Walking

Loy Chuan Photography. 

http://www.loychuan-photography.com/2011/07/street-photography-walking/

After developing my first few images from my first rolls of black and white film, I've noticed that without actually intending to, I've started creating some sort of an on going theme throughout my street photography shoots. Some of my best images from my films which I have chosen to enlarge are of people walking.

 This was the first image I took in this style. I've found the images I've un intentionally captured of walking people so far really successful so I thought I'd do some research into this concept and see if there are any other street photographers out there which capture similar style images. I think now I've picked up on this style I could carry on capturing images in a much similar style, this could even be an ongoing theme in my project which I focus on and produce final prints relating to? 

These are two images which i have enlarged. both images were some of the most successful images on my roll of film. Again these images follow this unintentional theme of people walking. 

So when researching on google I found a street photographer who captures images using a digital camera called Loy-Chuan. This photographer has a whole range of images like the style of my 'walking' street photography.

These three images are what I would say are most similar to that of my own, as I have taken almost all of my 'walking' images from a side of view, focusing on the person more than part of the street may be in the background. 

The next lot of images I've found are slightly different and have a more modern street photography feel to them as they again consist of walking people, taken from a side of view, but the people all seem to be captured walking past advertisements and billboards. The images show that the photograher has really thought about what they intend to have in the background more so than the images above. This is an interesting idea as captures the eara the images have been taken in really well. The particular advertisements can also portray a message.. 

The images which has the billboard in focus and the person actually blurred creates an interesting look and atmosphere to the image. Trying this myself would be a great opportunity to experiment with slower shutter speeds.

I think it'd create a really interesting image by finding an advert or billboard with quite a stronger or particular message, then capturing a certain character walking past the billboard which would create some sort or irony to the situation? 

I've spotted a few billboards in Hartlepool so I can't wait to carry on this 'walking' street photography theme and give this idea inspired by Loy-Chuan a go.