Portrait photographer Oded Wagenstein recently sat down with Canon to share the most important lesson he’s learned over the course of his career. Namely: how to build meaningful relationships with strangers and capture more authentic portraits as a result.
I'm often asked about my process when it comes to photographing strangers. How do I approach someone? What if they say no? Should I shoot in manual mode? These are just a few of questions I receive as people want to start their own journey in street portraiture.
I completely agree with you that in the age of digital photography and mobile phones, the idea of spending a year on just film is really insane. But on the other side of things, I believe that spending a year working with film is one of the best thing that many photographers can do for themselves and their work.
Cameras these days have a gillion autofocus points, so why would you choose to focus and recompose a scene instead? If you're new to photography, you've probably never thought about or knew about the focus and recompose method at all.
What is it that separates some of the most well-known photographers of our generation and everyone else? It’s not the gear because as we have said many times, no one makes a bad camera anymore.