mrhitchens

Composition with flash, many street photographer I know will not wanna be using flash, Its a great tool to use to focus the viewers eye on the subject, etc

Best way I find is to get it off the camera

Boy and the Gun by David Hitchens, on Flickr

Reply to this Thread If interested in more tips^^

Pre focus shoot from the hip etc

Set your focal length to what you want, one, two metres away as you walk and people come into that range you shoot, Its kinda hit and miss at first though with practice you will be shooting awesome images.

Looking for some good photographers to do various work in Bangkok!

Some of this is working with an event an event agency from shooting meeting - concerts etc

Other work working with Law firms shooting property or whatever else it may be.

If anyone is interested send me a message and I will get back to you please include you location.

Please remember there is a level of skill and your own equipment required, the ability to speak Thai is a bonus but not required.

Thanks in advance^^

Plus

I anyone has any experience in wedding photography message me, as I am starting a new project and that may interest you

Date's are as follows 28th October - 1st November

Shooting Street photography early afternoon.

Late afternoon ( Stock) Cityscapes, Victoria Peak, ICC, etc

Interested Drop me a PM^^

Nice shot mate, great composition^^

Second Tip would be to get up close, I have been out with many photographers who feel shy I guess, I like to be more aggressive and get up there in close and personel^^

I was up shooting on Soi Cowboy last week 4 guys took a dislike to me photographing them and all surrounded me, demanded I delete the images, though I just tell them to get the <deleted> away from me.

I never delete a shot or give in to being bullied etc

The Ninja Look

klong toey market by David Hitchens, on Flickr

My first Tip, here we go

The fishing method, though it has nothing to do with fishing, lol

basically I look for a place with good composition, be it good light, nice lines etc, negative space, or what ever composition we can get from where we are.

I will work that space and find out the limits of where I wanna be to make the shot.

I will pre focus my camera on the distance I wanna shoot.

Then its just a case of waiting for something to happen within the area worth shooting, a rule people will avoid walking towards you so you need to mask the fact that you are going to be shooting them, I guess thats the trick.

Sometimes it works very well other times not so much^^

Silent Hill^^

I love this game and movie as well. Here some fooling around with my previous pic. Inspired by your comment( I know I should post it in "photoshoped images", but I hope I'll be forgiven by our mod )

Cool like it, epic^^

Markets Faces 05 by David Hitchens, on Flickr

Bangkok Street Kids 2 by David Hitchens, on Flickr

Bangkok Street Kids by David Hitchens, on Flickr

18-55 mm will pretty much cover your needs mate, what do you normally shoot?

I will say many of the well know camera shops in BKK will allow you to trade body or Glass, AV Camera, Fotofile etc

I pretty much shoot everything but are an expert of none.

Street photos/portraits/landscapes/animals/motor sport/night photographing, you name it, I am trying but with mixed luck

I find my Stylus1 just too short sometimes when using it for motor sport (Buriram superbike this year) and birds sitting high up in the trees but that is a small niche of my photographing not done often so spending huge amounts of $ for a 3/4 lens in that range (300mm equivalent) will be overkill so are not sure what to do with that.

I got some pretty good street shoots in Bangkok last year with my RX100 m3 that pretty much always sits in my belt-bag when going out, I am very happy with this little camera.

I am also a bit concerned about the Fuji's XT10 "only" 16MP, there is a huge discussion going on in dpreveiw how much MP you need when looking at your photos on a 40" 4k pc monitor. Also rumors of Fuji soon launching a 24MP camera, hmm.

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3902304

16MP is fine mate, I do a lot of street photography with a Fujifilm X100s which is a 16MP camera^^

Yep, In the morning mate I did start typing a long thread out but, but people seemed to have arrived at my home and I have lost what the hell I was typing.

In the morning I will pick up where I was going

Silent Hill^^

Nice Shot^^

Like it mate^^ but is it real Im thinking its a edit in Photoshop ?

Klong Toey slums Street shoot Saturday

Anyone interested in joining please drop me a Pm, will maybe a 3 hour walk shoot, drinks after etc

Start sometime in the afternoon time not confirmed as someone seems to to making a movie of the walk, but drinks and party after^^

18-55 mm will pretty much cover your needs mate, what do you normally shoot?

I will say many of the well know camera shops in BKK will allow you to trade body or Glass, AV Camera, Fotofile etc