A short video of my photographic journey and to what led me to becoming a street photographer. Thanks to all my subscribers for your support and I look forward to creating more videos.
My dad was also a hobbyist photographer, using what he could afford after living through the great depression. I was born in the '50s and resisted the efforts of my father to push me into photography... it was the norm to be contrarian to the older generations in the '60s. I joined the military and started to see the world which made it clear that I should document these places. Suddenly photography was cool to me. Then I started remembering all the little lessons that my dad tried to instill in me. How stupid I felt. I had the perfect teacher, and blew him off. Fortunately I dove in head first and learned photography through books and classes. I also was able to share my passion with my dad while home on leave. I was shooting Nikon, so I bought my dad a Nikon and we were able to bond in the years before he passed. I'm a photographer because of my Father.
Fantastic video Jason and an awesome story. I’ve been taking photos since I was 6 or 7 and I’m now 48. Always been a hobby but I too have just started to dip into Street Photography in order to give my photography a purpose. I reached the same conclusion as you, it’s accessible with the gear I have, it can be done anywhere and at any time with endless possibilities. I too feel excited by the prospect of a body of work that in the future will show how things are in the 2020s. You’ve got a real talent and I wish you every success with your Street Photography career. 👍👍
Outstanding video! I love your photos! I’m 65 and my dad loved taking pictures from back in the late ‘40’s when he was in the Army. He gave me my first camera, a Brownie Reflex and I still own it today. I let life and my career get in the way of my passion for taking photos. I love shooting anything abandoned, urban and street, and since my dad was a fire fighter I got into fire photography. Now that I’m retired I’m jumping back in. I hope I can shoot something meaningful and enjoy this as much as I did when I was younger. You are very talented. Keep shooting, and please keep sharing your videos. Thank you!
Thank you so much! Get out there and shoot and shoot what makes you happy and it will be meaningful. I also love shooting abandoned places, not sure if you seen them, but I have a couple videos featuring abandoned buildings. I appreciate you watching and commenting.
Absolutely love it. So much of your story chimes with me. I started young also, did photography in school, shot things in my surroundings using the same camera and lens for a decade without even thinking about gear. Was too poor to get my film developed and so my development was slooooooow. I didn't even know there was a genre called street photography until I saw a documentary on the BBC that featured William Klein, in about 2011. That was it for me! I've been hooked ever since. Thank you for this upload, it reminds me of why I'm a street photographer. Keep on keeping on! Subbed!
Bravo, Jason. I fell in love with photography from looking at photos in magazines like Look and Life back in the early Fifties. I got my first camera, a Kodak Brownie, at about age 11 and have loved photography ever since. Your photos are excellent and compare well with one of my favorite street photographers, Fred Herzog, who shoots color.😃
I grew up loving photography so much but I ended up being an automotive technician instead. I started in photography at a very young age like yourself, I was in 6th or 7th grade when I was given my first SLR. I spent a lot of my time in the late 90’s learning to develop, understanding exposure, and even shooting weddings. I worked as a photographer for my school newspaper and yearbook, and even took a journalism class at Bowling Green as a freshman in Highschool. I really wanted to go to Rochester, New York to study after my mother took me to see George Eastman’s home, but when I started to get less than ideal grades in school, I thought that I wouldn’t be able to go to college to be a photographer for a living. I also struggled in my mind when digital started to gain tons of traction. I felt like everything I learned had died, and that technology had taken the skill out of photography. I just recently stepped back into photography and it feels like im a kid again, seeing things with that photographic eye I developed at a young age. I stumbled upon your videos and it has given me some inspiration to go shoot Columbus again. Sorry if I was rambling.
Just found your channel. I like you, your story and video. I like the photography you like and I shoot people on the street always attempting to capture the poetics of being a person. I shoot only black and white. I like your images. Thanks for doing what you do the way you do it.
awesome video Jason. Personally my old dad got me into photography as a kid, I never looked back love everything about it. I shoot for a daily newspaper incredibly varied work, I shot weddings, portraits events etc etc, I shoot landscapes and sports love them all to bits, but the one genre that keeps me buzzing is street photography it's a challenge a fear a buzz, a pleasure and a pain at times above all it's fun. The landscapes I've shot make me happy for a while but I look back and the pictures I've shot of people are so much more Important. People change far faster than mountains and lakes. Enjoyed your thoughts mate.
Thank you so much for watching. And you’re absolutely right. I look back at photos I’ve taken years ago on the street and I still feel something. Still remember those moments.
@@JLStreetDoc after watching your vid and commenting I sat back and watched a few of my street vids I definitely get a better feeling from Them than my landscape stuff it’s the ever changing fashions styles expressions urban landscapes they change so fast a shot taken today will have far more significance in 5 years and more they just age we’ll love them.
