Street photography is a common form of candid photography in which photos are taken in a street and the subjects are unaware of the photo being taken which creates a more natural look. These photos can be used to document historic events as well as showcase the differences in cultures as exhibited in Moriyama Daido’s Japanese photography.
SHOOT PLAN
| WHERE | WHO | WHY | WHEN |
| Main street in town | Random people in town | To find interesting features in people walking around | After school 19/11/20 |
CONTACT SHEET FOR SHOOT
These photos turned out horribly as the street was not busy due to many people avoiding crowded streets because of COVID so I couldn’t get the crowded kind of photos I wanted. I also l felt really uncomfortable taking these photos as I felt very morally dubious taking photos without consent so stopped very early on. With the photos I do have I am going to put in black and white to replicate Moriyama Daido’s.
On Photoshop, I cropped the images to make them focus more on individuals and then made them back and white to thew setting of maximum black. This made the photos look more dramatic and unsettling and I really liked how they turned out.
Here are my two favourite images. I like how the black and white tonal has given the photos a gloominess that effectively conveys the atmosphere at this current time period where not only is the weather cold and grim but also everything else is as coronavirus has shut everything down
