Shooting from the hip - an experiment

The other day when I was out shooting I decided to try shooting from the hip.  I had been looking at the work of William Klein again and decided that I would try and give it a shot.

Here are some of the best images:

I found working like this very difficult.  A lot of my images including these ones are blurred and out of focus. i also found it extremely difficult to frame a shot as I couldn't work out my composition.  When you are used to see things from a certain perspective it's difficult to change that.  

However, I did find that people weren't as aware of the camera as it looked like you weren't actually taking a shot.  I think the next time I try this I will use Liveview to see if that improves my composition.  

I do find though that there is a lot of movement in the shots.  This may be down to the blurry effect of it may be down to the odd angles the images have been shot from.