{"id":134,"date":"2012-08-05T13:28:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T21:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2012-08-05T13:28:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T21:28:12","slug":"working-on-street-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/05\/working-on-street-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Working on Street Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At around lunch time I grab my Canon T3i and the kit lens that it came with to do street photography.<\/p>\n<p>I started a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been inspired by <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/\">Eric Kim and his blog<\/a> to do this. If you haven&#8217;t checked out his videos using a GoPro to record <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/street-photography-videos\/\">how he does street photography<\/a>, you got to check them out.<\/p>\n<p>When I photographed something on the street (which isn&#8217;t street photography) in the past, it looked something like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/night_photo_santa_monice_blvd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/night_photo_santa_monice_blvd-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"night_photo_santa_monice_blvd\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/night_photo_santa_monice_blvd-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/night_photo_santa_monice_blvd-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ve changed what I&#8217;ve photographed a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the shots that would get likes on Instagram were landscape related, but something came over me. I talked to the owner of the coffee shop, Reverie, and asked him what&#8217;s changed in 10 years. He said all the middle class are gone (from Cole Valley). It made me think that I need to use photography to preserve what&#8217;s left of what I love about San Francisco so that people do not forget.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/worker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/worker-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"worker\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/worker-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/worker-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even though my &#8220;street&#8221; photos don&#8217;t get as many likes like the one above, I feel it captures what San Francisco is like right now, workers have cell phones and the cars look a certain way.<\/p>\n<p>Compositionally, It&#8217;s far from perfect, there&#8217;s a rhythm that&#8217;s lacking and it&#8217;s not very HCB, but out of the hundreds of shots I&#8217;ve taken, I think this is my first real street photograph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At around lunch time I grab my Canon T3i and the kit lens that it came with to do street photography. I started a few weeks ago. I&#8217;ve been inspired by Eric Kim and his blog to do this. If you haven&#8217;t checked out his videos using a GoPro to record how he does street &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/05\/working-on-street-photography\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Working on Street Photography<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}