There Is Always Someone Looking Right At You

Along with a wealth of well-written information and history which I <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_photography" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">strongly encourage you to read</a>, here is a snippet of what Wikipedia will feed you if you search on “street photography”: <blockquote> Street photography (also sometimes called candid photography) is photography conducted for art or enquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public spaces. </blockquote> When I am out specifically to do street photography, I find that I take shots in ways that I would never do with, say, landscape or nature photography. In the street, it is quick and unplanned for the most part, with the occasional shot (see above) that is framed after the consent of the subject. In most cases, I am using either my iPhone or my <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Canon-PowerShot-Compact-Digital-Camera/dp/B01N9MCH0E/ref=sr_1_3?ascsubtag=dcw-us-5789733812509078000-20&geniuslink=true&keywords=Canon%2BPowerShot%2BG9%2BX%2BMark%2BII&qid=1692217465&sr=8-3&th=1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Canon Powershot G9 X Mark II</a> to do quick shooting from my waist, over my head, out to the side, or simply at chest level. I take a lot of shots and trash most of them in post-production. This is a fairly simple creative process that works well for me, but there is one thing I have noticed with some frequency. Even though I think I am going unnoticed in the stealth taking of my photographs, there is often someone in the frame who is looking directly at me that I did not see while snapping the shutter. <a href="https://medium.com/illumination/there-is-always-someone-looking-right-at-you-b720636dfb5b">Learn More</a>