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Friday night Street Specials v7.3
A weekly selection amongst the images that were suggested as DDs
or simply impressed me and I think they deserve more attention.
Enjoy them, comment on them and remember to visit the photographers' galleries as well.
If you like what you see, this article
so it can reach as many deviants as possible.

Have a nice weekend!

SINE QUA NONSTREET PHOTOGRAPHY HEAVEN
*SUDOR :iconsudor:, a dA street legend. If you haven't seen his images before, prepare to develop the dreaded favitis severus, a nasty and dangerous disease indeed!

If I one day am half the shooter he is I will be happy!
/Pelle!
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Street contest - THE WINNERSIt is our great pleasure to announce the WINNERS of
the first Official deviantArt "So you think you can street" Photography Spring Contest
which was held from May 1st till June 15th in deviantArt site.
After 15 days of hard negotiations, `cweeks, *myraincheck and `StamatisGR
decided and happily announce:
1st Winner

by :iconarslanalp:
1 year premium subscription + 3200 points*
A competition between a peacock displaying its beautiful feathers and a gorgeous girl posing for the cameras. In its simplicity and elegant framing the image holds the imagery of beauty and vanity. The white feathers/white dress and the similar pose of girl and peacock are nice additions to the impact of the image.
2nd Winner

by :iconhbapt:
6 months premium subscription + 2400 points*
A classy street photo where an ever

Sebastião Salgado, a living legendAs any boy, I grew up absorving the World. And the World mesmerized me everytime my late dad would bring some journals or magazines where Sebastião Salgado's photos were featured.
I can´t hide the admiration I have for this photographer, this man that is still alive and living in Paris, and the way he changed my way of seeing the World, respecting my fellow man, seeing the light where only darkness seems to exist.
Sebastião Salgado was born on February 8th, 1944 in Aimorés, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Began his career as a professional photographer in 1973 in Paris, working with the photo agencies Sygma, Gamma, and Magnum Photos until 1994, when he and Lélia Wanick Salgado formed Amazonas images, an agency created exclusively for his work.
He is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, and an honorary member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States.
Uses Leica, most of the time he uses 28mm, 35mm and 60mm lenses (one for each camera body). He use

Street Photography DDs - July 2012About the Street Gallery, Street DDs etc.

If you want your suggestion to have
more chances to get featured have a close look here:
http://stamatisgr.deviantart.com/journal/About-the-Street-Gallery-Street-DDs-etc-269802095
FAQ #61: What is a Daily Deviation?
FAQ #18: Who selects the Daily Deviation and how is it chosen?
FAQ #873:

Street Photography DDs - April 2012About the Street Gallery, Street DDs etc.

By ~kuvars

By ~cinqth

Street Photography DDs - June 2012About the Street Gallery, Street DDs etc.

If you want your suggestion to have
more chances to get featured have a close look here:
http://stamatisgr.deviantart.com/journal/About-the-Street-G

PE: dA Street shooters share their tips1. What is the gear that deviant Street Photographers use?
2. What is the dream gear that they'd wish to have?
3. What is the best advice they could give to an inexperienced street shooter?
The answers are right below!
in the order they came into my inbox
*NunoCanha says:

1: 50/50 Nikon D90 / Sony Nex
2: Leica M9P + 35mm
3: Shoot. A lot. Be inside the action, to feel what´s going on with small focal lenght, or step back to realize a worthy context, but never be afraid to press the shutter. Never. You´re doing nothing wrong.
~kingmouf says:

1. I have a 5DmkII and an EOS300 (film). Both share the same 35mm f/2 lens. I use them almost equally.
2. I think the best camera is the one in your hand. I know it is a cliche but then again the problem most if the times is not at the camera but at the photographer.
(now... for some inexplicable reason there came a guy and told me, "Just order wh

Decisive Moment vs Moment to DecideHenri Cartier-Bresson defines "The Decisive Moment" as follows:
"There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever."
However, Henri Cartier-Bresson didn't only take one single photograph when he saw a decisive moment ready to happen (David Hurn refers to this as a "pregnant moment") but rather took several images of the same scene.
That truth is reinforced by the fact that "Gare" is one of only two photographs I know of that Cartier-Bresson cropped. There was a fence off to the left, and he didn't have time to move to the right before it was time to shoot.
You can see the original, un-cropped version in his book, Henri Cartier Bresson: Scrapbook.
If you look carefully at the masters work like Cartier-Bresson, Elliott Erwitt, or

SUPER STREET SHOTS III with DougNZ
Super Street Shots from our members and around dA:
The theme this time is Solitude.

El Balco

Street Colour 15

Ghosts

218

Morning Cleaning

Lost

Great expectations

A cigarette and his thoughts

Un homme, une femme

DIGI FEATURE.
It is again time to feature some images from the Yards Digi Gallery. The images have been selected by Steve ~du-jamais-vu (a mighty fine shooter if you ask me). If you did not know it, Steve, not me, is nowadays the curator (big fancy ridiculous word, but you know what I mean) of the DD36 Gallery http://the-yard-collective.deviantart.com/favourites/43744684

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~cheekymonkeyali has retired as a Yard admin. I and many more will miss him dearly (as an admin, he will still be a member and active on dA). To honor him, and all help he has given The Yard and me personally, a little tributory feature:

and if you had not heard it, our avatar :iconthe-yard-collective: is based on on this image by him!
Again, thank you Ali from

PE: Deviant Street Books-Inspirational linksFirst it was film, darkroom, paper. Then it became pixels, software, screen. And for some paper too.
A big thanks to those who decided to let us enjoy their pictures in paper and get the feel of the real thing.
It needs time, devotion and trust to set a street photo book of your own. Let's see who did it!
`SimonSawSunlight

HAPHAZARD ANTHROPOLOGY - By Simon Becker from 46,74 €
HAPHAZARD ANTHROPOLOGY in short - By Simon Becker from 30,64 €
I finally got around to putting together a new book. And because it turned out kind of big and rather expensive, I thought I'd add a smaller, reduced "pocket" version (64 frames instead of ~100 in the "big" version). They are both a little more sophisticated and imo "richer" than my p

Friday night Reasons to meet (or not) a Streettog
A weekly selection amongst the images that were suggested as DDs
or simply impressed me and I think they deserve more attention.
Enjoy them, comment on them and remember to visit the photographers' galleries as well.
If you like what you see, this article
so it can reach as many deviants as possible.
10 reasons NOT to date a street photographer
by *myraincheck
1. They don't have orgasms. They have 'decisive moments'.
2. If they could save just one thing from a fire they will be wavering between you and their camera. And if the camera in question is a Leica, then you are screwed.
3. You can forget romantic dates in quiet, secluded or isolated places.
4. You are never going to have a family album but tons of albums of photos of perfect strangers. Obviously they won't take a picture of you because 'you are not a stranger'.
5. Even when they SEEM to be taking a picture of you, they are ac

Women
Women - some of my favourite street shots of these mysterious creatures

Quote for today: “Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death."
– Berenice Abbott

Friday night Street Specials v6.2
A weekly selection amongst the images that were suggested as DDs
or simply impressed me and I think they deserve more attention.
Enjoy them, comment on them and remember to visit the photographers' galleries as well.
If you like what you see, this article
so it can reach as many deviants as possible.

Have a nice weekend
and remember
7 days left to get your entry in
"So you think you can Street Contest"

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STREET PHOTOGRAPHY FEATURE

Journal Entry: Mon Jun 25, 2012, 7:20 AM

STREET ON DA

dA, as any community on the internet has its pro's and con's. For me the best part of dA has been The Yard Collective #The-Yard-Collective, a group for street photography aficionados of all skill levels from all corners of the world. For the last year I have had the priviledge of leading this group, but as of today this is no longer the case. Instead *NunoCanha is its new Skipper.

Anway, it was a blast and as a tribute to The Yards members as well as to the genre of street photography itself, I below showcase some of my favorite images that belong to the group. (Sorry fellow group admins, only non-admin members only, after all, they are the blood that is being pumped through the groups vains.)