Steve McCurry's 1-Minute Masterclass

[graciousness]

Steve McCurry's One-Minute Masterclass #5 | Photography | Agenda | Phaidon

Just stumbled upon this and whilst I haven't watched it, I wanted to share it with you good people of DPS! This is going to be interesting, if not, revelatory.

Cheers,

Grace

[RichardTaylor]

Thanks for the post.

Have a look at some of Cartier-Bresson's or Robert Doisneau's photography.

You may find this tute ( of mine) of interest - Especially part 3.
It just doesn't only apply to street or people photography.

Part (1)
Capturing the "moment" (1)

Part 3
Capturing the moment (3)

[Woody]

Thanks Grace and Richard. McCurry's an interesting character isn't he?

Richard, your tute is very good and informative as usual.

Cheers,

John W

[graciousness]

So I've seen all five so far and I think for me, video no 3 really hit it. It explained the motions I went through taking photos at the children's party last Sunday and I was just so in that moment and was really enjoying capturing those little instances with people. I went home and that spirit showed on the images and I was so satisfied.

No 5 hit it for me, too. Not that I've done street photography yet, but I so completely agree with this idea to display your enthusiasm and approaching the people you want to photograph, instead of the usual sneaky approaches that's been advised by so many. I actually don't like that approach, but Steve's advice was spot on for me, personally.

Looking forward to the rest of the videos as I believe there will be ten or so total for the series.

I like Doisneau, but his work is a little 'glossy' for me. Err, how do I explain that? I guess what I mean is that I like the raw feel of Steve's images in comparison to Doisneau's.

Cheers guys

[RichardTaylor]

Thanks very much, Woody.