Photography Tips – A different Approach To Urban Photography
This photo was taken at Leeds South Docks, a place that I like to think of as an adventure playground for photographers, it offers opportunity after opportunity.
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This photo was taken at Leeds South Docks, a place that I like to think of as an adventure playground for photographers, it offers opportunity after opportunity.
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Quite often when wandering around looking for photograph opportunities, I’ll spot something that works, and then wait for a pedestrian to create a juxtaposition.
I had been watching this graffiti for sometime waiting for the right moment, many people walked passed, but it wasn’t until this man walked passed that the photo was made when the two figures seem to be making eye contact.
Distorted reality created by water. Water is a fascinating tool to use to make photographs, nothing is ever quite the same it has so many variables.
Water seems to being many of the elements of photography that I like to look out for together. Shapes, Patterns, Reflections and Colour. Although this is a black and white photograph, the amount of colour that can be found in water can be mind-blowing!
You do not have to venture far to find photo opportunities, All three of these photographs were taken witin 300ft of each other in Leeds..
For a photographer, the city is a giant playground, which provides endless fun and opportunities to be had with a camera! And what people often find even more surprising is that you really do not have to venture far to find lots of photo opportunities!
Make a point of taking yourself into your nearest City, where I challenge you to go hunting for colours! It sounds slightly difficult at first, but I am certain that you will be amazed at just how many colours a City has to offer when you go looking specifically. Look for contrasting colours this will not only make your images interesting in colour, but will enhance your photography when it is converted to black and white!
Patterns are absolutely everywhere, you just have to look for them. The easiest way to look for patterns I find, is to disengage your recognition of everything around you and start looking for lines. Lines that travel horizontally, vertically and diagonally. Explore the lines and patterns that the architecture of the City has to offer and study them – where do they lead, where do they cross and do they repeat themselves?
Reflections offer the photographer with so much creativity! Just like patterns and colours, the city is absolutely littered with hundreds of reflections. Every puddle, Every metal surface, every single car (unless the owner is so lazy that they have never cleaned it), every single window window! They all posses reflections!
Buskers are normally totally fine with their photographs being taken, which provides great opportunities to build confidence taking candid photographs in the street.
People in the city are fascinating subjects to take photographs of! Now I know that some people may feel uncomfortable taking photographs of strangers walking around in the streets.
One thing that might help building confidence taking photographs of people in the street is to start by taking photographs of Buskers. Buskers are normally totally fine with their photographs being taken, which provides great opportunities to build confidence taking candid photographs in the street. As a gesture of appreciation for being a good sport, if I take a photograph of a busker I ALWAYS offer them some loose change.
One of the things that I look out for when I am taking candid photography, is interaction! Whether the it be the subject interacting with another person, or even an object, looking for interactions help to build up stories in your photography!