#306 PHOTOWALK: STREET WISE AND CONFIDENT
Today street and people photographer Gabrielle Motola on finding confidence for making street portraits. In the mailbag, first-ever photowalks, an important letter of self-belief, holidaying from social media channels, the joy of macro with photowalks no further from your back yard, why photography has rescued one friend of the show, pictures that show how you feel and making ICM photos with a smartphone!
REFERENCED WITHIN THE SHOW: Email your stories and pictures, PD’s Facebook group, Expert Photography’s guide to the Nifty Fifty, Gulnara Samoilova street photographer, and her appearance on episode 224, Phil Mynott from episode 8, the first official episode of PD (how things changed), Tim Wallace, Gabrielle Motola’s workshop, the Family of Man, with further PICTURE LINKS BELOW.
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Gabrielle Motola’s street portraits.
Patron Judith McDermott’s ICM with a smartphone (iPhone 13 Mini), using the app Slow Shutter.
Paul Martin (above and below) makes his first photowalk around his city of Liverpool, finding his photographic feet very quickly with confidence.
Chris Rugowski discovering a life of rebooting from social media, whilst building his photographic business. See also Chris’s Instagram feed.
Casey Sisterson’s short photowalk through the ‘jungle’ of her backyard with a macro lens.
Sketchbook images from my photowalk making images for the show.
The Photographic Eye’s film about Edward Steichen, the Post Script to today’s Photowalk show.
