About a month ago I took my camera with me on my work commute to try my hand at street photography. This is another shot from that experiment that I figured it might be fun to wiggle some sliders on. I don't know if I'm perfectly happy with it, but I do like the lines of it, the way that all the perspective lines converge on the place the woman is looking. It's kinda neat. I want to keep trying street photography, I just need to get over how invasive it feels. I don't know if I want to be part of the picture in that way.
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in reply to @molotovmocktail's post:
i feel pretty similar things to this as well. i like having people in my photos at some opportunities but always like - at a distance, in a pretty impersonal way. i think a lot of this comes down to cultural trends having made the normal attitude towards strangers a lot more hostile (though i'm not old enough to have experienced this in any real fashion, but i think people generally say there used to be a lot more trust in public before everything became more "don't talk to strangers, they'll kidnap you"). so i generally avoid taking pictures starring people rather than just featuring them; i figure it's easy to assume malicious intent from weirdoes with cameras and i don't really want to ruin their day or get into a fight. i do also get this from the other perspective in some respects, if somebody wanted to take a photo of me i guess i'd be happy to be a subject in general, but also feel if you put my face on instagram or some shit i am coming to your house and beating you with a stick to some extent.
anyway i probably didn't need to tell you all this haha. for what it's worth i think this is a pretty nice shot, and good luck capturing some public life going forward
I really like that distinction that you made, the difference between pictures starring people and featuring people. I think that's something I've been subconsciously thinking about for a while, and now I wonder if I go out with this in the front of my mind, how that's going to affect how I frame photos.