Some Street Photography at Easton Farmer's Market

[hark]

As always, your work is excellent!

Question for you, Jake--on August 23rd you shot with the D600 while on August 30th you shot with the D7100. When doing street photography, do you find you have a preference for either FX or DX, or doesn't it matter? There is an Amish Market not far from here which is only open 3 days per week. After seeing so many of your shots, I may go there and see what it is like. I'm not sure it is anywhere near as big as your Farmer's Market though. I think this Amish Market bought an old car dealership building so I imagine it is limited in size.

On another note, I had to laugh when I read the thread's title. I caught a cursory glimpse of the title and thought it said Sesame Street Photography at Easton Farmer's Market. Here I was expecting to see Big Bird and friends.

 

[BackdoorArts]

I grab whatever I feel like, to be honest. A DX body and 24-120mm f4 is pretty perfect for this stuff. Last week I grabbed the D600 because, well, I have too many cameras and I thought I'd grabbed the D7100. I was glad to get some clicks on it though, as I'd like to test out that new shutter sooner rather than later. When I shot street with the D600 at Musikfest I found that the 24-120mm wasn't long enough. I'm not one to get in folks' faces.

 

[RON_RIP]

I grab whatever I feel like, to be honest. A DX body and 24-120mm f4 is pretty perfect for this stuff. Last week I grabbed the D600 because, well, I have too many cameras and I thought I'd grabbed the D7100. I was glad to get some clicks on it though, as I'd like to test out that new shutter sooner rather than later. When I shot street with the D600 at Musikfest I found that the 24-120mm wasn't long enough. I'm not one to get in folks' faces.

That being said Jake, what lens do you feel would work best with the D600 for street photography?

 

[BackdoorArts]

Honestly? It depends on the street and how close you want to get. And I'm not being flippant. 24-120mm lacks on the far end, 70-200mm lacks on the near end. 28-300mm would be perfect. With the 24-120mm on a DX there are things where I find myself saying, "Damn, it's not wide enough", but for people it's pretty darn good. I'd be better off with the 18-140mm, which I've thought about getting.

"Street" is one of those genres where you are either looking for a specific something, in which case you can get away with a 35mm or a 50mm and be happy, or you're essentially doing random non-event photography, in which case the more range the better. For the Farmer's Market I could do it with the D600 but I like more reach and the D7100 gives me that. If I still had the 28-300mm then I'd use that exclusively for stuff like this.

 

[BackdoorArts]

Two weeks' worth of posts. Last week was busy, busy, busy.

Here's 9/6 at the Farmer's Market...

(FYI, from 40 feet away this one was so sharp in RAW that had any of her 7 credit/debit cards been showing I could have had a field day with "Jennifer's" bank account).

 

[BackdoorArts]

 

[BackdoorArts]

This past weekend. Rained on and off all morning, and the cold is setting in.

 

[BackdoorArts]

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The first 3 photos are a series. The boy was walking with his Mom when the rain started picking up. As she stopped to buy them breakfast he decided to sidle up next to a girl behind them in line and get out of the rain. I love the look on his face as he looks up at her as if to say, "You really don't mind sharing your umbrella, right?"