What are candid portraits?
It is when you take a portrait photo of some one without them knowing to get a more realistic and a not staged image.
This is an image I took as the subject isn’t engaging with the camera, and also isn’t setup or staged in any way.
What is street photography?
It captures unmediated chance encounters and random incidents that happen in day to day life. It is also called candid photography.
Examples of street photography
Some other great examples : http://neocha.com/magazine/asia-by-night/
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer considered a master of street photography. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment.
Famous Images
He was alive during August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004, which is why his work is all in black and white.
My Favoutite Henri Cartier Image
I like this image because he has used the railings to create leading lines, which draws the viewers eye instantly to the subject. The rule of thirds is applied in this image, the subject on the bike sits in the top left of the image.
The black and white effect creates a drama in the image, the emptiness makes the image stronger as it singles out the subject
Henri Cartier-Bresson X Magnum
In 1947, following the aftermath of the Second World War, four pioneering photographers founded a now legendary alliance. The Magnum Photos agency.
Cartier-Bresson helped deliver the highest quality photographic content and has extensive experience in creating significant visual records, which became note-worthy editorial, books, events, exhibitions, and digital campaigns.
Compare And Contrast
Henri Cartier-Bresson 
Teemu Jarvinen
The image by Bresson was taken in black and white and has a high contrast, to make it have more definition. Jarvinen’s image is taken in Tokyo, where they have lots of neon and vibrant lights, that illuminate the subject. The lights have a soft infused glow to them, with gives the image a more positive aspect to it.
Both photographers uses reflections in the image. Bresson reflects the subject through a puddle in the horizontal axis, where as Jarvinen reflects the light on the right side of the image to create a blur effect through a window. This effect adds more detail to the image without over crowding it, and making it busy.
My Street Photography Pictures
I took all these images on the same day except for the postman one. It was cloudy so I went for more dramatic shots, so that I could edit them with a more moody style.
My Final Images
To edit them I increased the contrast and saturation to make them pop out more.
For the images that have a more of a rainy day atmosphere I decreased the saturation and individually masked over bright and colourful objects and toned the colours down, so that they blended with the image, for example the blue car in the background of the lady crossing the road, and the bright yellow cove sign in the image where the man is sitting down on the bench.
The image of the postman in the rain I edited a few more rain lines and used a motion blur, so that it would seem as if there were falling. I also increased the definition and made the colours more dark to give it the rainy day atmosphere.
The photo that’s includes bokeh isn’t edited that much all I did was boost the saturation and used an “s” curve to manipulate the contrast. The create the bokeh effect I positioned my camera close to some lights to shoot through them, then focused on the subject, so that the lights would become out of focus.
For the image where there are two people on a bike all increased the saturation, darken the background and brightened the subject, then finally added vignette.
My Best Images
I choose these 2 images as my final images as I thought they both were my strongest images that fitted into the candid photography niche. They both captured people acting natural, in an unstated environment.
The image on the left as strong detail and definition, which makes the image more dramatic, that combined with the rain, the deep reds and glowing shop windows creates a great image. the building is straight with the horizon, and there is a slope which the postman is pushing his cart up, this image show the struggle of every day life.
The image on right, the bright orange jacket contrast the entire background, the vignette helps lead you eye the to bike as well. I shot this with a focal length of f.5.4 so the people in the background are blurred.