Tag: shooting stills

It’s dark. It’s cold. But tricycles and polkadots can warm the
cockles of your heart on a LES streetcorner.

Just a whisper of detail can make soup snap worthy. Sour cream rolled in crushed walnuts bedded on a leaf of arugula – a garnish for the eyes and for the tongue, krumping like a mug in the kitchen.

Official: If Senzo Tanaka is his shidoshi, then show us the Dim Mak.
Ray Jackson: What the hell is a Dim Mack?
Official: Death touch.

–Bloodsport

Me and Jordan hit the pavement this morning and brought home some images. The school stuff was pretty fun to shoot. I’ve seen that wall many times and thought about photographing it — each time armed with a lame excuse why I couldn’t that day. It’s ten times better-looking with kids playing handball, though, so we even had luck on our side. We shot for about 15 minutes. Towards the end some of the kids realized we were shooting and stepped up their game a little bit. A couple others couldn’t stop looking back (or pretending not to) after every point. Cameras.

After snip-snapping this pic, we circled the car around to try and get an even better shot. The guy was not amused, but I think street photography is always a bit more fun when it feels risky. People have their game faces on.

Portraiture and intimate stuff is great too, but there’s a different kind of urgency with the shutter release with street stuff. I can only imagine what paparazzi must feel like. Not good most of the time, I presume. Until that tabloid cover shot, that is. Your boy knows all about both sides of that urgency.