From the course: Street Photography: Candid Portraiture
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Working a busy urban street scene in low light
From the course: Street Photography: Candid Portraiture
Working a busy urban street scene in low light
- Alright, well, after spending some time at what could only be considered the epicenter of Times Square, we walked a little bit further. We were still in the middle of the action but when we saw the huge American flag lit up with LED lights, I mean it's such a powerful icon that I thought, "Oh, let's see what we can do with that." So the lit up American flag was similar to a lot of the kind of subject matter that I want to find. A place where there's something there and then I can sort of stay put and let people walk through and they create the photograph. Sometimes there's the ability to layer your photograph, adding something in the foreground, and then you hope and wait for the things to enter your frame and you trigger on instinct. And everyone's got their own idea of what is interesting. One thing that I kinda don't like is when people have straps or backpacks. That can be, for me, a little bit distracting. I'm looking for interesting characters that, for whatever reason, I'm…
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