Street Shooting from the hip......
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why oh why shoot from the hip?
unless its a look-down viewfinder from a medium format camera
have fun! look through the eyepiece! you will be thanking yourself later on on the laptop. bricklane gets sooo many people photographing it nower days, that they just find it normal. especially around the gentrified bits. no reason I can find!
but if you insist on being James Cagney with a camera (sorry for crappy reference!), then one thing that is incredibly hard is to get the shots straight! prepair for wonky lines and horizons! Also, unless the light situations stay the same (in which case you can pre-meter) then you will probably find it easier keeping the camera on full auto (or just set iso and have everything else auto). And it will be very hard to focus on what you want, so a larger depth of field will be good too. other then that good luck!
unless its a look-down viewfinder from a medium format camera
have fun! look through the eyepiece! you will be thanking yourself later on on the laptop. bricklane gets sooo many people photographing it nower days, that they just find it normal. especially around the gentrified bits. no reason I can find!
but if you insist on being James Cagney with a camera (sorry for crappy reference!), then one thing that is incredibly hard is to get the shots straight! prepair for wonky lines and horizons! Also, unless the light situations stay the same (in which case you can pre-meter) then you will probably find it easier keeping the camera on full auto (or just set iso and have everything else auto). And it will be very hard to focus on what you want, so a larger depth of field will be good too. other then that good luck!
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also, brick lane gets pretty damn crowded on a sunday especially if its a sunny one!
hip shooting will result in the capturing of a lot of bums and zippers
that said, if you have a wide angle lens - USE IT! to your advantage. the effect of a wide-angle lens pointing upwards close to the subject gives some great distortion to faces and stuff. have a look at the works of Alexander Rodchenko:
http://www.danyanovikov.narod.ru/rofo/pioneer.html
http://www.danyanovikov.narod.ru/rofo/trubach.html
-ironically, these were taken with a leica and him lying down beneath the subject! he HATED! look-down viewfinders of medium format cameras and the "belly button" shots they produced!
but anyway, a wide angle lens looking upwards can create some nice artistic/street distortion to peoples faces/bodies/anything else!
as already said, good luck
I might be down their myself actually!
hip shooting will result in the capturing of a lot of bums and zippers
that said, if you have a wide angle lens - USE IT! to your advantage. the effect of a wide-angle lens pointing upwards close to the subject gives some great distortion to faces and stuff. have a look at the works of Alexander Rodchenko:
http://www.danyanovikov.narod.ru/rofo/pioneer.html
http://www.danyanovikov.narod.ru/rofo/trubach.html
-ironically, these were taken with a leica and him lying down beneath the subject! he HATED! look-down viewfinders of medium format cameras and the "belly button" shots they produced!
but anyway, a wide angle lens looking upwards can create some nice artistic/street distortion to peoples faces/bodies/anything else!
as already said, good luck
I might be down their myself actually!
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your welcome!
if I am about, I will have a 40D and/or a Voigtlander Bessa!
look out for a chap with longish hair and a blue lumberjack shirt dunno if I can go though, i am supposed to be getting coursework done
if I am about, I will have a 40D and/or a Voigtlander Bessa!
look out for a chap with longish hair and a blue lumberjack shirt
dunno if I can go though, i am supposed to be getting coursework done
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yep! one of these: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2392/2227129756_bce20a8cff.jpg
a knock-off leica in all honesty the most embarasing thing is that the only strap I had spare was a nikon one
so I am walking round with a great camera, but still hang my head in shame
a knock-off leica in all honesty
the most embarasing thing is that the only strap I had spare was a nikon one so I am walking round with a great camera, but still hang my head in shame
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on a 50d in liveview you can set it to face focus mode, I was playing with this and folding my camera above my head pointing down to get a weird perspective but it didn't work too well as I was having issues getting her in the shot 
(focussing was ok in the shots that worked)
(focussing was ok in the shots that worked)Why do you think you'll need to shoot from the hip? Brick Lane isn't somewhere I'd worry about walking around with a camera......or is it just to catch people off-guard? 
I find I can get pretty decent shots just with the camera slung round my neck, with a remote shutter in my pocket, don't bother most of the time and just point it at people!
I find I can get pretty decent shots just with the camera slung round my neck, with a remote shutter in my pocket, don't bother most of the time and just point it at people!
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There are a number of different ways to calculate each pixel's colour after resizing. Looks like when those shots have been resized, that whatever software you are using has used a quick and dirty algorithm , which is why they are all blocky.
Should be able to change to bicubic or something better, not sure where the setting will be, depends on your software
Should be able to change to bicubic or something better, not sure where the setting will be, depends on your software
I don't use Irfanview, but there should be a 'resample' or something option when you are setting them up to resize.
I believe the options in Irfanview are 'Nearest Neighbour', 'Linear', 'BiLinear', 'Bicubic Smooth', 'Bicubic Fast'. Make sure it's set to BiCubic Smooth.
I believe the options in Irfanview are 'Nearest Neighbour', 'Linear', 'BiLinear', 'Bicubic Smooth', 'Bicubic Fast'. Make sure it's set to BiCubic Smooth.