Mastering Street Photography: Exclusive Insights with @ThomasEisl.Photography

[@ThomasEisl.Photography]

Peter, thanks for having me on your fantastic channel and for the great time with you in Vienna, it was one of the best days this year! Hope we can do this again soon, friend 📸

[@ForsgardPeter]

I was my pleasure! I also had a great day. We are a good team! Yes it would be nice to do this again. Maybe it happens next fall in October?

[@johnhoey7717]

Work the shot, work the shot, work the shot. And then, work the shot. This is a critical element to street photography when the opportunity is there.

[@ThomasEisl.Photography]

💯

[@Lordvader330]

Nothing better than Peter and Thomas Together!

[@Eti1968]

Thank you both, great team up. Hope to see more. It’s nice to see all my favorites mix up, also Matti, Robin and Rob.

[@denistessier8642]

Two of my favourite photographers! I learn so much from both your KZbin videos! This made my day!

[@ForsgardPeter]

Wow, thanks!

[@eskomies]

Glad to see interviews for a change. We need more photography talks in KZbin. Question, when does documentary becomes street and visa versa? I think they overlap quite well. Btw. One of my fave shots in Estonia this summer was a tourist photographing a green lada. I got them documented or "streeted" if you will. Subbed for Eisl too.

[@ThomasEisl.Photography]

Awesome!

[@nigelalexander1594]

I now understand the aspects of pre visualisation even if you do not have your camera with you, it’s sounds to me gaining the experience is as important as taken the image? Great video full of helpful information.

[@ForsgardPeter]

Great to hear!

[@Rnder72]

Thanks Thomas and Peter, this is great content. I walked the streets yesterday for just over an hour, 63 shots, more photos than I thought I took. I really should work my compositions more, something catches my eye and I take a shot maybe two. Really looking forward to your thoughts on 17mm f1.2

[@michaelajoseph6856]

Thank you both!

[@ForsgardPeter]

Our pleasure!

[@dennismwallentin296]

Lovely ❤

[@ForsgardPeter]

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@gordon3988]

Enjoyed!

[@ForsgardPeter]

Glad to hear.

[@janmartin4864]

Time 21.01 darwin Australia Thank you again for a wonderful video so inspiring ❤🎉

[@ВалентинАракчеев-б7д]

Habari za mchana Peter Forsgård na ThomasEisl! Daima ni nzuri kuona watu wanaopenda picha zilizo karibu nawe, na watu, na usanifu wa miji. Lakini wakati huo huo, wewe ni tofauti, lakini una hamu sawa ya kukamata wakati, kukamata wakati wa historia. Mafanikio ya ubunifu kwako!

[@ForsgardPeter]

Thank you. I am glad you enjoyed the video.

[@ThomasEisl.Photography]

Thank you very much!

[@homesickphotographycomau4107]

I so relate to this chat, I get hook and time move at lighting speed and it can end hours later. when you come out the mode. for me it my mind sees a specific colour for the day and I chase it for the whole day. or a feeling over power and i drive to Proof that it's just not in one shot or frame. Also can feel like hunting of game. Peter this change in your video style has taken you down a great path.

[@ForsgardPeter]

Thanks for sharing.

[@iandrury1542]

Great video guys and the thoughts you've expressed really resonate with me. More like this one please !

[@ForsgardPeter]

Thank you. Glad to hear.

[@TimS-pg5pv]

Great video. For me when I travel I take shots as a visual diary of my time there. Memories, I may have a pre-conceived idea so some of these might be of "the sights" because family back home like these but it's the incidental images that I find of most value when I look back thru' the digital 'contact sheet'. I would probably take less than your 2 days worth in the same time Peter.

[@ForsgardPeter]

Thanks for sharing. Yes, I agree that memories are important. I also think that over photographing is not the best way. You are really considering what you photograph. The amount is not much. i think it most likely gives better images too than if you were photographing a ton of photos.

[@awpqq]

Very interesting video. In a weeks time I am going to Nice, France for just three and a half days. I'll be shooting street and 'travel' type images. I would hope to submit around 50 images from each day tp stock libraries.. A similar trip in April to Naples produced around 230 images for stock libraries. In addition I will do some personal 'memory' shots.

[@kiwikea2002]

Excellent talk and excellent photo examples. Pre-visualization - or "looking and imagining ahead" - is key. I believe one has to take one's time and not get impatient and walk on too fast or "scattershoot". My perhaps old fashioned take. (Yes, I understand the KZbinr's dilemma.) Thank you.

[@ForsgardPeter]

Thank you very much.

[@ChristopherBonis]

Any comment on Thomas’ cool colour profile/edits? Makes the images very distinctive.

[@ForsgardPeter]

I liked it a lot. I was talking about his use of red in the video. That is precisely what he used again when we were photographing on the streets of Vienna. It is pretty clear that he is a fashion photographer just by looking at his choice of subjects and style when photographing street photos. It is a nice bleach style if one could call it that, and at the same time, the colors are quite bright. I really liked it.

[@simonatterbury]

Great video.

[@ForsgardPeter]

Thanks.

[@novranyuranda8596]

Uwogh 🎉

[@JamesMeeks-l3j]

Great video. It's so funny to see you with Thomas Eisl, whom I follow, or with Matti Sulanto, whom I also follow. Then I watch one of Matti's videos and he's with Robin Wong.....:)

[@ForsgardPeter]

I like to make these collabs with other photographers. I wish it was possible to do more.

[@JamesMeeks-l3j]

@@ForsgardPeter It certainly adds credibility to one another and means that I have good taste in the channels I follow. Ha!😂

[@aerialfilm1]

11:55 is my biggest problem. I have forced out so many average and bad photos because I’m biased by the great memories they invoke. It also works the other way. I’ve been told I have several strong images that I can’t be bothered with because they remind me of unpleasant memories. This is why I feel critiquing from an unaffected third party is critical. It may sting a little, but sometimes you need to be told your baby is ugly.

[@ForsgardPeter]

Thank you for sharing.

[@jpsteiner2]

When I take photographs with my OM-10 film camera, I concentrate much more on light, subject and composition. It may take me several days to shoot one roll of 36 exposure film.

[@bertjeeninga36]

I usualy wait at least one week to select the images. Mostly i dont remember all the pictures so that i have forgotten the emotion i had when taken the picture.

[@lorenschwiderski]

After you have taken enough photographs in your life, you get a sense of what will work. With digital, of course you can take more, and there is nothing wrong in that, or is there? At a certain point you get sloppy and lose the concentration you had when you shot film and every shot was important. Don't get lazy. If you shoot one to three shots, you should be able to nail one down each subject. Taking 30 to 50 shots most days is more than enough. If traveling, then more of course. You'll know it when you see it, unless you luck-out and get the unexpected within the frame you did not actually see when taking a shot. This happens a few times per year. When out on the street I want to be light and free of carrying of gear and more like just another man walking about their day, thus no backpack. You two had a great day of photographing, and that is very important. Should it ever become drudgery, then it is the time to quit and find that something next. It needs to excite the soul. Take care, Loren

[@ForsgardPeter]

Thanks for sharing.

[@ProbablyAnAmateur]

personally i dont do street, because i dont do that kind of art. i prefer the travel style of photography. yes, there are people in them, but i try to not put them entirely in the shot. just a few people to illustrate travel tourism. i feel more comfortable that way and i dont really feel like id be confronted anytime soon.

[@donconrard533]

I heard that it is illegal in Germany to take a photo of someone on the street without their permission. Is that true?

[@ForsgardPeter]

No it is totally legal if it is a public place. There might be so restrictions when publishing. A recent ruling by the German Supreme Court recognized street photography as an art form, reinforcing constitutional rights to create such work.

[@anils.rkumar6551]

Any street photographers from Vienna?

[@recreationalplutonium]

street photography is so creepy it should be a bannable offense

[@ProbablyAnAmateur]

why is it creepy? its a public place? dont expect privacy in a public place? it's contradictory? why ban something like that? got something to hide? what is there to hide? so many questions to what you have said lol i may as well ask them all here.

[@formermpc10]

Not a fan of Eisl.