I took an express train to NY city for a photo walk. I spent close to two hours walking around 42nd street, and I didn’t have any plans to go anywhere. I wanted to take candid photos of people going about their business and be on the lookout for contrasting elements. Soon after I exited The Grand Central Terminal, I realized that taking pictures of people was going to be harder than I expected; it had been a few months since I walked the streets with my camera so for the first hour I was dubious to bring it to eye level. Street photography demands consistency just like anything else that's worth doing!

I used wide angle lenses on both my digital compact and electronic film camera (A wide conversion lens on my Fuji X100F and a 24mm F2.8 on my Canon EOS 620 loaded with Fomapan 400). I took many pictures from the hip and also tried standing on crosswalks and sidewalks; as well as in front of signs and textured walls waiting for people to walk in front of me. Except for a couple of street portraits I took outside the NY Public Library, I set zone focusing on both of my cameras and shot at F4 with fast shutter speeds ranging from 250-500/sec.

Taking that train ride without much hesitation proved to be a great exercise, all I knew was that I wanted to make the day count by doing something productive even if I was going to be a little disappointed with the results. So I plan to consider my setbacks and make second attempts in my next trip to the city. Will this be a recurring thing I do from now on? - probably so, and I hope that in my next trip to the city, I will get a better idea of what I want to do using whatever time I'll have available.