“You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”
― Ansel Adams
The greatest fascination of street photography lies in those lovely strangers, which is also an important factor that distinguishes it from architectural photography landscape photography and other forms. How to take pictures of strangers naturally in public places, freezing the emotion at that moment becomes the biggest problem. Similarly, for many people who have just started shooting on the street, it is indeed very difficult to raise the camera calmly to photograph strangers.
As a result, many people’s street photography has become meaningless follow-up photography. Some people may be photographed, but it is difficult to capture emotions. Such a picture is not so beautiful.
In fact, for many people, taking pictures is not a problem. The problem lies in their mentality. Many people often dare not raise their cameras to shoot strangers because of embarrassment. In fact, we are only the first time, once used to this way, you will find how wonderful the world around you.
Every street photographer has his own experience and skills, such as waiting, framing, speed, continuous shooting, specifically looking for easy-to-shoot objects, etc. In the continuous shooting practice, we can also find our subject matter and good Improve it.
Probably in most people’s minds, street photography is just constantly walking, constantly discovering scenes, and then shooting. This is not wrong, we need to constantly observe in the new environment to have more opportunities to find objects or scenes that can be photographed. But the scene is fixed, and people are constantly changing. People are the soul in street photography. We cannot guarantee that every time we see interesting people in every scene, they make up what we want. It is often possible to move from one place to the next to see if there is nothing to shoot, but still can’t find anything to shoot.
Sometimes, street photography needs luck, but more often, street photography needs to wait patiently, when it finds the right background, waiting for the right person to enter the picture. Wait a few minutes at the point where we think there may be an interesting shooting opportunity, and then carefully observe the surrounding environment to observe the surrounding world, try not to look for shooting opportunities, let the shooting opportunities come to you when you are full of When the street is quiet and waiting, you will suddenly find a bunch of pictures that can be shot in front of your eyes.
This is what I captured near the waterfront after an event - a lone anonymous road worker sat on the bench with his bag and phone.
The colours - fluorescent orange and red, blue and yellow plus grey and black
The lines - both vertical and horizontal
The texture - metal, wood and plastic
The shapes
All added together makes it visually interesting. I JUST CAN’T MOVE MY EYE AWAY FROM HIM
