Here are just a few street photos we took while chatting with street photographer Robert M Johnson. Armed with disposable cameras a group of local students who had never gone done street photography before took to the streets of Main South.

Photo gallery in either aFlash or HTML version.

Click more for more photos and tips for street photography.

You can also check out our first street photo gallery.

Street photography is hard to define, but easy to do. At its simplest street photography is any photograph taken in a public place. Those vacation photos you took last summer? Street photography. It’s the act of capturing the real world with photographs.

Main South is a really dynamic and interesting place to take photographs. The architecture, the shops, the people, the parks, the art. They are all prime subjects for street photography.

Here are some tips for the beginning streets photographer.

* Move in! Get close to your subject to fill your frame.

* Don’t worry about taking people’s photos. Most people could care less. Just smile and have fun.

* EVERYTHING is a potential photograph. Keep your eyes peeled and your camera out.

* Shoot, shoot, shoot. With digital cameras it is cheap and easy to take TONS of photographs all the time. Get out there and have fun!