I won't have time to post this in the morning, so you get all get a bit of extra time to think about this week's shot
Congrats to all that had a go at Week 6's challenge, here is the instruction for Week 7
"Make a picture containing The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" originally set by Jens Olof Lasthein
It is up to yourselves on how you interpret the instruction.
Please remember only 1 photo per person (to try and get people to think more about the instruction) and tag it SPN-7, entries must be taken between now and midnight this coming Sunday (24th June)
Next Monday the winner of week 6 will choose 5 of their fav's so we can have a vote.
Also, remember that one of the rules was no camera phone shots
You can follow @spn_challenge so the weekly instructions show in your news feed
PS Please remember it is not me coming up with the actual brief, they were already set in the original Street Photography Now challenge
Also feel free to express any opinion you wish in this thread :P
@38mm I didn't get that close! I'm quite fond of them, but I kept my distance! No selfie, its street photos only, but then I suppose you'd get around that one too ; )
@lorraineb I think one of the weeks challenges is a street selfie, or maybe that is a Eric Kim street photography challenge thing. I will need to check
@38mm Wow, bummer. I would love to enter this as my first challenge, but ALL of my photos on this site are taken with my iPhone 4S - that is part of my deal. Guess I'll have to opt out then. Not sure why the discrimination - my iPhone 4S does some things better than my DSLR, and it's way easier to take everywhere with me and capture the moments. (Plus it looks like a Leica in its Gizmon case!)
@38mm Competitions have rules, but rules generally have sensible reasons - like exclusion from certain countries because legalities prevent prizes from being awarded, etc. I agree with @andycoleborn that as the phone cameras have improved in quality, we are seeing a lot more amazing results in street photography from them.
@susanrm Right I am a believer in photography and using camera's, not a device which has had a extra function bolted onto it.
I cannot respect people who walk around pretending to be texting or making calls in order to take a candid of someone, that does not / will never make you a street photographer. If you ain't got the balls to stand in front of someone and take a photo then stay at home.
Interesting to know where you are seeing all these amazing results taken with a camera phone, they are certainly not on the street photography sites and flickr groups I use. In fact you would get a lot harsher reply than I am giving.
If the camera phones pictures are so amazing why are the vast majority you ever see always taken with some kind of app trying to give that vintage film look? Why not by a film camera and get the real thing, I will take the results of my 45 year old fujica over anything a phone and app can produce.
@38mm You are very hostile to the whole idea of camera phones. I wonder why. They are hardly "bolted on," but are integral parts of the better devices. I've been using smartphones since the Visorphone, the very first Palm-integrated phone, and cameras have long been an important part.
By the way, I am not "pretending" to do anything while taking photos - in fact, my phone is convincingly disguised as a Leica camera, so people are more likely to assume I'm taking photos all the time. I am often asked about my "cool camera," and people are shocked to find out that it's an iPhone. It's true that I don't obviously take these particular photos, but you can buy a lens mirror that hides the fact you are taking photos of people too, so... do you eliminate those too?
And regarding processing, I see a lot of processing on a lot of photos all the time. I have some unprocessed photos that I really like too, but the photography apps make it possible to produce effects on the iPhone that would take a long time in Photoshop. It's also easy to take wonderful HDR photos. But given that, do you object to Picmonkey-edited photos too? That's pretty much the same idea as these apps.
I was walking down our street with my husband (we live down a long cul-du-sac, and at the end of it runs the Milwaukee River).
Then my husband said there is a sheep on our block.
I asked him, "are you SURE"??
He said, wait, it's NOT a sheep!!! He was right!
A Pig that lives on our street - BAD!
He's behind bars - Whew - that's GOOD
UGLY??? - You figure out that part!
I don't know if this counts for street photography but we saw him walking down our street!
@lorraineb@38mm Hey guys, did I miss the vote for this?
I didn't get a shot for week 7 (worked from home due to power problems at the office) but I couldn't find the thread to vote.
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I cannot respect people who walk around pretending to be texting or making calls in order to take a candid of someone, that does not / will never make you a street photographer. If you ain't got the balls to stand in front of someone and take a photo then stay at home.
Interesting to know where you are seeing all these amazing results taken with a camera phone, they are certainly not on the street photography sites and flickr groups I use. In fact you would get a lot harsher reply than I am giving.
If the camera phones pictures are so amazing why are the vast majority you ever see always taken with some kind of app trying to give that vintage film look? Why not by a film camera and get the real thing, I will take the results of my 45 year old fujica over anything a phone and app can produce.
I have seen a great many wonderful phone street photos on Flickr myself, including a 100 Strangers project shot exclusively on iPhone that is absolutely stunning. It's the skill and photographer, not the tool, IMO. Here is an example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ljdavisdesignllc/sets/72157627731280600/with/6096884591/
By the way, I am not "pretending" to do anything while taking photos - in fact, my phone is convincingly disguised as a Leica camera, so people are more likely to assume I'm taking photos all the time. I am often asked about my "cool camera," and people are shocked to find out that it's an iPhone. It's true that I don't obviously take these particular photos, but you can buy a lens mirror that hides the fact you are taking photos of people too, so... do you eliminate those too?
And regarding processing, I see a lot of processing on a lot of photos all the time. I have some unprocessed photos that I really like too, but the photography apps make it possible to produce effects on the iPhone that would take a long time in Photoshop. It's also easy to take wonderful HDR photos. But given that, do you object to Picmonkey-edited photos too? That's pretty much the same idea as these apps.
Then my husband said there is a sheep on our block.
I asked him, "are you SURE"??
He said, wait, it's NOT a sheep!!! He was right!
A Pig that lives on our street - BAD!
He's behind bars - Whew - that's GOOD
UGLY??? - You figure out that part!
I don't know if this counts for street photography but we saw him walking down our street!
I didn't get a shot for week 7 (worked from home due to power problems at the office) but I couldn't find the thread to vote.