Today we're taking a look at street photos with my friend James at a local
city market. He was in Thailand for many years, but he came back for a short time.
Thought like a good opportunity so we made it happen. I have a previous video
with all his equipment if you want to check that out in the description, or a
card. "A lot of people do like pet photography." yeah "and I can't wrangle
cats or dogs. I love dogs but I can't... I'm not good at wrangling them." mm-hmm
"Or like babies..." yeah "I don't do.. I don't do like newborn photography." That
would be not too pleasant, I'm sure. Sort of like dogs but worse? "I don't know. I have like an
irrational fear of babies." Oh! There's a little bar with a really nice front
window. It's got those neon lights. James was definitely drawn to that. From
From there, there is a large restaurant brewery that we walk through. And this
really interesting looking gate.
I don't know why it's there, but again, James was drawn
to that. We took a few photos. "But I've got the 30 on and it's just.. I can't." Oh...
your too, too close. "Don't let me go in the water."
"Don't record me going in the water!" "Back up just a little bit... back up a little more..."
"Yeah, a little more?"
Actually, the building itself was
renovated. It's used for the brewery. It's used for the restaurant. For
weddings... It's really beautiful. Nice building just itself. The nice
brick... Yeah, I think this might turn into a random photos everywhere...
We were getting to the
city market just as it was opening up. And a good opportunity just to check
things out. Survey the area, whatever you want to call it. There is a trolley
that goes through there and it's a nice addition to the market itself. Goes from
the Sinnissippi Riverfront Gardens to that area. James started talking to the
staff that runs the trolley. He's getting motivated
to start taking photos, so that was a good opportunity.
"Is it like electric? How does it drive?" "Propane!"
"It's propane..." oh wow "Historically it would have been electric."
So in this case it worked out nicely. Took some photos of them.
No, I make Youtube videos...
"Oh really, that's cool!" yeah
mostly about photography
"Oh really!" "She does too. She does the ahh..."
"I just do birds."
"I've been... Some of the falcons by the Register Star." Okay. Nice!
"I'm a birdwatcher. I don't take pictures of people. Only birds."
I found the food trucks really interesting.
I think James did as well. Some of them are super unique. Like this
one with the flowers. Nice round shape to it. James was able to get a really
interesting candid of one of the food trucks with a tiny window. The person
working with it or owns it... He was popped out just looking around. I think he
noticed us. At the same truck he also got another candid of some of the people
interested in the menu. With the Bell Churros truck he was able to talk to the
staff. Interact with them a little bit and then take their photo. I think that
one turned out really interesting. Also, with the food trucks, a lot of them have
these chalk menu signs. So many different colors. A lot of texture to them. Really
nice fonts and artistic skill put into those menus. With these two people we had
a great chat about photography and also travel.
I think they saw his camera and they went up to him and talked to James and
he eventually took some photos of them as well. Albert's Instagram will be in
the description if you want check his photos out. Really great work. "Yeah, so he
stopped me and he asked what I was shooting on. And I said oh.. this is my
Olympus OM-D E-M5! And he said.. oh.. oh.. I shoot on a Sony!
Okay, so that's a good way to meet people as they
come to you. Yeah, he just stopped me. He just stopped me...
Actually, so I don't really shoot on Sony so it's a good good way to kind of get
reviews from people actually use them. it's practical reviews. Also we met
another photographer talked to him for quite a while about photography gear.
If you wanna check his Instagram out, find him on there. Again, great work as well.
With this picture you can see James really likes interacting with people. I think that's a
great way to go about things. Got the child and the mother running that booth.
Even I managed to be in some of the photos. I really do like this one
specific photo. It worked out nicely. Put it on my Facebook page.
Here we have a candid of a worker in action...
I like how its framed. Just super interesting to see
little bits and pieces of what people are doing. With the theme of candids.. they
see.. Oh, there's a camera. It's pointing in my direction. They give you that look.
Which, if you've done any type of street photos...
You know that look. This one you pull back those layers and you see different
things. Go right to the hands most likely with the main focus, but you look around
you see the different expressions.
Pink hair gets you noticed by photographers.
In this case he got spotted multiple times. Not every photo was taken of a
person. This one of cucumbers. I like the composition of it.
Another friend of ours arrived.
We went to dinner and then afterwards we walked around the city
market again, and of course he couldn't avoid having his photo taken.
James was great on that taking photos of him.
On our way back we went past the
local bar again. In this case he took a few more photos. He was able to actually
pose this person. He was super polite about it.
Behind the scenes it's a pose but...
If you didn't know that you can see... It looks super natural. Something that
you can just think about what's happening. Think about the story behind it.
Thanks to James Dewitz for going on this photo outing with me. Again his
links will be in the description if you want to check out his work. I also
have the other video on his gear. It's really nice to see how he works. See how
he does things with, especially street photos, which isn't a genre that I get
much into. So with that it's also great to have someone with you with that style
photography. Because there's a little more extra motivation involved, and
putting yourself out there when you have a friend with you it works out nicely.
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I'm Scott from Photography Banzai.