Joel Meyerowitz On Street Photography

[AcadieLibre]

Very well known Street Photographer Joel Meyerowitz has a video on YouTube on his technique. I watched it and had a few good laughs, one of his comments are stay invisible but yet here is what looks like a tall man all dressed in black bobbing and weaving and sticks out like a sore thumb. He does make a lot of good points, just on that one I am not sure he was blending and not being noticed lol. Anyway for those looking to do street photography worth watching but I think you may want to take some of his points with a grain of salt.


Street Photography

[tegan]

Yes, I don't think he blended in. Wearing dark clothes is useful since it makes a black camera and black lens almost invisible at a distance. The black tuque seemed to be overdoing it. Keeping on the move can be helpful too, because by the time you are noticed, you have moved somewhere else.

In the summer wearing dark clothes and shooting from the shady area of a building works well, as does using a tiltable LCD screen and shooting from waist level. A telephoto zoom gives one lots of room to be invisible too.

The top two pocket cameras are Panasonic and Sony at the moment. They are useful for close work with wide angle focal lengths.

Tegan

[cdanddvdpublisher]

an interesting video - not sure how seriously i can take it though, just seemed off somehow

[Marko]

It looks so dated lol - the titles, the music - I half expected to hear the theme song from "shaft',,,,and it says it was done in 2003? The styling of the video suggests 1973.

Still a few good tips and a few good laughs.

Thx!
Marko