STREET PHOTOGRAPHY | Flirting with the Ads

Street photography is about capturing "the moment" on the street.

No actor, no rehearsal, no plan, just ordinary people, doing ordinary daily life.

What important is, patience.

If you are lucky (very rarely) it would only take a few minutes, otherwise, few hours is a norm for capturing such happening.

So what gear to use for street photography?

Well, you need to have 3 professional SLR bodies, with 300mm f/2.8 IS prime zoom, 20-700 f/2.8 IS L lens, 50mm f/1.0 or better, and if you believe what I said, you are doomed, better stay at home and watch TV or read some photography magazines.

The actual answer is, just a simple basic DSLR with its kit lens 18-55mm will do, or even a prosumer point and shoot like the Canon equivalent of G9 or S5IS.

How about phone camera? Or those ordinary Point & shoot? As mentioned in earlier post that, it does not really matter what type of camera to be used right?

Well, in this situation, (Street photography) you gotta be kidding right, get real come on. It is a true fact that it does not really matter what camera you are using IF you can FREEZE the people on the street!

The moment you see an interesting action, you start up your cheap P&S, focus it, *click* the action is no more, or it might be blurred, so a good gear does helps.

These photos are just few of the samples of street photography,

1. Conversation with the Ad


"Hello.. listen to me... they are watching you ....watching me ..."


2. The Flirty Ad

Girl, you just don't know how the model in the poster act when you are not looking.

STREET | No Feelings!

Saw an interesting banner or some sort of an ads.



No Feelings ... for anybody else .....

wow... kinda cruel ain't it ....

.. or is this some sort of a public expression of one's feeling....

TOKYO | LV CITY

Tokyo is a city driven by high-class fashion.

Adverts depicting people having branded goods are everywhere.

For those luxury goods lover, especially Louis Vuitton, they all know that, Tokyo is the place to be. The Japanese consider it as a "crime" leaving your home without an LV.

Omotesando Avenue in Tokyo, is the place of, once (in 2002) the largest LV boutique in the world, during the time of opening, there were 44 LV store in Japan, of which 7 of them are global stores!

Japan is so special in the heart of most designers, that, some of their items are only available in the Japanese market!

So what accompany a store of such size, 10 floors (6 above ground)? A huge advert of course!

A passer-by, walking pass a huge poster of the very latest addition to the LV's Damier Canvas family, which was recently launched in only 3 places in the World, besides Japan, the 2 other places are Hawaii & Guam!.

For the guys, FYI, the price of the bag, can get you an "L" Lens.

Oh BTW, Did you know that, 99% of the items bearing the trademark LV monogram are fake!