Winter Photo Moscow city – walk in the winter Moscow and talk about the genre of the urban photo

City Photo

Moscow City Photo – what is it? Street photography or cityscape, or maybe something else?

Street people
Street people – who's in charge?

Let's take an example to understand winter walk through Moscow. It seems to me, that it will be easier to understand, the difference between urban photography from the street .... Although, in fact there is no difference, Street and just a photo is part of a larger whole – City Photo. Just so with a capital letter.

We begin with a series of shots of the city at a walk around Moscow. Moscow general photogenic city and the capital itself, and its inhabitants, and guests can be photographed endlessly, and every time you shoot something new, something, which we have not seen before.

so, Urban Photo or City photo – definition:

City Photo – is a genre of photography, the object of which is the city, integrally. City Photo includes three directions – street photography, architectural photography and urban landscape. In urban people pictures, Architecture and urban landscape may play an independent role and is central to the plot, but may be members of equivalent composition.

I.e, City Photo – This report on the entire city and all its contents, including animate and inanimate objects.

Defining the city my photos, and the accuracy of his, I can not vouch, but I think I still captures the essence of urban photos. Especially, it's not that hard to do – Mix of people, houses, streets and animals.

Cat - resident of the city and the urban character pictures
Residents of Moscow and architecture

Well, the theory seem to have committed, and now move on to practice. Just make a reservation, I did not choose any special place in Moscow, but simply to illustrate the article went on Taganka simply because, that had long been walking in the neighborhood. Did it intentionally, to show – urban photography genre is versatile and suitable for almost any city or district. Never mind, where you live – in Moscow, in Saratov, Kolomna or Engels – City photographer always find a plot for your images.

Another digression:

City Photo – it is an urban chronicle, and urban photographers do not just press the shutter release – they create this chronicle. Especially valuable and urban photos, you imprinted city to a certain point in time, and these moments will never be repeated.

It is worth remembering about this and if you decide to become a city still photographer, try not to miss it, that may disappear. After all, perhaps your pictures will be the only reminder of the place and time..

While walking around Moscow, I used a Nikon D750 camera and an AF-S NIKKOR lens 50 mm f 1,8G

Why this kit, I chose to walk? First Nikon D750 versatile reportage camera, which is also suitable for outdoor shooting, and landscape, and the main it is easy and surprisingly comfortable ergonomics. Lens 50 mm like and not very suitable for landscape photography, but this is a universal lens and I decided to experiment and shoot urban photography with it. Yes, there is quite difficult with a choice of view when shooting landscapes, but still can shoot.

Winter photography of Moscow – walk from the center of Taganka

View of the Taganskaya
View of the Taganskaya

Taganka

House with a wooden second floor
It seems simple house, but he second floor is wooden and painted – Why not plot.
Doorways and alleys
Alleys and gateway – very colorful pictures sometimes turn. Although, maybe it's just me.
near Vladimir Vysotsky Museum
near Vladimir Vysotsky Museum

 

Winter and icicles
Good, that the one-story house, and the icicles dangerous look.

 

Walk around Moscow
I like to walk through the quiet streets of Moscow. Even with the Stalinist skyscrapers seems, what about the phrase is true patriarchal Moscow. Although, why even – High-rise buildings in my opinion it is a symbol of patriarchy, if you think about the essence of the word.
Monasteries in Moscow
Now in Moscow, many working monasteries

Moscow City Photo

Moscow City Photo

walk in the winter Moscow
Old and relatively new in Moscow perfectly coexist – We got used to for so long.

 

rights violators
rights violators – street scene in the background of Moscow architecture
Message
Message on the wall opposite the house mistress – nothing new under the moon 🙂

 

Black and White City Photo
What to choose – black and white or color. In my opinion it does not matter. The main town itself.
Hitrovka
Khitrovka – I do not know, maybe it's this idea, but Khitrovka, as well as greater 100 years ago it looks the same shabby 🙂
stairs
A bit conceptual – just kidding, just like me are here Stairway to Heaven.
temples of Moscow
Sometimes in Moscow, you can find a very interesting temples, such as, This wooden domes.

 

The picture through the arch
Like an artistic idea – just a picture of the temple through the arch gate.

 

Moscow lanes
alleys

urban landscape

Graffiti
Really – what for?
wall
Just wall, but in my opinion, very colorful 🙂
At all, sometimes it seems, that you walk not in the center of Moscow, but somewhere in the deep province.
Old house
What kind of building is, I do not know, but very much.
Graffiti
I am not against graffiti, but there, where appropriate, And whether graffiti is appropriate here in the center of Moscow…………

That ended the walk. I think, it is worth repeating, but from another metro station.

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