Downtown Los Angeles, undeniably my favorite neighborhood in all of LA. Everything about this place shaped how I ended up becoming a street photographer and it's almost amazing to me that it took me so long to come up with a blog that features it. A couple of months after I moved to LA over two years ago, I saw the movie (500) Days of Summer and I'm not shy to admit that this movie introduced me to my own city. I knew nothing of the place I had moved to aside from the common misconceptions of a tourist. After that, I made it a point to know everything I can about Downtown LA and actually get to walk the streets that people who live and work outside downtown don't normally visit. I pity the people who live around LA and never set foot on downtown. There really is so much character that this place has to offer. Maybe it's because of it's shady past and unflattering stereotypes.
Like so many before me, all I really want to accomplish is shed some light on Downtown LA. This is my way of returning the favor to a place that has been so good to me and my old Canon Point and Shoot. After all, it has always been my personal oasis.
Like so many before me, all I really want to accomplish is shed some light on Downtown LA. This is my way of returning the favor to a place that has been so good to me and my old Canon Point and Shoot. After all, it has always been my personal oasis.
I've been described by people as a quite person, good listener and keen observer, but nothing has made me more vigilant than Street Photography. There are millions of possibilities when I'm out on the streets, and to be able to determine a possible outcome is a skill I'm trying to learn. Somehow once you begin shooting and shooting, events start to unfold right in front of your lens. I went to downtown LA today to try out my new Asanuma 28mm(equivalent of 46mm) lens on my Olympus EP-1. What I failed to ask before I bought it is if it had a manual aperture dial which it did not. Meaning I had to treat this lens as a single aperture(f 2.8) lens. So I took upon the challenge and I believe my results were truly unexpected.
So why Street Photography? Because it makes me notice subtleties and juxtapositions around me. Things that have always been looping in my thoughts but now I'm able to put them into images and I'm more than happy to share them with the world.- NVE