At around lunch time I grab my Canon T3i and the kit lens that it came with to do street photography.
I started a few weeks ago.
I’ve been inspired by Eric Kim and his blog to do this. If you haven’t checked out his videos using a GoPro to record how he does street photography, you got to check them out.
When I photographed something on the street (which isn’t street photography) in the past, it looked something like this:
Now I’ve changed what I’ve photographed a bit.
Most of the shots that would get likes on Instagram were landscape related, but something came over me. I talked to the owner of the coffee shop, Reverie, and asked him what’s changed in 10 years. He said all the middle class are gone (from Cole Valley). It made me think that I need to use photography to preserve what’s left of what I love about San Francisco so that people do not forget.
Even though my “street” photos don’t get as many likes like the one above, I feel it captures what San Francisco is like right now, workers have cell phones and the cars look a certain way.
Compositionally, It’s far from perfect, there’s a rhythm that’s lacking and it’s not very HCB, but out of the hundreds of shots I’ve taken, I think this is my first real street photograph.