From the course: Photo Critique of the Week

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Street portraits

Street portraits

- [Steve] In your chance encounters with strangers on the street and your camera, there's not a lot of time to react. Hi, I'm Steve Simon, and welcome to a brand new edition of Photo Critique of the Week. And this week, I'm just going to show you a couple of portraits, street portraits, if you will, that I took in Chicago where the light was really nice and the subjects were, I thought, very beautiful to be able to photograph. So, you know, again, when I go up to a stranger on the streets, I usually have something I'm going to ask them, but it's not, can I take your picture? Because that's too easy, a yes/no answer. I'm going to see if they would talk with me a sec, and then I have my elevator pitch, hi, I'm a street photographer, I'm doing this stuff, the light is beautiful, I love your hair, whatever it is, to get them to agree. And I will offer them photos, if they want they can email me and I'm happy to send it to them. And for the most part, I have a success ratio upwards of…

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