Today, I headed into Salt Lake City to The Gateway area with a mission of shooting some architectural street photography. Not sure if that is even a real term in the photography world, but it makes sense to me.
Now one thing that is really tough about tryin to do street photography with a lens like this is that at 17mm, this lens is pretty damn wide, so trying to get up close and personal shots of people is pretty much impossible. Especially since I was shooting bracketed, which means that the camera takes three images, one over exposed, one perfectly expose and one under exposed. Then I take those three images and merge them together with HDR software to get a balance of all of them to widen the dynamic range that is available.
So with architectural street photography, you want to frame up a scene from a distance. It can be a bit more tricky than traditional street photography because you need to focus more on lines and how they all intersect and still try and wait for a good moment to take the photo, whether it is waiting for cars to come into the frame or people. It is cool to show movement in the image with cars or people, but just remember that they are going to be a lot smaller than when shooting with a different lens.
I spent a couple hours just wandering downtown taking pictures, but after that long in the sun lugging around my huge camera, tripod and my camera bag, I decided it was time to put all my stuff up and go grab some food before I passed out. I really wish I would have worn some sunscreen today because I may end up with a sunburn on the top of my bald head. So now I am going to try and get some rest and stay out of the sun for a bit. Thanks for taking the time to stop by and check out my pictures.