this message.:)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2084966170227069497&q=street+photography&total=3892&start=30&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=7
FallisPhoto
03-05-2008, 13:28
Actually one great thing about this video link.............is that it led me to another one.
The following link contains a video about medium format digitals. Love the movements on the Horseman...... the sensor moves not the lens.
Sorry I do not mean to hijack the thread so please ignore this message.:)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2084966170227069497&q=street+photography&total=3892&start=30&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=7
Don't worry, you didn't. The link takes you right back to the original video of the three guys who couldn't take a good photo to save their lives.
Oooops How embarrassment!
Try this one if you are interested.
Now please ignore this message. Sorry but I just love that movable sensor.... mondo cool.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1470575447051831741&q=medium+format+digital&total=65&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1
Those guys must be terrorists.
bmattock
03-05-2008, 13:40
Those are all Leica camera collectors.
You may wonder why no Leica cameras...
That is because they do not wish to risk their damage or theft in such a bad area.
So they take out their dSLR cameras, stand in one spot, take dodgy photos of more-or-less nothing, talk about wide-angle lenses they own but will not use, and then they go home and fondle.
Which is fine with me. I find it odd, but I don't care if that's what they wish to do. I guess it is like Fantasy Football. They don't really own any football teams, but they all agree to pretend they do.
I watched it again, and I'm still hoping it's a mickey taking video. Can anyone REALLY be this bad?
This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CTQG9dCPA) may be an antidote for what I just watched. Please tell me that it is!
FallisPhoto
03-05-2008, 19:15
Oooops How embarrassment!
Try this one if you are interested.
Now please ignore this message. Sorry but I just love that movable sensor.... mondo cool.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1470575447051831741&q=medium+format+digital&total=65&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1
Very cool indeed, unlike what Hasselblad has done. That flat-out sucks. Of course, people have been saying that for a year now (must be an old clip).
BillBingham2
03-05-2008, 20:59
I watched it again, and I'm still hoping it's a mickey taking video. Can anyone REALLY be this bad?
And somebody wants to see five prints from each of them......
Getting back to my title, yes they can be that bad. I knew a few really bad photographers who worked as photographers for Kodak back in the 70s. One traded a complete Leica M3 Visoflex system with all lenses and a few M lenses for an SL2 and a 50mm lens. That does not make him a bad photographer, just DUMB.
Getting really board when I lived on Long Island for about nine months I joined a local camera club. One guy was there to photograph and do girls, many were there to enter the monthly contests held by the county level organization (club of clubs). A few wanted to learn, but the club never really got around to looking at photography any way but to win contests.
I took one of members (OK, she was female and very pretty) to the International Center of Photography in NYC one after noon. She was shocked, there were pictures being exhibited there that were out of focus, weren't perfect they way contest pictures needed to be the club had told her. As we walked around the floors I explained to her that great pictures can can capture an emotion just as well as a pretty scene. She was as confused as possible on the train ride back out east.
I knew a couple of guys who could have been in the video 20 years ago.
B2 (;->
It reminds me a lot of the Joel Meyerowicz video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dipTqJfiE4
I think they're both pretty funny.
It reminds me a lot of the Joel Meyerowicz video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dipTqJfiE4
I think they're both pretty funny.
I just finished reading Bystander, written by Joel Meyerowitz. good stuff!! :)
The difference with Meyerowitz is that he produces results, I doubt these people did as they didn't really shoot anything.
Meyerowitz plays up for the camera I think, he's a natural performer.
This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CTQG9dCPA) may be an antidote for what I just watched. Please tell me that it is!
It is ! Thanks for the link.
They are having fun. That's ok with me.
Maxapple88
03-06-2008, 16:37
These guys are everything thats wrong with photography.
These guys are everything thats wrong with photography.
sez the poster with a flickr!?! link in his sig :/
And IMHO, I'm not sure Mr. Meyerowitz produces anything more compelling than the guys in the OP's linked video.
Anupam Basu
03-06-2008, 18:56
Um, what's wrong with using flickr as a convenient place to put one's work up online? There's crap on there, but there are some seriously good photographers too. Or are we just supposed to be doing wet prints? I do both, so am just wondering.
There is a better version of this video here: http://www.joelmeyerowitz.com/photography/interview_06.html
I have a meyerowitz photography book on summer and it's brilliant, a complete joy to look through.
RobScumaci
03-06-2008, 19:58
Seriously? Come on. His stuff is close to perfect for the style IMO.
And IMHO, I'm not sure Mr. Meyerowitz produces anything more compelling than the guys in the OP's linked video.
Maxapple88
03-07-2008, 01:07
I think Flickr is a great tool to exchange material with other keen photographers. I wouldn't although compare it to a bunch of old geezers huddling in a street corner and assulting or possibly even offending strangers with their cameras, which seem to be the only reason for them being there. They make life harder for people who really want to take pictures on the streets. Street photography is hard work, and imo not "in your face". Without Meyerowitz, and some others, street photography would still be in the stone ages. I'm pretty sure that what he does is more compelling than what they do.
Um, what's wrong with using flickr as a convenient place to put one's work up online? There's crap on there, but there are some seriously good photographers too. Or are we just supposed to be doing wet prints? I do both, so am just wondering.
Amen! I too am a Flickr member. I get a free pro account from my ISP, so it's a no brainer for me. The range of photographs on Flickr is all over the photographic spectrum. It allows people to share their photographs with family and friends. There are many RFF folks with Flickr accounts! So, if Flickr is not your cup of tea, then there is always many other sites - Smugmug, Picasa, RFF, etc. I enjoy photography as a hobby. I apologize for my previous post as it may have been taken as a put down to the "street photographers" in the video. If they enjoy getting together and talking, then good for them - just PLEASE don't make me watch it again!!!!
Grab your camera and go out and shoot something - except any of the areas/facilities considered sensitive by the Department of Homeland Security.
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