What is Street Photography?

Street Photography is a sub genre of photo-journalism focusing on portraits taken in an urban environment, mainly telling the story of the subjects. The photos are of a candid nature, meaning the subject is unprepared for the photo,and in some cases, unknowing, meaning they are pictured in their everyday form and arent influenced by the camera being pointed at them.

Mood Board

Shooting

For my shoot, I took to the local town and set about capturing various people in every day situations. I thought about potentially telling their story through a photo, as well as any context based upon the surroundings and the subjects apperaance. Here is a contact  sheet of my selected images.,

Final Images

Here are my final images chosen from the whole shoot

Head and shoulders of a labourer with the background desaturated and the only colour being his HI-Viz

Same subject and technique as before, but holding a cone A different worker with lowered exposure and same method as first two

Two politicians or office workers

Coffee Break

 Market places + faces

Cowboy hat in the rain

Dylan, taken with flash when greeting me

 

My Favourite Image

Here is my favourite image from the whole shoot. It is of a worker in his HI-Viz jacket and I decided to completely satire his surroundings apart from his jacket due to the luminous nature of it and the contrast when compared to black and white. I took the photo as the day I chose to carry the shoot out on was quite a dark and muggy day, so his Hi-Viz really stood out in the dismal surroundings.