"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."
- Ansel Adams
**ps: "My First Roll".. coming soon..
Street Photography | Another Entry, Projects & Plans...
© Safuan Shahril | Street Photography | Be My Valentine
Hi everybody! Ahhh I really need to stop taking photos of people from the back. I don't think it's a good way to take photos when it's about street photography. Because I don't know, it might be certain photos would look "OK" but probably most of them aren't really a good way to interpret the life in the streets.
So I hope you're all fine and how was your week? Anyway this week I started my half term break from college and you would think I have free time but not really to be honest. I got like assignments to finish by next week. So wish me luck! Don't worry, I will still go out shooting in my free time. :-)
Street Photography | The Face
© Safuan Shahril | Street Photography | Domino was Alive
"A photograph can look any way"
-Garry Winogrand
Street Photography | Review & Analyse...
© Safuan Shahril | Street Photography | Abstract Personality
Hello all the lovable people out there! Yes, I'm back with another post even though my recent post was two days ago. So, how was your previous week? I hope it was good and maybe something good happen to you or something.
Anyway, it's been a pretty good week for me and was really happy that I was shooting on the streets in Bristol as usual. This week it was awkwardly cold even though I was wearing three jackets on me. I don't know how to describe it but it was so cold in the mornings until it definitely affected my mood to take photographs. Yeah, I guess getting geared up for the winter properly makes a difference but when I usually hold my camera, I always keep my shooting hand out from my pocket just incase to react fast when it comes to taking photos. All of sudden, that one afternoon at lunch the lighting was good and I could not resist of not taking photos. I mean the shadows were strong, there were quite a lot of people, and the most important that the lighting was great. Plus, the sun did keep me warm enough. So it the end of the week I was a happy boy.
So in this post I will be talking through each photos from this week; how I analyse my photos and why and what it interests me the most in each photo. Get ready and enjoy! : )
Street Photography | Chasing the Light
© Safuan Shahril | Street Photography | Spot Light
"(Art) is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world."
- Ansel Adams
Street Photography | Shoot From the Hip Technique
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Hello all the lovable people out there! Today I'm going to share this technique called shoot from the hip. About this technique is that it's a really popular technique used by modern street photographers. I probably assume that this have done with DSLRs. I wouldn't even dare doing this with film cameras. Haha it's common sense and I shouldn't have mention it. But hey! since you're reading this I thought you might find this useful. To sum it up, “shooting from the hip” it is holding your camera at waist-level, and shooting upwards without looking through the viewfinder. One of the reasons why this technique is widely popular is because it allows you to take much more candid images of people, as they do not see you shooting them with your eye through your viewfinder, and assume you aren't taking images. Another thing is that when shooting from the hip, you often get a much more interesting perspective as you shoot from a much lower perspective.
Street Photography | The "U" Turn
© Safuan Shahril | Street Photography | The "U" Turn
"Every photograph is a battle of form versus content."
- Garry Winogrand
Inspirations...
© Safuan Shahril | Street Photography | Curious
Hi everybody! Another week flies by, another fresh week comes. Last week was a "fine" week for me. I wouldn't say it was bad but still I got my shots for this week. Sometimes it's not every time in your photography life that you get your best shots or get your best outcome and always remember life is full with obstacles that you never know it coming but the reasons why we would not be in the mood of taking photographs is because we are not inspired by something. Now in the modern days, I see a lot of people owned new DSLR and everyone wants to own a camera like everybody else too. Plus, I see a lot of people sometimes they feel down, I see people quit just because of their images aren't the best like the pros or sometimes your schedule are always full with works and feel you are never going to have time to shoot stuff. This is all due to feeling uninspired.
Street Photography | Double Visions
© Safuan Shahril | Street Photography | Double Visions
"Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed."
- Garry Winogrand
Street Photography | The Starting Line...
© Safuan Shahril | Street Photography | A Call
Hi everybody! It's Sunday and I would never thought I would write something on the weekend but hey I guess it might be your day ;). Anyway, how was your week? I hope you guys are well and my week has been pretty good. Last weekend, I was on my computer doing some research on street photography and all of sudden on Monday I brought my camera with me to college. I left my house early than I used to. Then once I got out of the bus, my hand went straight into my bag and brought out my camera but I only snapped a few because I was still struck by Monday Blues. However, once I finished college I spent at least an hour just taking pictures of the street. Pffftt... when I got home I wasn't happy with my results and at that time I felt determine to go on the streets the next day to take some more pictures.
Haha... There you go my first day with street photography. Yes I'm falling in love with it at the moment and I'm probably going to do this for a bit longer. So, you would expect a lot of street photography posts in the future and tips to share. Since this post is about my first steps into street photography, I'm going to share what I learned from last week:-
Street Photography | Rhythm
© Safuan Shahril | Street Photography | Rhythm, Shapes, Lines
"This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant of preoccupation, being a simultaneous coalition – an organic coordination of visual elements."
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
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