How my experience of street photography was?
In my opinion I think that street photography was very enjoyable and amusing to me because it was very intimidating to talk to people who are complete strangers to you and meeting new people you have never seen before and making new friends in public who have different views and interests. Also as well as taking pictures of people we took pictures of the environment like the park, nature, streets, buildings, transport and a garage with a mechanic which was a great place with interesting things and a place for a nice background with equipment like metals and tools. We capture things that happen which people miss out but the photographer captures like a picture of someone swearing at someone because of their race and a woman who puts her shopping bags on a old man and his wheelchair and she was supposed to be a caretaker which went viral on the internet and on newspapers. As well as this we see different emotions and feelings in peoples face and they started getting into it and doing different poses for us and we captured more than one picture. We found people riding bikes, walking and doing their job which made us take natural pictures and capture movement. Street photography made us captured funny moments too which made the audience laugh and taking pictures of people who aren't even ready for the picture which looks natural and people in their own world and looking at us with confusion and to question themselves what we are exactly doing. As a photographer we can use representation so we can show the audience what we want to show them so we have full control over the image.
Research
Street photography is about documenting everyday life and society and personally I don’t think street photography needs to be shot in the street. You can shoot at the airport, mall, beach, park, bus, subway, doctor’s office, grocery store or in any other public places.
Furthermore street photography is generally done candidly without permission and without knowledge of your subjects. However I personally don’t think that street photography has to be candid and you can ask for permission when taking a photograph of a stranger. The most important thing in street photography is to capture emotion, humanity and soul. The most important thing at the end of the day is creating powerful, compelling, and emotional images.
In street photography you can create a strong image by juxtaposing elements in your frame and juxtaposition is essentially a fancy word for contrast. To be more specific juxtaposition is when you put two different elements in a frame that directly contradict one another while having a relationship. Another strategy could be looking for certain emotions in people when you’re out on the street and trying to find emotions of other people in the street that either are similar or dissimilar and include them in the frame.
If you are in public you are most likely to be taking street photography and the most memorable street photographs are the ones that have strong emotion and show some sort of reflection on the human condition. This can include happiness, pain, sadness, loneliness, humor, anxiety, youth and love. Some of the best street photographs focus on the details and not the whole picture. When you are shooting on the streets you can focus on small details. This means rather than taking a full body shot of someone on the streets like focus on their hands, face, earrings, hands, feet or anything else they are holding and by showing less of what is going on in the photograph and you create more mystery in your image.
Street photography is about documenting everyday life and society and personally I don’t think street photography needs to be shot in the street. You can shoot at the airport, mall, beach, park, bus, subway, doctor’s office, grocery store or in any other public places.
Furthermore street photography is generally done candidly without permission and without knowledge of your subjects. However I personally don’t think that street photography has to be candid and you can ask for permission when taking a photograph of a stranger. The most important thing in street photography is to capture emotion, humanity and soul. The most important thing at the end of the day is creating powerful, compelling, and emotional images.
In street photography you can create a strong image by juxtaposing elements in your frame and juxtaposition is essentially a fancy word for contrast. To be more specific juxtaposition is when you put two different elements in a frame that directly contradict one another while having a relationship. Another strategy could be looking for certain emotions in people when you’re out on the street and trying to find emotions of other people in the street that either are similar or dissimilar and include them in the frame.
If you are in public you are most likely to be taking street photography and the most memorable street photographs are the ones that have strong emotion and show some sort of reflection on the human condition. This can include happiness, pain, sadness, loneliness, humor, anxiety, youth and love. Some of the best street photographs focus on the details and not the whole picture. When you are shooting on the streets you can focus on small details. This means rather than taking a full body shot of someone on the streets like focus on their hands, face, earrings, hands, feet or anything else they are holding and by showing less of what is going on in the photograph and you create more mystery in your image.
Why?
Street photography is a way to remember and appreciate the small things that are overlooked in the day and turn street photography into memories that stay forever in a image.
Where?
Street photography can be done anywhere in the world for example cities, train stations, parks, roads, theme parks, funfair, shopping centres, gardens and in a busy street where there are lots of things happening with a mixture of different people and have lots of objects and backgrounds.
Who?
Photographers who have an interest in street photography or other photographers that get inspired from it from seeing pictures of street photography or looking at someone doing it or maybe took a picture by accident that looked amazing at went on to doing more street photography.
When?
Street photography can be done at the night time and day time and with any weather where it could be raining, snowing, sunny or even a dull day where it's cloudy and it doesn't have to be crowded with people everywhere because you can take pictures of nature, buildings and objects that you see.
What?
Street photography is really about taking pictures of things that are happening around you and the objects that are there and capturing those moments where you could have been the only person to see it and putting it into a photograph for others to see or you having it as a memory for yourself which could be of people, nature, buildings, animals and busy streets.
Street photography is a way to remember and appreciate the small things that are overlooked in the day and turn street photography into memories that stay forever in a image.
Where?
Street photography can be done anywhere in the world for example cities, train stations, parks, roads, theme parks, funfair, shopping centres, gardens and in a busy street where there are lots of things happening with a mixture of different people and have lots of objects and backgrounds.
Who?
Photographers who have an interest in street photography or other photographers that get inspired from it from seeing pictures of street photography or looking at someone doing it or maybe took a picture by accident that looked amazing at went on to doing more street photography.
When?
Street photography can be done at the night time and day time and with any weather where it could be raining, snowing, sunny or even a dull day where it's cloudy and it doesn't have to be crowded with people everywhere because you can take pictures of nature, buildings and objects that you see.
What?
Street photography is really about taking pictures of things that are happening around you and the objects that are there and capturing those moments where you could have been the only person to see it and putting it into a photograph for others to see or you having it as a memory for yourself which could be of people, nature, buildings, animals and busy streets.