Downtown Minneapolis

[Damon Lynch]

This is an experimental photograph, because I very rarely shoot straight into the sun. For better photographers than me, I'm 100% sure doing so is old hat. For me perhaps it will be the start of something good. I don't recall my thought process exactly, but maybe I only tried it because I was testing a new lens and body and I wanted to know how they would cope with the flare and metering.

In any case, if you think the photo is utterly uninteresting and completely devoid of any artistic or aesthetic merit, feel free to say so! The photo was not posed; I don't know these people.

[louoates]

I don't get much out of this shot other than noting the sun questions you were answering with your new equipment. Street photography is one of the most difficult to shoot because the people and place interactions are changing rapidly. In my shooting I may get one "keeper" out of days of shooting. And often that shot is one that wasn't planned, but occurred just before or just after the perfect moment I had in mind.
   So I wouldn't bother much with the technical stuff when on the street but spend a lot of time shooting the fast moving life around you, sun angles be damned.

[RSL]

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