Street Photography GoPro POV Video in Downtown Nashville with a Leica M4 and Portra 400 by Patrick Casey

by Eric Kim on February 27, 2012

I stumbled upon a street photography POV video with a GoPro by Patrick Casey in Downtown Nashville. You can see that even though the streets aren’t very crowded, there are still lots of photo opportunities to be seen! He gets some solid shots in the video- and also shares them for everyone to see how he works in the street.

Some more info from YouTube:

I use a Leica M4 with a Zeiss Biogon 35mm f/2. I use portra 400 handprocessed in a unicolor press kit. I print every photo I take in a darkroom. Song in the background is Pretty Lights – Stay

For those of you interested in making your own street photography POV video, this is what you will need:

You can put the pieces together, and have your GoPro mount on top of your camera’s hotshoe mount.

Looking forward to seeing other people make more of these videos! Also let us know what you thought about Patrick’s video and shots in the comments below! 

Tagged as: gopro hero, Patrick Casey, street photography pov

  • Ramones

    POV videos seem to pop up everywhere now and with each video, nothing new is learned. I’m not sure what the point of them is. We all know what it’s like to walk around on a sidewalk with a camera don’t we? Is street photography some sort of adventure sport? I can’t help but think that these videos are made to stroke the ego of the photographer. To show the little people how great these sidewalk soldiers are. Do we live in a society where it’s not good enough to just create art but we have to be art as well?

    In regards to the state of street photography today, I’m quiet depressed. People like Mr Kim are trying to turn it into some sort of Disney enterprise. “Step right up folks and buy a t-shirt with your favorite street photography character on it. We’ve got HCB, GW, and JM! Step right up!” It’s fun for all. Ride the POV roller coaster; it’s a thrill!
    Then we’ve got the Nick Turpin formula. Create an exclusive website (in-public), invite a few masters to display their work, and then add your own photos into the mix. Now you appear successful because you’re associated with some big names.
    We don’t need these kind of people to advocate for street photography. Street photography lives and breaths on its own without intervention. These advocates are the type of people that need constant attention. They are not concerned with the art. They see this as a way to become important and famous. It’s the Kardashian syndrome.

    True art comes from the heart. How can someone teach you that? You can be taught to set the correct aperture and shutter speed but you cannot be taught what makes a good photo. People like Kim and Turpin have no clue what makes a good photo. They only parrot those that came before them and hope nobody notices.

    I cringe when I hear or read the term “Street Photography” nowadays. I am a photographer first and foremost and I don’t need people like Kim and Turpin to place a neat little label on me and place me in a box.

    • Lorenzo

      Haters don’t sleep..

    • Frank Rakete

      Fuck off then. What are you even doing here? Nobody being allowed to talk write or make videos and projects it sure would be more fun. But i guess it aint abou fun either eh. I understand some of your points but its a free world and if aou dont like these vids ddont wat

    • Erik

      I agree in part, I don’t really think going to workshops or watching a movie will teach you street photography and the internet has it’s share of self-proclaimed authorities, but I still think your missing the point. By watching others work and by getting together to discuss and experience actively with others you will develop as a photographer and most likely be inspired. You don’t need to pay for a workshop though, just get together with someone like-minded. As for actually shooting on the street I don’t like the “hunting pack” feel you get from watching movies from workshops. It’s more of a lonesome pursuit for me. The thing is, you can choose not to participate. Let it be whatever you want it to be for you, and let it be to others what they want it to be.

      I find these kind of videos inspiring to watch, and I really like some of the shots in this one. Patrick Casey’s style (based on the pictures in the video) seems very simple and minimal. The pictures have a sense of calm about them that I really like.

    • jeffAZ

      “Nothing new is learned” – I gained something from the video, so your argument is void.

      if you’re so awesome and photograph so deeply from within your heart that you’re pretty much a direct descendant of all the greats – that’s fantastic, maybe you should hang up your web browser and go take some photos to share with the world?

      The rest of us want to learn as much as we can, from the web, from videos, from books, and most importantly, from being out taking photographs.

  • Sabouringuy

    What’s that video ? A joke ?
    Ramones is so right.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1420931094 Ollie Gapper

    Nice, solid images, love that portra ‘feel’

  • http://silentxpression.wordpress.com/ Simon Wallerstedt

    Great images, and fun to see how they came about. Great eye for composition.

  • http://twitter.com/sandervdveen Sander van der Veen

    The video I don’t care much about, allthough it’s still interesting. The images itself I do, they are well shot, nice composition. Good eye Patrick!

  • takeshigarcia

    nice. that was an interesting POV

  • Dacoit

    Perhaps Ramones would favor us with a link to some of his images, so we can learn from his art. I am not going to begrudge anyone who wants to make living with his camera, be it still or video.

    I like the GoPro videos because we see different approaches to the overall project. If they aren’t as interesting, you can always skip ahead or stop. No harm done. This one was surprising by how empty the streets were, and yet the photog kept plugging away, looking for something. I think I would have called it a day, but this one tells me looking hard can yield something.

    Artists’ contempt for other artists is about as old as art, I think. Think about Glenn Gould’s famous (or infamous) contempt for Mozart, or the scorn initially heaped upon Monet by some of the best artists in Paris. If the greats can miss the mark, so can we humbler souls.

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  • rimbaud123xx

    no problem w/video. like the fact he prints his own shots. it’s all good. i shoot a lot w/leica m4 as well. a great eye is hard to find, rare. street photo? check gary winnogrand. i think everyone should shoot film, b&w, learn the essentials. digital has really opened it up. when i learned you had to wait to see what you had. now for example, you want to see what depth of field is? you can do it in a minute. you want to see what effect different lenses have? you don’t get a shot right? you can sit there all day and shoot literally many hundreds of images till you get it right. and digital really gives almost perfect exposure. i learned w/a cheap rangefinder, age 15, then a cheap yashica tl electro slr. taught myself. printed in the kitchen. washed prints in the tub. a magical feeling watching the image come up. everyone should try it. it’s all good.

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  • Patrick

    @433825e4ccb0f9929c79e5b5ea861242:disqus Patrick here. I understand your sentiments with the way street photography as a term is being used as a marketing term, or a franchise type deal. The point of my video was not for money, not for fame, but simply to show how and where I shoot. When you say the photos were not shot with heart I do however find that a bit… ignorant. While you and I do not know each other, a simple conversation with me would put that theory of yours to rest. I shoot because I love it.

    -Patrick Casey

  • 45SURF

    Rock on! We’ve been doing something similar for a few years. Here’s how we shoot stills and video at the same time by mounting a camcorder underneath a DSLR camera: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwL5EdPNWW4 Lately we have been mounting a Sony NEX 6 under a Nikon D800E. This way we get to use a flash in the flash shoe too. Rock on!

    You’ll enjoy my article published in Resource Magazine:
    How Will You Shoot Quality Stills & Video @ The Same Time?http://45surfer.wordpress.com/

    “Just as the world’s greatest surfer, Kelly Slater, reinvented himself by mastering aerials, today’s visual artists must remain competitive by keeping themselves atop the latest technological waves. And today’s dawn patrol is reporting that the waves are ideal for gnarly acrobatics once thought impossible: shooting high-quality stills and video simultaneously.”

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