Here are some photos from another photo walk in Downtown Los Angeles. This time, we went to Little Tokyo and the Arts District. With street photography, I am working on finding images that tell stories in my surroundings, rather than creating images from a story that I have created from nothing as I do in animation. This time I went out with the Sigma FP, Carl Zeiss 25mm f2.8 and Mamiya 150mm f3.5 lenses.
Grand Ave Street Photography DTLA
I took the Sigma FP, an old Vivitar Close Focus 28mm f2, Soligor 135mm f2 and a Laowa 15mm f4. I caught the sun as it shone through the buildings by Figueroa and 7th before joining the group behind the Central Library, up through Grand Ave, Grand Park and back again. Here are some of my favorites from the night. One of the highlights for me was while walking down Grand Ave, we saw some well dressed folks taking photos in the center lane of the street. Not wanting to intrude, we just kept taking photos around, when they invited us to photograph them. Those were a lot of fun and of course I made sure to send the photos to our wonderful models. While looking at the rest of the photos, it was fun to see which were more interesting to me. There are moments where a figure completes the composition of buildings and streets or a car slides into frame in mid turn that I feel make for a more interesting, captured moment.