Street Photography

For my photography unit i was to take 10 images with the theme, Street Photography. we looked at some artists in class, including Dougie wallace, martin parr and Niall McDiarmid. ( i will do separate blog posts on these other artists)

On saturday (23rd of sep) i went to Edinburgh and tried to do some street photography, i wanted to just try and snap photo's as soon as i saw a moment. I used my phone as it was portable and more discrete.

I liked this sign. To me a lot of what catches my eye in a city is graffiti, rubbish and defaced signs. Something about this sign caught my eye. I like that it is a collage probably made my loads of strangers at different times.

This was a sticker on a window and when i kneeled down i could make it look like it was climbing a building.

I liked taking photos of people, just snap photos of passing moments.

Overall I found this pretty fun, but I don't know if it is my favourite of all the photography tasks we have been asked to do. I liked how quick it was, as soon as I saw something I grabbed a photograph and that was great because I has load of images, most crap, that I could sift through and edit, which is my favourite thing to do.

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