Faces of Exit 270 Part 23

My form of street photography is more like street portraits. I am simply making an historical record of the people I find in this space called Exit 270.

My method of street photography is blending in with my surroundings and trying to be as little confrontational as possible as I go about choosing my subjects. I work quickly and at times pretend that I am photographing something beyond the subject.

The few times that I have engaged in conversation with a subject, I have found that they don’t mind me photographing them...in fact sometimes they completely ignore me. I think the key to street photography is to be respectful of the subject. There are times when I am asked not to photograph, and I respect the request even when I know it would have been a great shot.

Faces of Exit270 Part 18

Street photography is a process of examining in detail the area you find yourself attached to.  I use the word-attached -meaning that it is an area you are familiar with and gravitate to on a regular basis.    

Street photography is an urban adventure -you turn a corner and people and faces emerge to greet you.  Your eyes work quickly and you quickly move in with camera in hand to capture the scene.   If you have preset your camera settings -you only have to observe, isolate your subject, quickly shoot and move on.

I approach it with the understanding that I am not photographing a place but rather the people that occupy this space.  So my basic approach is to move in as close as allowable to capture the faces that I find lurking in the space I call Exit270.