You can now wait for a person or animal to get into the frame (see decisive moment) or you are skilled to frame your subject on the go while hunting. There are several composition principles that have proven to be pleasing the human minds and tastes, let’s have a look on the most popular ones:įraming means that you arrange your scenery so that one or more things start to literally build a frame around your point of interest. For obvious reasons i would add people, movements and interactions to a list on street photography compositions. It’s the arrangement and mixture of ingredients such as lines, shapes, spaces and colors ( in depth here). They are a great start to experiment with and develop your style and if you have wondered sometimes why one image is just more appealing than a similar looking, here’s why.Ĭomposition in a nutshell is to take the eye of your viewer along the story of your photograph or to guide the eye of the viewer directly towards key elements. The principles are no hard rules to obey and can be broken anytime and in anyway that you want. It is here, where I briefly write about compositions, because with the fisher-tactic you’re not in a hurry and have plenty of time to compose your image before you click the shutter.Īs soon as compositions run in your blood, such a vision enhances your quick, hunting-style street photographs automatically. Please don’t kill but catch & release your fishes.Īll you need to go fishing is a spot, an idea, a camera and patience. The Tale of the Hunter and the Fisherman Fisherman-TechniquesĪs a fisherman you can chose to have a relaxing time at your pond (read: scenery), throw your bait (read: wait for your decisive moment) and catch fishes while they are passing by (read: shooting your contact sheets). They grew up as handsome and skillful young men, and both of them had their own talents. Hoori was the happy hunter, and his older brother Hoderi was the competitive fisherman. There lived a hunter and a fisherman, who were descendants of deities. In case you want to learn new techniques and get tipps to increase your chance of good footage, read on. Mix and Match all the what it is’s and what it’s not’s to your liking, play with styles and techniques. Make your day your photographic playground. Discover all the peculiarities and ordinarities of everyday life.
Thus, my theory of street photography is that it’s more of an an appeal:īe the flâneur. As a part of that new technologies (hello mirrorless cameras, smartphones and instagram) bring a ton of new players and their visions into street photography documenting and evolving the Zeitgeist. Urban life by definition is contemporary.
At the same time, putting a fence around it is literally a limitation and i do not want to limit my vision of street photography. It’s incredibly difficult to pigeonhole this genre lacking an adjacent one. It’s their taste.Īnother attempt to explain my point of view is to ask “what are all those other photographs, then?”. In my humble opinion, all those “definitions” are mainly expressions of what these individuals reward as good street photography. The list goes on and on and the next list states the contrary. Some rules say that is has to be candid, you’re not allowed to crop or even edit, never shoot the back of a person. There are uncounted discussions argumenting back and fort about what street photography is and what it’s not.
You basically knows what it is, but as soon as you have to describe it, you have a very hard time. The street photographer can be seen as an extension of the flâneur, an observer of the streets Susan Sontagĭefining landscape photography, wildlife, food or fashion photography is very apparent, defining street photography is a totally different beast.
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