STREET SHOOTING
Street shooting is improvisation. Musicians who improvise know their scales so well they don’t need to think about them when they play. They think of how they want to sound and express themselves automatically. The same is true with street shooting. Exposure and focus are obvious skills. But a skill more difficult to master is […]
WORTH THE WAIT
Street shooting requires an instantaneous reaction to what you are seeing. It’s this need to react immediately to whatever is happening on the street, in the moment, that excites me the most when I’m shooting. I usually don’t wait for a picture to happen. I prefer to move into situations rather than stand still and […]
WORKING INSIDE
Shooting on the inside – Working your way in. One of the advantages of Leicas over bigger and noisier cameras is they let me work on the “inside” of situations. Working with wide angle lenses it’s possible for me to stand in the middle of, or very close to the situation I’m photographing without disturbing […]
BLACK & WHITE HYBRID WORKFLOW
Leica M6 film camera[/captioThis isn’t a post about the ongoing battle between film and digital. I shoot both depending on my needs. [Note: This post is updated for 2021.] In my ideal world I shoot film. I love the small, quiet Leica M6 bodies. I love taking a picture, forgetting about it, then rediscovering it […]