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Subject: Re: [Leica] PAW wk29/sl
From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 07:03:19 -0700
References: <BB3D4550.1508%steve@streetphoto.net>

Steve LeHuray showed:
Subject: PAW wk29/sl
> http://www.streetphoto.net/paw2003/wk29.html<<<

Hi Steve,
It's all about "feeling / seeing the neighbourhood" in this photograph. :-)
Good one.

One of the things you do consistantly is not only capturing people in the
picture, of course quite often the person is the main anchour, but it's the
environment of where it's happening that makes many of them work so
successfully as a "street photo!"

And many pictures we see from others who call themselves "street
photographers" is, they think street photography is all about the "people of
the streets!" And shoot too tight without including the environment of the
street where the people are or what they're doing within that environment.
Many become a quasi kind of portrait rather than the overall scene including
where it's happening.

Many of HCB's pictures include the "environment of the street" with a person
as part of the scene much like you do.

Keep 'em coming.
ted







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