5 Amazing Street Photos You NEED to See!

[@timjamiesonphotos]

Thinking of making this a series, so leave a comment if you like it! (Or if you don’t!) Thanks for watching!

[@geoffmphotography9444]

Yes, do.

[@onewolfboy]

Yes, I like it. Looking forward to hearing more photographer recommendations from you.

[@gregstevenson7401]

100% Yes.

[@Bigtbone205]

Fred Herzog? Man with a bandage , awesome street story telling

[@timjamiesonphotos]

Yeah great one! He’s one of my favourites for sure

[@fathmathlujain6664]

Your videos inspire me to better my street photography skills 🙏 thanks Tim

[@timjamiesonphotos]

So glad to hear that! Happy shooting :)

[@martingreenberg870]

Thank you for the video. I usually shoot in B&W. That being said, l love the work of Leiter and Haas in particular. There is room for color in my work. Leiter has taught me to use negative space. Without his work I’d never have used this concept in my work. Some of Haas’ work is achingly gorgeous. I love the image of the bull fighter where he drags the shutter. I’ve never done that but will soon. The nature of street photography is such that you can’t copy a fellow photographer. People are in motion. Things on the street are there and then they are not. I can be influenced and am. Very nice selection of images. Mask On Nurse Marty (Ret)

[@timjamiesonphotos]

Very lovely words! And I couldn’t agree more. I don’t think I’d ever have experimented, or at least seen the possibilities, of motion blur in street photography without being inspired by Ernst Haas. He’s also so diverse and doesn’t have what I would say is a set style. He was interested in lots of things and took photos of those things and that’s it. Happy to hear you might experiment with colour, I’m planning on doing the other as I rarely shoot in b&w!

[@MehmetUgur]

Lovely video as always Tim. I have been witnessing your growth since almost the beginning of the channel, you have been creating contents that I envy a lot :) Keep it up mate, cheers.

[@timjamiesonphotos]

Thanks for the comment mate! Really appreciate that, and thank you for following along :)

[@hberkovich]

Great selection of photographers and images! Nice way to add content but please keep sharing your photo journeys on the streets - amazing way to learn and get exposed to a talented photographer's work process that's hard to convey in the other formats...

[@timjamiesonphotos]

Thanks, Hadar! Plenty of street photography content of my work coming up too, just wanted to mix up the videos a bit and try something a little different :)

[@fredrigaudeau]

Great selection of course, Harry Gruyaert being one of my favorite photographer. I’d love to own a photo from him.

[@timjamiesonphotos]

Yeah absolutely! Keep an eye out for Magnum square print sales, best way to get a signed photo from Magnum photographers :)

[@fredrigaudeau]

@@timjamiesonphotos It’s definitely on my radar, prices being quite interesting

[@trevorbrooks813]

Beautiful layers in the first shot and the Haas is also great. I'd have cropped the Gruyaert in a little tighter, almost to where you zoomed in on it but hey that's just showing my personal preference, it's a top shot, wish I'd taken it. I could watch a series of these if you put them together. Thanks for posting.

[@timjamiesonphotos]

Thanks Trevor! Interesting to get your take on the work as well, I could talk about others’ street photography for days!

[@bfs5113]

If it is color photography, then Saul Leiter is my man. Wow for Fan Ho and Lee Friedlander is the answer to the complaint about "there isn't anything worth shooting in a boring place, such as my village or town". Although the rest of the masters are exceptional, but I usually find there is always something that doesn't work for me, such as having a painter mindset (e.g., HCB), time/continuum or location sensitive, being repeated by too many other photographers (especially after 45 years on this journey), etc. 🙂

[@timjamiesonphotos]

Great choices! I tend to agree with your sentiments too, being original is so hard. Will definitely make a similar video with b&w photos as well for sure 👌🏻

[@dashonaubrey1321]

Ernst Haas, Claude Renault, Sergio Larraín to name a few..

[@tomasmano]

This was great, really enjoyed! Thanks for introducing me to the work of Hiroji Kubota, I didn't know about him, I'm gonna have to order a book of his now! :)

[@timjamiesonphotos]

Thanks Tomas! Really glad you enjoyed it! I really enjoy Hiroji Kubota’s work, more ‘travel photography’ than ‘street’ but he’s brilliant. Particularly his work from China I especially love 🙏🏻

[@royhobbs785]

Good stuff, Ernst Haas is my favorite next would be Fred Herzog

[@timjamiesonphotos]

Thanks Paul. I love Herzog too, feel like he is a bit underrated as well

[@stillkim17]

Great inspiration, smooth video, enjoy Marocco ⭐️

[@timjamiesonphotos]

Thanks a lot my friend! 🙏🏻

[@CourtneyG.]

Really enjoyed this, mate. As a 'casual' viewer of street photography - great to learn more and have some further reading. Equally very cool to look at some of your inspirations, and how you adapt it to your work. Keep up the great work, Tim! 😃

[@timjamiesonphotos]

Thanks so much Courtney! It’s a pretty niche subject but I’m happy to hear you found it enjoyable. As always, thanks for your support and kind words!

[@EricGross]

Fabulous video - really inspiring.

[@timjamiesonphotos]

Thank you! Really glad to hear that 😁

[@lalsmile]

Great !

[@markwalch702]

Yes I have one of the photographer books you like and I have been thinking about the other photographers books as well which are in my favourites on Amazon 😊 Tim one of my favourite Photographers is Joel Meyerowitz and his small handy book which is very helpful I think you like him photography as well. Also Vivian Maier there a book called Street photography Now. Tom Wood photography great. The American Photographer call David Alan Harvey his photography wonderful.

[@dougrae3023]

Hi Tim, Great video it really struck a chord with me. I try and avoid social media such as Instagram and Facebook for exactly the reasons you gave. I discovered and fell in love with the work of Saul Leiter some time ago and, like you, frequently use his images as inspiration for my own work. I have also added Michael Kenna (although not street photography) and Ernst Haas to my list of photographers I look to for inspiration. I find it much better to really study and look deeply into their work before going out myself as it helps to concentrate my mind as to what and how I might compose my images and the approach I wish to use. The wide variety of styles and ideas available on Instagram simply confuses me as to what it is I want to do myself. Great stuff, not often I post a comment on KZbin but your clip definitely rang true with me. A very thoughtful educated piece well done. Would certainly watch a series if you made one. All the best Doug

[@timjamiesonphotos]

What a lovely comment! Thanks so much, Doug - it’s greatly appreciated :) Michael Kenna is a great photographer and I think it’s great to have inspirations from all genres, you never know what might resonate and informs your own work. It can certainly be a double edge sword, it can be depressing comparing yourself to others but equally so inspirational to make you go out and create when you admire what others have done. Just about not getting bogged down in the negative and using the positive to propel you when you can. 🙏🏻

[@taiwik]

lovely

[@timjamiesonphotos]

Thanks!

[@albertsmith9315]

I have the two books from Hass and Webb... pretty hard to pick just one image from either. So many are terrific. One commonality from these images is that they were shot on film, slide film. Exposure and composition had to be right, because the image is done at the time of the shutter release. Also slide film had a narrow exposure latitude which meant if you expose for the highlights, the shadows go dark. This was a great tool for those of us that came up on film. You could create negative space from the shadows in a way that was not observed with the eye at the time. Take a look at all five of these images and ask, would they be improved by digital fakery like HDR? I'd say no. These photographers were effective because they did their photography from behind the camera, not on a computer.

[@timjamiesonphotos]

Yeah nothing beats that old slide film, especially Kodachrome!

[@angelasinclair5152]

Another informative video Tim, however, I notice that you haven't hung any of your own work on the wall(s) do you print out your work... ?

[@timjamiesonphotos]

Thanks! I do print my work yeah, but I prefer other artwork up in my home :)

[@stevesvids]

Sunday Morning Coffee ☕ Relaxing Tim Jamieson latest vid Finn dog snoozing by my side. Photography on my mind. Life is good 👍 Happy St Georges Day 👋

[@timjamiesonphotos]

Thanks so much Steve! 🙏🏻

[@stevesvids]

@@timjamiesonphotos and thank you too Tim. Not only making great photos but making great KZbin content too. Its hard work... so I appreciate it. Thanks. 🙂😎📷👍

[@patriciomaggio8872]

Please, could you tell me which is the jazz music of the video? Greetings from Buenos Aires.

[@timjamiesonphotos]

All music in my videos is from epidemic sound, link in the video description :)

[@annerichard788]

I love the examples you chose, but when I want to stimulate myself, I look at old masters such as Elliott Erwitt, Robert Doisneau or even Steve McCurry's travel photos. I'm always looking for funny or strange behaviours of people or animals.

[@timjamiesonphotos]

Yeah of course, there are plenty of photographers to be inspired by

[@geoffmphotography9444]

Good selection. Gruyeart a favourite. Curiously and against the tide, although I admire the complex framing and layering in Webb's images, I find I can't like them. Don't troll me. There are so many greats from the past from whom, despite all our technology, we can learn from. Keep up the good work.

[@timjamiesonphotos]

Thanks a lot mate! And no not at all, I totally get that. Alex Web’s photography certainly isn’t for everyone, I get where you’re coming from for sure. Plus that’s the great thing about street photography, or any art really, it’s subjective and some people like certain things and dislike others and that’s what keeps art interesting :)

[@Mike-vd2qt]

Elliot Erwitt, Henri Cartier Bresson, Dorthea Lange, Diane Arbus... but I'm 71 years old.

[@timjamiesonphotos]

I need to revive this series, so many amazing photographs to talk about

[@bosiefoobar]

Hah, I thought you were going to be cheeky showing five of your photos. Fan ho, anyone?

[@timjamiesonphotos]

Haha! Not yet 😅 but yeah, I’m thinking of doing a similar video but for b&w photographers… one of Fan Ho’s would make that video for sure…

[@bosiefoobar]

@@timjamiesonphotos make one for b&w photographers for sure. now that you mention it, i just realised what is so odd about the video... color street photos. but they are so good, i didn't even notice it :)

[@markbaigent8373]

Sean Tucker, Fan Ho for me

[@timjamiesonphotos]

Fan Ho certainly was a master of his craft and I liked how he used to push his editing in the dark room

[@markbaigent8373]

@@timjamiesonphotos , absolutely, I started my career using 4x5 with B/W and loved to darkroom editing?