Recent content by benc98

The last one is a beauty, it's really great imo - my only critique would be to up the contrast

I just bought a second hand Herman Miller - there's a few website/companies that sell second hand office furniture. I've messed about for too long with a load of cheap chairs that fall apart, seeing as I'm using it hours a day it was time to invest in something decent

In street photography there is a rich history of examples where the photographer puts themselves in the photo, I've never understood the complaints about photographer reflections.. dare I say it, it's the sort of thing you hear in a camera club ;)

I bought this book last year to help with my studies - Reading Photographs: An Introduction to the Theory and Meaning of Images (Basics Creative Photography) - you might be able to get it on the cheap if you look at world of books. It'll help with decoding images, semiotics, looks at ideas...

What if lots of people tell you it’s good? Or a publisher wants to make a book of your work? A gallery exhibit..? A critic writes an essay about your picture? I think for those reasons some objectivity exists and it’s not all subjective, I’ve no idea where the balance is. I’ve never really...

It’s a really good topic. In photography / art there’s tons of ideas / concepts / theories / history / approaches. I think successful photographs incorporate some of these ‘things’. What helped me was looking at photobooks and learning about other photographers. Similar to eating McDonald’s...

It's not mutually exclusive to be close and capture candid moments, in fact it's much easier to get those moments when you're much closer.. The choice of a telephoto lens if often down to the fear of the photographer and everything else is an excuse for that.

I just had a quick flick through all the pages in this thread and it's interesting given the recent discussion that most of the links are to YouTube Where else are people getting inspiration? Does subject matter inspire you? Books? Fiction? Art? Cinema? TV? Poetry?.. It's a bit boring perhaps...

There are some good YouTubers out there, but they're very rare, and don't get the exposure of their clickbaity colleagues. Otherwise, it's just one big echo chamber.. who the hell it watching these videos? basically I think there's a market for people who like to hear/watch hot takes rather...

Where's everyone (ok a few of you ;) ) getting this idea that people who make candid photos in the public place are getting 'lammped' and caught up in confrontation left, right and centre each time they go out. Just smile, be a people person and chat :)

Maybe not be make subjects look 'better' but if you wanted to do a series to show people or record what the winter/spring of 2024 was really like? show the effects of climate change in your local area (of effects of bad weather if you don't believe that stuff) I was reading a bit of text about...

Depressing. But, there is tons of scope to do something with it if there is enthusiasm for it

I do a fair bit of street photography, so obviously enjoy taking candid photos.. some of these are of children and I publish them.. usually on social media.. I don't ask adults for permission to publish, so I'm not going to ask children. I mean, the internet isn't going to explode with pedos if...

First a Nikon 5100 and latest Mamiya C330

Love photographing in museums and galleries - was challenged once in the British Museum, but he just wanted to know what I was up to and was fine with. I'm less interested in photographing the collections, rather the people in the museums. There's always security around, they will soon approach...