The images below show my experience of trying to do street photography. My photography class went to town to capture a variety of images of people in their natural environment. The publics reaction were all very different as some appeared to be annoyed that their pictures were taken without consent, others were smiling, but the majority didn’t seem to mind as they carried on walking. At the start I asked for consent to take people’s pictures. However, I then realised that if I did that for every person I walked by all my images would be staged and not candid as most street photographs are. It would also take a long time to ask for consent from each person and I only had 30 minutes to take as many street photographs as I can. So I began taking loads of images of people in different parts of town, hoping that some of the results were good. Although I had my camera on sports mode to capture subjects in motion, some of the images turned out blurry.  Even though it was a struggle to take street photographs, I did manage to capture some focused moments of people walking. The zoom on the camera lens also helped as I could take close up images of people without having to get myself close to the subject. The contact sheet reflects my own experience of doing street photography for the first time.