I am probably, at heart, a street photographer.
I can posed shots fine:
Fig 1
And I am working to get posed shots now,
Fig 2
using the lights and shadows and background
Fig 3
to create a feel sufficient to burn away the seams of illusion
Fig 4
Aiming to create, in short, photos at events
Fig 5
that can compete with individual photos in organised, staged shoots.
Maybe even stuff that starts to look like art.
Fig 6
But even though I am learning to do these things, to create shots from scratch, and I would hope I’m not too bad, I’m finding I don’t enjoy them as much.
Not to say that I don’t enjoy them; I do.
But.
They don’t speak to me as clearly as what I would prefer to be doing:
Shots that capture a moment in transition
Fig 7
Here a moment, gone in the next– serendipitous images captured in micro 4/3
fig 8 (although I confess to cheating and asking the No-Face to stand next to him)
I’m looking for Cartier-Bresson’s “moment”.
Which means… street.
All photos are from my AFA day 1 (Album here: )
and AFA day 3 album here
collection
Fig 1: Vienna West and Jonathon Mac, as Prussia and..er, sorry, not sure, from Hetalia. If anyone wants to enlighten me please do so.
Fig 2: Akikawa Narumi and Miyuki Ayakama as Monomi and Monokuma from Dangan Ronpa
Fig 4: Jaye Tempest as Go Go Tamago from Big Hero 6 Album here:
Fig 5 : Miki Kuro as fanart Kirito, Sword Art Online
Fig 6: ?? as Seras Victoria, from Hellsing.
Fig 7: Alexander Li, Marcus Yong, Carlos Stark Greywind and Okami Kenpachi and a WHOLE bunch of milsim cosers enacting a massive mexican standoff. (Marcus Yong is the only sane guy here, trying to persuade the guy with a 4-barrel M203 NOT to pull the trigger.)
Fig 8: Glenn Yoong as Death Gun (Sword Art online) and… dunno who as NO Face (from Spirited Away)
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