Second attempt at street photography

More successful

This time around things were way more successful. Although i did not do as much prints as i would have liked too. Overall from the time i spent in the dark room i got 3 successful pictures that i would say are pretty good.

This is a image that i took from my first shoot. It is a picture of Courtney from my course and some may argue that this does not make it street photography but i would argue that it is because for one she wasn't at all aware i was taking the shot. It is out on the streets, in a public place and it is still a picture of a human. This image was taken on a bench in the street and as far as i am aware there is no rule in street photography saying don't use someone you know even if the shot is candid. I really like the depth of field in this image, how Courtney is really in focus but the buildings are very much blurred. Another thing i like is the high contrast. The blacks are indeed very black and the whites are very white.

This is an image from what i believe is from the third shoot. I just really liked the shot because of the casual look and also how normal it looks too. I also like how there is lots and lots of lines in the shot, if you look past the two men talking you can see there are lines on the scaffolding  lines on the street lights, lines on the benches and lines on the fence/railing next to the road.  I also really like the contrast its much darker than i would ever want it but i like the effect that brings. 

This is my favorate image from all of my shoots. And i have also found a pattern that links with this image and i will be going in this direction as a theme. When i was coming out of Greggs after buying my lunch i saw an old lady sat by herself and i though this looked interesting and really cute so i took a photo not thinking anything of it. Only did i notice through looking at my negatives that i had captured her image at the perfect time 

when nobody was walking past. This made the image look even more lonely. Another connection i made was that the poster in the background although is an image of a modern younger man says 'wish you were here' which you can't see on this image but you can see on the original picture. I thought this was weirdly fitting. The saying 'wish you were here' just made me instantly think of the 1950's 1960's when people were big on postcard sending and the 'wish you were here' is something that was said a lot on post cards and this tied the whole image together for me. 

Soon i hope to develop another two shoots so i can get miles more enlarging done.