who here considers themselves a 'street photographer'?

[Spanik]

Wouldn't even call myself a photographer. "A dude with a camera that tries hard to take a shot that maybe he'll enjoys looking at" is a better description. Once I'll master that I'll try to make a shot that I'll consider worthwile to show someone.

 

[thegman]

No, I don't really like street photography if I'm 100% honest. It's probably that I'm something of a misanthrope, and I don't really want pictures of people I don't know.

I do like pictures of urban landscapes though, urban decay, grungy streets etc. I just wish there were no people getting in the way.

 

[MikeAUS]

Yes. Don't shoot anything else. Just starting out last 6 months. Someone asked me what 'kit' I used. My answer was simple - Sony RX100 🙂 I avoid where possible the various 'Street Threads' at RFF, too many discouraging negative views, rules and what not ...

 

[TheGodParticle]

I am a moment capturer.

I capture various moments that take place at various locations with various tools.

I am also a gear whore.

:angel:

 

[daveleo]

Definitely no, for me. If I take a photo out in the street (a rare event) it's is never
to "capture a moment".
I am one of those guys who does not quite understand street photography, but
let's drop it there.

 

[StefanJozef]

I'm a street photographer. Really, it's all I'm interested in. I do other stuff, sometimes architecture, some trees and so on but it's street for me.

 

[kuvvy]

You're description Joe is probably the same as mine. I do shoot mainly street stuff but will cover events, protests etc. I would like to be more a documentary photographer but never really got round to doing it. I will take shots too of landscapes, building, objects etc and I was once a wedding shooter but when asked nowadays I say, I shoot street.

Paul

 

[Ming The Merciless]

Yes, I'm a street photographer.

 

[Tijmendal]

It's what I shoot mostly. Too a large extent out of necessity, but it's definitely one of my favorite things to shoot anyway. If I could shoot other 'genres' more, I definitely would. I LOVE landscape photography, but it's just something that's not really readily available where I live.

 

[sepiareverb]

No. I avoid people in my images as much as possible.

 

[Godfrey]

I don't consider myself a street photographer, but I enjoy doing street photography. Just as I don't consider myself a landscape photographer but I enjoy photographing the landscape.

It's a word game. ;-)

I think it's better to center your thoughts not on the pigeonhole of photographic category your work might fall into but on what you want to express in your photos.

G

 

[burancap]

No........

 

[maddoc]

... only with a Tri-X loaded Leica in my hands and a 35 mm lens mounted.

 

[rogue_designer]

For my personal work, I consider myself a street photographer.

 

[semilog]

Yup.

I do other stuff but getting out on the street keeps the metaphorical batteries charged.

 

[paulfish4570]

no. i do not like people enough to be a street photographer ...

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Being called a photographer is so confining...I roam around free. FREE! With a camera, of course. Usually on the streets (many of them are boulevards...they don't like to be called streets, they find the name so limiting in lane numbers).

The photography...photography is such a delimiting term, I call it image-capturing-creation...the image-capturing-creation on open-air traffic causeways is done more frequently than not while using my came...err...triggering the mechanisms engineered within the things I carry to fulfill the enterprise.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

so, that's a no?

Yes and No are too binary. 😉

 

[Spanik]

I feel better now that I see there are others also prefering photos without people in them.

 

[p.giannakis]

Yes, I feel I am.