During the days of stress and anguish (care for dying parents and a stressful career), I would use photography as a means to relax. The saying is that Street Photography is great in that you never know what you will encounter. If you get nothing that day, it's ok because you got some exercise and time.
I finally decided to go and shoot. My old unofficial office - The Presidio in San Francisco.
Being a weekend, the food trucks were out and grabbed a pretzel (since it's Oktoberfest in Deutschland)
Thing about shooting Instant film versus Digital or film.... Damn it's hard.
Digital is so easy to do - even in manual mode.
Don't get me wrong... great results especially if you know how to use your gear and take time to work on the art and composition.
It takes so much more to try to get a shot. Clandestine Street Photography - forget it. If I took out the TLR Instant I might get away with it but with an SX70, people notice and actually are friendly to it because of how unique the camera is.
The limitations of Instant film is the challenge. You really have to understand the medium and know that to get a good shot will require a lot of problem solving skills that photographers use to get "the shot"
The shot above is nothing. Just a grab shot.
One thing is for certain... time for this OG to get out and shoot more !!!
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