Street photography has now become a full-fledged genre pictures, and maybe even art. With the last statement is debatable, but agree, that it is an art - to be able to receive the frame, that will appeal not only to the author photos, but also tens of, or even thousands of people.

So roam hundreds of cities and countries, armed with cameras of varying degrees of advancement. Someone usual soap dish, and someone to carry a camera, value comparable to quite a good car. They remind hunters, tracking down prey. Extraction of street photography - a freeze-frame of your life, your emotions, not very important or event. maybe, What do you want, who took the photographer, a minute later forget about fleeting fact in his life, but all will be in the picture.

Tip One: Street Photography is democratic and absolutely undemanding to technology. Never mind, what your camera. the main thing – what and how you're shooting. You can do street photography, without the camera does. Modern smart phones allow you to make good shots.

That takes a street photographer and what genre of Street Photo

If a long time not to talk, the street photography - it's about people's lives and the people themselves, with their joys and grief, with their thoughts and feelings. This street, but the streets are not empty, and filled with people, movement. On the motion - when we say the word "movement", more often than not imagine someone walking or riding, flying. In fact, the movement - is a broader concept. The idea - is also a movement. Only inanimate objects are static by themselves. As the death - it is too static.

In the last century there was such a fashion - pictures of dead relatives, giving them a living posture. These pictures look horrible - it is an imitation of life, and it is unnatural. Death does not move - this is the end, deadlock. Any life – dynamic. Any living object is dynamic, even if it just stands and smokes:

Sometimes referred to as street photography any city in pictures. This is not true. There is a very clear division of the city skyline and street photos. urban landscape, which I'll discuss in the next article, – it is a separate genre of photography, where the protagonist is the city itself, its architecture, Landscape. Street the photograph - it is primarily people. Never mind, a person is walking, riding a bicycle or car, just standing, thinking - man protagonist Street photos. Difference, As you can see, there is. In one case, the main subject is a human creature, in the other - the man himself.

The main feature of street photography

Street Photography - a complete lack of staging. You do not cook pad, You do not force their models get there somehow, to adopt such a posture, smile or cry. You do not even know, who will be your model, and that he or she will make a second. He may cry, and can laugh, and may notice you and send to hell, but still come after you with a very naughty desires.

Tip two: Taking off on the street, Use telephoto lenses or compact cameras with high magnification. The main thing in street photography – this is a natural, and what is natural, when you know, that you removed. You always expect, that say cheese. This is, at best,, and at worst - people are strongly opposed, to be removed. therefore, better to shoot from a distance, armed with good optics.

Someone to remove and what events to capture

someone shoot? Complex and at the same time a simple question, which can give a definite answer - the people. People, man, man or woman, children or one child. No matter who. Important – how and at what point. Here we come to the main point - the time of shooting. When to press the button, and when it is not necessary. Here the question is not only in shooting technique, but there is also the aesthetic aspects, and ethical. lot of questions, and most of them do not have a clear answer. Each photographer decides for himself. Are people shooting at funeral, grieving or not, shoot whether the expression of feelings of love, fury, aggression or not to shoot. What converge all street photographers - you can record the moments of joy and happiness. Is it worth it to take the joy of alcoholic, bought a bottle or just been sober or the satisfaction of a job well done mistress, just to slaughter a chicken for dinner? Complicated. I repeat once again - every photographer decides for himself, It is permissible, and what does not.

Tip three: If you want to get a strong frame, it is best to take on holidays or some events. People in such moments more emotional and less constrain ourselves. Watch people on the street party - they liberated, think less about, how do they look. More emotions - the best photos.

when the shoot

Any time of the day. You are limited only by technical parameters of its equipment. You can shoot in the afternoon, morning or at night. It does not matter. the main thing, that you can see the, that you want to remove. but in general,, it is better, when there is good lighting - it can be a sun, Street lights. Otherwise, noise may damage your image. Although, sometimes adding special noise. But, Still it is worth remembering, that the less light, the longer your shutter speed and higher ISO. And remember, that the less light, so your picture will be more noisy or oiled, or maybe both will make a picture in an incomprehensible mess, mesivo. Can, of course, then say, that this idea so, and they say I see the world. But we are not talking about painting, and Photo, which records the event. Event, not your state of mind.

Color or black and white picture - which is better?

Different photographers notions of color are very different. Someone thinks, that street photography should only be black and white, someone makes, that the street can be a color photo. In fact, the color is not important. Color is not an end in itself and not a canon. Important story and what you want to emphasize. Let us think - what color. Color - this is our subjective perception of the reflected light beam from objects. For the man is not of the same color - everyone perceives colors differently. Pink or red - this is understandable, but there are details. Details are important or not important? God knows. There are only two colors, that we perceive the same - black and white. Even color-blind do not confuse these colors. I.e, if you want to, to all the people saw the same picture in color, the black-and-white photography is preferable. But it's not even, how we perceive color, and in the story and in the, that we want to pass. Here is an example. We shoot lifter during a push or hold weight. cores are strained, face reddens, eyes popping, his face tense. What do you want to transfer? If only the emotional tension, the best black-and-white version. the viewer's eye is not distracted by the color of the face or the hands of the athlete. And if you want to pass a physical strain, the color picture is more appropriate - the color is perfectly conveys our physical condition.

noticed, that strong public emotions better transmitted is a color photo. Black and white photo reveals the same, that people sometimes want to hide. maybe, that this is a wrong impression, but there was something in it, in my opinion.

Tip four: Shoot in color. Then, when processing photos will be dismantled, what's better. When you take pictures on the street, just can not understand, What are you lifted. But the processing of pictures already have the time to consider and reflect.

About the composition of street photography

When we are shooting in the studio or do a family photo, we create, We construct reality and cram into it people. I.e, we create the reality of their perceptions about, how it should look. Street Photography - is another. We did not create the world, and we just watched him and fix events in the real world, independent of our ideas about it. Street photographer not a builder, he observer. Attentive, endowed with imagination, but the observer. Note, that conceiving the plot, we can choose a location, shooting point, adjust the focus - sit in ambush.

There are two categories of photographers. One can be compared with the usual hunter, who wanders through the forest itself and looks out on the branches of game. maybe, that he was only a couple of crows will fall, and may be caught and valuable fur animal. the main thing, not to fox. Other - this sniper, Carefully choose the place, from which the shot will be made. In the first case, a successful composition - a matter of chance, second, Sooner or later someone will fall in the selected frame.

And what is better - to wander around the city in search of a plot or choice of place and time, and expectation? It is hard to say. It all depends on what is happening around. Let me explain. You have decided to replenish its portfolio newlyweds photos, and the wedding you still do not invite. Fine. think, and where these are found most newlyweds? In Moscow, there are several places, where on weekends you are sure to find a couple of weddings - Patriarchal bridge itself Christ the Savior Cathedral, Caricino, Kolomenskoye, Gum. Now we solve, and what we need entourage. Next business equipment - arrive at the place and choose point shooting - sooner or later, but the young will fall to us in the frame. The photographer will only have to press a button, when a couple of honeymooners or the whole gay wedding close to the point, we chose to shoot.

That is better suited for shooting – open space, pipe or brick walls around. It absolutely does not matter.

Somebody think, that street photography - is zero processing and the lack of crop. In my opinion - this is wrong. Crop the photo, you can, and sometimes necessary. A good outdoor photos have a story. Let not invented and orchestrated, but the story is still present. Life itself presents stories for our shots. And there is nothing terrible in, that we cut too much, that does not fit into our story. The main thing is not to cut something important, that would dilute our image and make it impersonal.

That is all. thoughts ran. But this is not the end, but only the beginning, and to be continued.