Very thought provoking as to where my work fits.

Hi, great stuff! Is the footage at 7:30" near the Shinbashi station? I'm asking because I'm visiting Tokyo in two months (for the first time). You got some stunning photos but in some instances I have the feeling that you're taking a wee more time to compose than it's absolutely necessary, especially with more still subjects. As a result you get noticed and you get those nusty looks. In some cases I noticed that the GR3x is struggling to focus a bit but that might just be my impression. The shot with the backs of white shirts and the sole face in between the curtains is fantastic and you captured the moment just right.

I think I missed this video when it first came out. Great eye for detail. Your shots of Lisbon are stunning! I got to play around over there last year, and it’s always cool to see others takes on the same location.

Documentary street photography is not a problem, bad documentary street photography that is constantly being promoted as being good is the problem.

Been using my 5 M mount lenses with a couple of different Z bodies for a while. I love how the images look and the slowness factor, though I tend to just do street/travel with that setup and zone focus. They are my only primes for Z system. I mostly love how small they are, though. The zooms are a lot larger.

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Very well put together Faizal. Some great examples too. Thank you.

"Silently judging each other"? If only!! 🤣

Photojournalism is the only medium that needs strict rules for hopefully obvious reasons. As long as you’re not lying when asked about editing, using AI generation, and post processing, the rest just doesn’t matter. But we as a society DO need secure sources of unmanipulated or minimally manipulated photo and video documentation. It’s just hyper critical.

When you take these type of pictures do you have to take them all right away? I’m basically wondering if I can take a picture with the dial on multiple exposure and turn off my camera and come back to add the second picture for the jpeg.

Great insight as usual Faisal. It is sad to see AI taking such a huge place in every day life but for street photography i feel that theskill, luck and practice is in the repetition of shooting. Idlove to take a trip to New York for a week or two and shoot more street, your work is very inspiring.

How would you recommend one gets more comfortable with getting shots of people in the frame. I always get nervous

take photos of stuff you like and what catches your eye. don't limit your options. well at least thats what ive learned watch vids and my brief experience of photography.

Your choice of background music was too distracting. I came to view your photographs, not listen to piano music that was way too repeditive.

can you show us some pics UNEDITED?

Ight bro give me your fuji lol

Okay this is crazy, ive been compaining about that worm effect and you just solved this problem for me. but i wonder why the camera embedded the worm effect in the jpg straight from the camera, is there a way to remove that?

Dam this video slaps! ❤

I was lucky enough to score one of these brand new recently , haven't shot with it yet.

This vintage color grade was beautiful. Super 8 vibes 👏🏾👏🏾

Thank u for the great content Photos are amazing

Dude is one of your buddy from RI? Reminds me of a good friend of mine …always wanted to visit Vietnam grew up with friends from Laos Cambodia etc good people

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One piece of advice that I'll always remember is to "Shoot how you feel". For a while I was photographing old buildings and all that other generic stuff because that's what everyone else was shooting. I'd get home and wouldn't be blown away with my photos, what a surprise. Sounds kind of obvious to shoot what interests you, but its easy to forget.

Why not be both at the same time?

To me street photography just got to have one thing: emergent event. Things outside of your control coming together into this one moment, captured into an image. It has to be something that mostly comes from happenstance. Doesn't matter if you interact or affect your subject(s), asking them to pose and whatnot; what matters is that you never planned to do any of this from the get go, you didn't know these strangers and you didn't know they'll be there at the exact moment you were there. You just happened to meet these lovely people doing their day to day activities, then you go out another day and suddenly fog comes in; you didn't plan nor anticipate this but takes some beautiful shot anyway. Maybe you turned at the wrong corner and see nice set of buildings, see an interesting occurrence, etc. I would barely consider a studio level planned cityscape photography as street photography, much less street portraiture photography. Street photography is a broad subject, but it shouldn't be all encompassing; a distinction is useful and valuable.

Well explain , love it 😍😍

Brilliant video essay Faizal. Well constructed discussion and I think you're right...we should spend less time worrying about which method is "correct" and how they can both enrich our lives as you so eloquently stated.

You are a great story teller and extremely talented photographer as well as videographer. Looking forward to follow you grow and watch your work.

You probably don't need a power converter, to save you space from that massive strip.

Was wondering if I should get this but personally I think it just looks like a dirty lens.

In my country it IS weird to see someone with a camera. Even I would look twice if I saw someone on the street with a camera because I have never seen it unless there was an event going on.

Absolutetly agree. When I first started shooting, back in the day with entry level Nikon camera, I was hooked on the nifty fifty, and all my pictures were bookeh-rich and f1.8. Now, I don't shoot below f5, unless I need light, but in that case, it's always no foreground subject.

I came across this channel, now I'm hooked. Awesome content, love it.

I appreciate your video on explaining the divides of street photography. As a documentary photographer,I favor the documentary approach. But I also will switch towards having the license to modify, cropping mostly and converting from color to black and white imaging on certain photographs I am purposely seeking to capture. I also always insert myself with people because, I have the background of interviewing subjects. I find when you engage with the person, you build a human to human connection which will generate a much stronger image because it is their participation that really makes for a significantly better image. . I post both on my Facebook and Instagram feeds for my viewers can choose which one they prefer. I never alter images in terms of removing objects or reconstructing them.

silly video, why shouldn't it be?

muito bom

Made my day :D The ending was brillant...Actually i stop filming all the time...and i don´t know why...

The genre doesn’t have to be taken so seriously and set with rules. I also fall in the middle with both a fine art approach and a documentary approach. There’s no rules with it. We’re not working for a newspaper or on assignment so that’s what makes it fun to express our own vision.

There is space for every type of creativity. No need to box photographers into a “style” and hit them with a rule book. Go out there and make beautiful things 🎉

"To all viewers but yourself, what matters is the product: the finished artwork. To you, and you alone, what matters is the process: the experience of shaping that artwork. The viewers' concerns are not your concerns (although it's dangerously easy to adopt their attitudes.) Their job is whatever it is: to be moved by art, to be entertained by it, to make a killing off it, whatever. Your job is to learn to work on your work." - Art and Fear Defining what you are or what you want to be has its place but it isn't going to make you a better photographer. Labels exist to pin you in. Make work, have fun and enjoy the practice.

not sure if you will see this, but are your glasses Chimi A2s? I like them and need a new pair of glasses lol

In terms of using the CLE manually isn’t it possible to attach an external light meter to the hot shoe? Like KEKs or TT Artisans micro light meters?

Great film-thank you.

🎉 great video on photography

Very informative thank you.🎉

I found my Leica m4 in Srilanca for 500$+ shipping so You can buy it cheep. Just keep searching ;)

I am in love with my Q3. And I have almost every Sony Alpha you can imagine. None of them is as the Q3. 😊

If the lighting is flat and cloudy I’d rather it’s raining cause at least that provides some interest and atmosphere. Just cloudy flat lighting is the worse

I share Hido Todd philosophy, "photograph like a documentarian, print like a painter." Whatever your vision use all the tools available to you.