I try REAL street photography with the Ricoh GR III 

The beauty of street photography is that anyone can do it. The reality is very few can do it masterfully. Takes decades, but we all have to start somewhere.

I love this kind of video more than gear reviews. You’re great at telling stories and sharing your love for photography.

Love the shot with the 3 construction workers. Thx for reminder to "keep going..."

Vivian's photographs were of her fascinations. She just knew that if she was drawn to it that she would want to see it again some time. Now.... millions of us are seeing it all again. Thank you Vivian.

Vivian Maier's photographs are like frames of a movie (story). Don't quite understand why some critics say they are nothing special.

Thanks for the video, Omar. I loved the "Look out for bikes" photo and the one of the lady reading the newspaper.

That was very nice . Especially the idea of combining the walk with a museum visit and the pictures of Vivian Maier. Very good and inspiring

Thanks for taking us along on your adventure!! Have a rockin' weekend Omar...

oh man Omar some your "nope" shots are awesome

Just came back from Lisbon (1 week) Porto (1 week) Paris (2 weeks) Carrying My camera the entire time from morning to past midnight every day...... I went very stealth Nikon Z7 n 24-200mm .... :) :) :)

Thank you Omar, you make me smile and put things in perspective

Love this video, Omar!! Didn’t expect it!! Cheers

Thanks for another inspiring video and taking us to the museum and showing a little of Vivien‘s art.

The people/no people thing is a limitation that you put on yourself. My favorite image on this video comes at 4:45 the red solo cup framed by the red wall. Good eye to see it from your adult level eyes and to lower the camera to ground level. Also, that (kind of) shot is why I could never have a mono-only camera... it had to be in color.

I don't own the Ricoh anymore... had a torrid affair with it for 12 years and 4 iterations later, I can no longer bond with it, but you got me on the Vivian Maier exhibition. I am part of the Womens Street Photographer group on Instagram and there was a live video of a visit to the museum. WISH I could have been there... anyway, this street photographer loves this video, thank you Omar!

Love this story, Omar. And that exhibition . . .

Love this.. Beautiful images, and I totally agre that you sometimes ned that time to get som inspiration from time to time

I like the videos where you are out Omar! This was very nice! 👍

Really great Video, Omar! I enjoyed it a lot. Came here for the Zf, stayed for the photography.

Thank you for letting us see you work.

Great eye Omar…Thanks for the inspiration…👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I always have my Ricoh GR3 on me, a true camera companion for street and travel. You never know what is around the next corner.

Street photography is intimidating and hard. I made rules for myself of subjects and situations I would not shoot, just to keep me honest and on task.

There are some pretty good shots you got there. Most cameras are more than capable for street photography. As a user of an older Fuji XE2 with the classic 18mm, the main challenge is catching the right moment and having an inspired eye 🤗

nice to see you branching out into something I'm trying to learn as well! Just got an xpro3 for street in london lol

1.47 - "it's been about 45 minutes to an hour" I was expecting you to say you were on your third battery 😂

Hello Omar, Enchanting video. I work away from home and your channel feels like a chat with a friend. Thank you.

Food for thought, I'll be in nyc for a week early September. I was planning on going to see the VM exhibition at some point. It will now be first on my list.

Thank you Omar! I really enjoyed your street photography. I’m a beginner at it and I understand that perseverance is the key. One doesn’t get the same amount of keepers as the other genres but it is rewarding nevertheless.

Wonderful ! Love from South Africa.

@ogonzilla , your video’s are the perfect example of good storietelling. Perhaps it was not as a stills, but I paused to enjoy it just as much.

Some of the shots are great! I think it's good that you put some effort in to finding moments/stories - there are a few other youtube photographers who do 'street photography' a lot that just seem to take random snapshots with nothing very interesting about them

Great video - I think you got some keepers. I took a fantastic street photography course with Jack Simon and his son here in San Francisco several years ago. I learned a lot but as you said, you have to just get out there often to practice.

I think you got some great shots!

Back then, people weren't so badly offended by someone taking a picture of them on the street.

Yep, the wise one nails it again. Just get out there and do it, man! 🖖

Cheers Omar. Unfortunately in the digital age we are saturated with “street” that look all the same. Same photos just different places and different faces.

I think the key with Vivian Meir and Martin Parr is to enjoying taking photos and look for inspiration. Not force yourself to a specific genre. Street photography was not a phrase when they were shooting. What interests you..? Shoot it. Don’t think. Don’t pigeon hole yourself.

I feel your unease when you first hit the street. I have a trick to get past my initial nervousness when l first step out for a shooting session. I seek out someone who looks like they might be receptive to my approach and go up to them and ask for a photo. I take the time to chat with them for a while, snapping away at the same time. This serves two purposes: I get in the groove for the session (warmed up) and I am assured of coming back with at least a few worthwhile images (I have an ongoing side project of collecting environmental portraits). Once I get the juices going, I can carry on shooting candids or whatever crosses my path. (PS: I like your videos).

Thanks for this nonetheless encouraging clip which reminds us wannabe street phototographers on the fact that unstaged photography of live scenes is unprovocable (if that's a valid word). It needs patience and alertness at the same time within a lot of time, which makes it hard. It's the about one per mill of "keepers" which keeps us going. Personally I like your not-so-serious comparison between your and Vivian's photos, which tells a story of its own. Have a nice weekend!

Cool video bro! I like what you had to say at the end of the video. The reality is that street photography these days is whatever you want it to be since we are no longer in that age of innocence where you could put the camera to someone’s face and take a picture.

Fun video to watch ❤ i really liked a lot of your photos. Which picture profile did you use, was ist sooc? Thanks for your work

..... Vivian Maher shots brilliant...Rome not built in day. Keep going

I took my most candid and some of my most favourite street photos when I had the GR3. Sometimes, I regret not keeping it, but we all move on in time!

Or just wait 50 years and suddenly all of the nope photos will be good because they'll be nostalgic and people will be amazed at the cars people drove.

The babies in the stroller at 4:13! 🤩

Nice video, it’s hard to get an interesting street photography shot, you need to grind everyday until you get lucky. You got nice photos

very nice

I feel like when Ricoh drops the GR IV it's going to set the entire world ablaze! (2034 is gonna be lit! 😆)

Great vid, got a meta question for you though: How did you record this vlog? Did you do it with your new osmo?

That spot at two min 49 sec had great light. Just needed an interesting subject! I always try to find a good composition and try to make it better with people and not the other way around. Sometimes it works.

Shooting the "moments" in street photography is hard and being 1-2 (or 30 😅) seconds too late for the decisive moment can be frustrating. But imho that type of street ph. has most of the good/worthy shots. Keep trying Omar!

Great post! I am wondering what you think about the next version, a GR iv, and when that would release. I am so keen to get a GR, but not sure wheather to buy a GR iii now or wait without knowing when a GR iv will be available. After all it is soon 6 years old, which is a long time and indeed shows how much of a success this camera has been. Still selling well and very popular. But with the latest "update" of HDF, it seems it could be a way for Ricoh to 'buy time' for the next major update, as the X100VI has ibis and 40 mp, which is great, and might have paused Ricoh from updating and planning carefully next step. Or will Ricoh wait several more years before a major update. What's your opinion about this? Thank you. Great channel.

I think that You got some interesting Pix..... There is an element of luck as well as shoot everything You see and more than one shot You never know (sometimes work the scene)... It takes cojones n perseverance !!!! :) :) :)

Amazing concept!!! Appreciate your courage! :D

You have some nice one ! 👏

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Good video Omar. Sometimes it seems that I fail if I dont get several great shots every time I go out. But how many great shots would be considered a successful year. 50? 100? 500? In one of his videos, Sean Tucker ( an excellent street photographer) said 5 would be a good year, although his standards a pretty high

Hi nice video can I ask you if the focusing is fast or if it's like that of the Fuji XT30II?

Getting into their personal space is tough. Not for them but for you, as the photographer. Eight foot maximum rule.

Omar, por favor, no te acerques tanto a las fotografías del museo. Has estado a punto de tocarlas 😅 Tus fotos, como siempre, estupendas. Un saludo.

Am a Over the road Truck driver and planning on buying xt5 or xt50 any advice on lenses? I love taking pics of my wife and surrounding because am always traveling

The Oculus = the photographer's playground (Phil Penman)

I totally recommend you take a good look to Arien Chang work for amazing street and documentary photography,leyend 💪🏾

Fun video Omar ! May I ask - how is the LCD of the GRIII on a bright sunny day like that? Is it still clearly visible ?

I believe digital crushed street photography. Digital facilitates spray and shoot images hoping for the best. I did it too and if I look at the results they were quite underwhelming. I started street photography around 1982 the result was about 10 images per year with maybe a 2% success rate. Digital came along which enabled unlimited images filling the memory card with 0.001% success rate. Now I take a low budget camera, leave my watch, smart phone and expectations at at home. My limit is 36 images per street walk enjoying the tranquility of my own company accepting that my success rate is still under 1%.

People are always interested in the gear. I've done street photography for years now. I think my best shots on the street where people are the focus were made with my iPhones and my Ricoh GR II and III. Stealth is paramount for this kind of work. That alone makes the iPhone el supremo because it is ubiquitous. The Ricohs are also stealthy. I don't find shooting eye-level a good approach on the street.

Good street photography is very hard to do, perhaps even more so today than ever given people's sensitivity towards having their picture taken. I do wonder however how many of the great street shots were not spontaneous but rather partly or entirely set up. That's not to be taken as disingenuous to the amazing photographers that captured these amazing images, I've no doubt many were real random moments captured by being in the right place at the right time. In any case it's clear that you need to be out shooting day in day out to really produce an interesting body of work which requires determination and dedication. Also being able to disseminate a potential scene is either something for which you have a natural talent for or gain by thousands of hours practice like any skill. Street photography is definitely out of my own personal comfort zone and likely many other photographers feel the same which I'm sure is why it's so difficult to accomplish successfully. 😉

This is (I think) only the second video of yours I have seen, and you've got a bazillion more subs than me, so you can ignore this if you want, but a little piece of advice. Please don't write "nope" and "i suck" on your stuff, even if you're kind of half joking. The thing with our brains is that we tend to believe it when we say such things, even in jest. And then we process it, internalize it, and our whole *everything* absorbs this a bit. Be kind to yourself. Your misses are just shots on the way to your hits. Don't write that any more, okay?

I have a cochlear implant in one ear, and an amplifier in the other. The audio you apologized for is my normal experience.

Didn't Joel Meyerowitz just stand in one place until he was part of it so people stopped noticing him?

first tip... starting your session with a full battery :)

feels like to make 28mm work for this type of photography you need to be a lot closer to the subject. if you’re not willing to actually be in people’s faces then anything wider than a 35mm is gonna make you think you suck

What are you shooting at 1:35, Omar? 😬

2:09 Is this the end of the day? Because if not then you are a risky person. :)

Maybe dont stand outside a school with a camera 😅