^ then where's the photo of this sexy girl?!

i don't see a problem taking photo of beggars, it's the opposite of taking photos of beautiful celebrities.

my photo was featured here (last image) http://www.problogdesign.com/uncategorized...ty-in-pictures/

IMHO, there are really no rules, there no technique and surely there are no ecthics that specificly caters to street/candid shot.

its rules, technique and even social ecthics are just the reflection of the surrounding society.

too deep...? .

in layman term, we make the rules, we consider which techique is suitable and we will use the method that are acceptable to us in getting the picture. surely some of it will change overtime but currently we will used what best for us.

how to shoot street / candid if we're going to go around asking for model release forms to be signed?

You sound like a thug bro.

I guess in a way.. the normal rules for photo-geeks doesn't apply for candids since there's no time or is it possible to do a lighting setup, check WB, take test shot, blah blah blah... everything's by estimation.

Speaking of which, recently tried manually pre-focussing first and shooting from the hip. In that way, there's no guarantee of sharp sharp accurate focus but I kinda like the result and angle.

was that inspired by my random below hip blind shooting?

More towards my own inability to use a dslr properly for candid situation .. raising the camera or even the AF confirm beep is like sounding a klaxon to the crowd. Manually pre-focussing also eliminates this.

Example: This happened during the weekend on my walkabout.. once my eye touches the VF, the corner got these fellas....no choice lor...turn.. saja snap.. and show them pic later lor. I was about to shoot something else.

cheh i was hoping to inspire.

haha. for me it was simple, i just wanted to get something that's NOT from my thought process and i was surprised at what i could get.

and in fact, part of the reason was as what you mentioned - "raising the camera or even the AF confirm beep is like sounding a klaxon to the crowd." so i decided to go low and see what i could get.

here are a few more things you can do
1. disable beep
2. set AF to auto, let the camera decide. manual pre-focus is does things differently though it's another option if suits your liking. i prefer to have it random camera decision.

can my shot accepted as part of street photography genre?

i don't see why not?

nice one.

Here's one of mine.

Shot using a Voigtlander Bessa R3A + Nokton 40mm f1.4 S.C lens with Orange Filter Attached
Film was Kodak Tri X 400 developed in HC-110 dilution B at 6:30 with standard agitation (10/60)
Scanned using a Epson V700 film scanner




More street stuff in my photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/luc_13/sets/

this thread is getting a lot of hits
hahaha....
its nice to see everyone posting up more photos to share...

below the hip...
perhaps try going lower than that... or even doing it portrait instead of landscape....

disabling AF beep is fun~! hahaha... more candids available... especially to those photo-reluctant sensitive humans...

oh, mine below hip only, cannot go until knee level cos i dowan to look like ape la or the hunchback of no-L-lens.

hahaha...
you should try~ its more fun~
hahahahahahaha

i dowan to walk like ape la. i mention liao lor.

if walk walk squat then also people know liao la. go too low people say i curi shoot upskirt, dowan la.

do it more subtle la... aiyo....
tak kan you keep taking picture along the way.... the whole time?

going lower until squatting, that one i already do from time to time.

my style of street photography la, part of it would be walking around below hip shots no looking into viewfinder.

i see i see...
how often do you do it then?
whenever you travel or just do it whenever you feel like it?