Why is it that some guys can define street in every shot they make?
Lovely, Seamus.
Rob
I wish it were so, Rob.
The truth - you can reference Russ on this - is that most street shots are failures, and that goes for the vast majority of my own. I'd go so far as to suggest that most images taken OUTSIDE the controlled environment of a studio, are flops too. And even then, you're in the lap of the Gods.
One thing I've learned over the years is to be careful about what you delete or reject. Sometimes, after a considerable time. it pays to trawl through your stuff and have a second or third look.
A picture taken and rejected a year ago can assume magical properties twelve months or more later with the benefit of 'historical perspective', for want of a better phrase - not to mention the crop you might have hastily and unwisely applied in the first place.
Pressing the RESET button can often open a whole new perspective. It means you get rid of the immediate emotional attachment to a picture and see it objectively for what it really really is.
When in doubt, press the RESET button and start from scratch.
Of course, in this age of instant communication, that's a hard act to sell.
But I wouldn't recommend it as a way to make a living and raise a family!
And now I'm embarrassed - preaching like a prig to somebody of such enormous repute such as yourself.
