Originally posted by D1N0 DFA 150-450. You will be so far away, you don't need stealth.
The danger is your photos will all have a 'police surveillance' feel to them.
Alex's photo is classic street photography … the tension and etiquette of city dwellers being in the same enclosed space really comes through - look at the confrontation with the guy in the middle - and good street photography has a social commentary of some kind.
From an art point of view, if you're on the same pavement as the subject, you can manoeuvre with just a couple of steps to get a clean background left or right- perhaps low pointing up to avoid distracting elements, or even held up overhead pointing down to do the same thing.
From forty metres away in your sniper position, moving a few steps sideways is not going to alter the angle, you're stuck with that background, and because of the ratios of subject to background to camera distances, it's hard to get bokeh as well. Clear signage or other people can spoil your shot.
Last edited by clackers; 09-07-2018 at 02:13 PM.