Exercise Your Eye to See Photos No One Else Can 

Lets get you back to bed, grandpa.

@@skoidat Spoken like a little boy !

@@ramadaxl okay, grandpa. Make sure you take your pills with water.

​@@skoidatexcuse me, could I ask why you said that? did he say it wrong or something?

@@Wanggg-3 Hallucination also means seeing what others do not. No offense to anybody.

Awesome work, Bruce! It reminds me of Steve McCurry's color choice.

My pleasure Bruce. It's great photography which really appeals to me.

I was really impressed! Beautiful "available light" and a great sense for composition. And: liminal spaces. Looking forward to more of your work.

@@ThePhotographicEye The reflections in downtown areas are really neat during rain, and one can duck under the awnings and entryway roofs to keep one's camera lens from getting water drops on it.

I also do the same, when I’m taking a taxi, or I go out and my dad drives, my vision naturally goes outside the window, observing what could be a potential photograph, unfortunately, I can just stop and take them because I don’t drive. “One day” I keep saying…

I assumed this is normal lol

Yep, I lived in Edinburgh right next to the castle for years. Barely noticed it after a few months

Thanks for watching. Really appreciate it

Thank you so much! I really appreciate you saying that :D

Youve got 2 round eyes with, cameras have 1 sensor with a flatter lens

My pleasure Victor

lol, that's the way my hair parts naturally (center). Thanks for watching

Much appreciated!

Maxism - awesome! I've got a few somewhere

Thanks Eric

Those are lovely! Thanks for the suggestion

My thinking is to see the potential in a scene and explore it for compositions - maybe take a few test shots. That way I'm prepared when something does happen.

I do a lot of bird photography and birds can move very fast. I look for that movement and try to anticipate those movements. A high shutter speed freezes that action. Street photography is all about securing that historical moment of time and action.

Practice, practice, practice.. and patience

Joel Meyerowtiz talks about standing still and letting the scene ebb and flow around you till you get a feel for the patterns

Look at the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. His process is in two phases. First he finds a composition, like urban landscape, and both in selection of the view as well as in choosing the viewpoint and frame, he seems to have some empty space in there at moments no humans or animals are in the frame. Now the second phase is to wait for the decisive moment when an animate object passing by fills the void in a pleasing way. The camera/lens probably already focused at that point. Also - viewpoint and perspective - the camera/lens's angle to the frame is chosen in a way that the animate object will be depicted in the right - his preferred - proportions. What he can see at the moment of framing is phase one, what he has to imagine is how phase two lifts the image to levels higher. Look at the work of Fan Ho and his beautiful use of chiaroscuro. You can walk those streets and shoot those people, but need to imagine what it will look like when the sun is at an angle that casts a desirable shade over the subject. And you may need imagination in post when you have to decide to make the shadows lighter or darker. If you are a landscape photographer, you may be in a rugged terrain and now see a solitary tree that could be the main actor in your images. In your brain, in your thinking, regard the tree in a 3D way and rotate yourself around it so you imagine how its features come out in the photo and how the tree gets a place in the composition with the background. Compare it to playing sports where you need to run to a new position in order to prevent a score against you and at the same time decide where the ball/shuttle/thing should go in an attempt to score your point. Extrapolating and predicting speed, direction and a field of players is what you would do in sports, all the time. To become great at sports, people go through years of training, coaching, personal training and coaching, matches, promotions and degradations, and so on. For a master sportsman add those hours up and you'll easily get into the 10000 ballpark. The sportsperson, over time, with training, can deal with increasing speeds and complexities. They put the hours in to train their brain. The biggest challenge in becoming excellent at something is your "self". And maybe a few "loved" ones. For "street" photography, to train the brain, you may need only 10,000 images, not hours. It doesn't work to set the camera to continuos repeat and wait until you added 10,000 shutter clicks. You "have to" imagine first, point, shoot, and evaluate. At a minute each, 10,000 shots become 10,000 minutes and that's 166 hours. So you can easily do this in one year. In the process you will learn how 3D worlds will look in 2D pictures.

Thanks for the suggestions

Very true!

"not this league" is a sad thing to say. If you look at Todd Hido's pictures, they may be considered "amateurish snaps", because of rain, fogged up car windows etc. the focus seems all over the place. Don't show them to your family because they won't get it. That sort of stuff. Yet, we photographically inclined people, we can connect with his vision, at least appreciate it even if it's not "our cup of tea". So, do upload some images and don't be apologetic!

@tomikoPL thanks for watching. See what @malteplath wrote - upload images, don't worry if you think they're 'not up to snuff'

Glad I could be of help

Thanks for watching. I'll try and make a list of the photographers for you

Fantastic. Thanks.​@@ThePhotographicEye

Yes, music is great for conjouring up mental images

Seen it employed in other channels and figured it was a good thing to have here

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Now you know :D

Actually, you're 100% correct! :D Yes, I have a season pass and often go there with my son.

@@ThePhotographicEye I'm a regular as well

I do that every day. It's frustrating a lot of the time because you're not able to stop and take a picture. Most of the time it's not even possible to always carry the camera wherever you go.

@@Emilaria I try to take my camera with me, and the times that I didn't I missed some great opportunities. One thing I do Is make a mental note and a plan to head back at another time.

Sometimes why can be as smiple as just because you can. Mallory when asked why he wanted to climb Everest - "Because it is there"

I think the photographer's conscience plays a role in that. I know some street photographers (mostly fellow students) that always ask people if they can take their photo, others kind of sneakily take a photo. I tend to mostly just openly take photos and offer to send it to the person if they notice and are interested. If they were upset, I'd offer to delete it, probably. I don't want trouble, but I do want the photo. Besides the photographer's conscience, the subject comes into play if they notice and say something. Also, it may depend on the laws of where the photo is taken. I have wondered how street photographers can make money off of a photo if they don't have a model release, even if it was taken in public.

@@user-hu8jg1lv1d I agree with you.(●'◡'●).Let us have fun doing the art thing.