一个街头摄影家的十条建议(转) Here are a few things you can do to prepare yourself for a bucolic life as a street photographer:
1. Walk around a city street aimlessly, pointing at people 3-4 feet away and making clicking sounds. They may look at you funny or say "why are you pointing at me?" or make rude remarks. Smile back, look over their shoulder, as if you were pointing at something else, or just ignore them. When this seems so natural you don't notice it any more and you're not aware of their reactions, you are ready to replace that pointing finger with a camera.
2. Go to the bank. Withdraw $50. In singles. Walk down a street and toss the money away, one dollar at a time. When this doesn't bother you, you are ready buy, use and process large quantities of film.
3. Stand on a sidewalk during lunch hour, smiling at everyone but watching them very closely. When this doesn't bother you, you are ready to spend your lunch hours taking pictures (after all, lunch hour is when the most sidewalk action is happening).
4. Quit your job in the suburbs and get one downtown. After all, who takes good street photos in suburbia?
5. Cut out a picture of a Leica M-series camera. Put it someplace obvious. Drool at it daily for a few months. Then get financing and buy one.
6. Take all the food out of your freezer. Replace it with Tri-X or HP-5 Plus. Take out ten rolls a day, and use them all. (Eat the food before it rots.)
7. Write down three practical reasons to be a street photographer. When you don't get past reason #1, give it up and just go shoot. This may not prepare you for anything, but at least it will help you realize that creativity is irrational.
8. Buy The Decisive Moment, by Henri Cartier-Bresson (if you can find it--good luck), The Americans by Robert Frank, Figments from the Real World by Garry Winogrand and Personal Exposures by Elliott Erwitt. Look at the photos until the binding breaks. Get 'em re-bound. Keep looking.
9. When asked what you would consider the perfect getaway, say "a week alone in a darkroom" and mean it.
10. Constantly ask yourself, "what the heck would what I'm looking at look like framed, still, two-dimensional, in black and white"? If the search for an answer gets your heart pumping, makes your throat dry and you become kind of gooey inside, it's love. Don't fight it. Take out that Leica M that you're still paying off and start shooting. 一个街头摄影家的十条建议 做为一名街头摄影者,在开始你田园牧歌般的生活之前,有几件事情你可以去准备一下:
两名来自法德的年轻摄影师Lucie和Simon在2010年获得了HSBC摄影奖(HSBC Prix pour la Photographie)。
获奖作品“Scenes of Life”以独特的俯瞰视角来重新刻画日常生活中的场景,给予观者耳目一新的欣喜。
“这都是我们耳熟能详的场景,一次早饭,一个小盹,游泳池中一次畅游,看护间的守候……摄影师让我们从‘天使’的角度俯瞰,重新感受到生活的简单、美好、乐趣、温馨,让人感受到亲人的重要,朋友的可贵,家庭的幸福。”
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