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Devin Bro
You know what frustrates me?
"It's not good for shooting street"
"I only shoot street"
"Street photography"
"It will be great for those who do street"
It sounds rediculous!
Hello, My name is Devin, I'm a street carpenter, I only work with wood on the street, my Estwing 16oz hammer is ideal for street carpentry, but my sledge is just to bulky and people really notice how large it is when I'm hammering wood in the street.
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I love my cameras (tools) and taking photos is the product of my love. I couldnt care less about anyone's opinion of my photos. I am not a photographer! I am an Artist with many tools.
Why is this such a fad these days? "Street"
"It's not good for shooting street"
"I only shoot street"
"Street photography"
"It will be great for those who do street"
It sounds rediculous!
Hello, My name is Devin, I'm a street carpenter, I only work with wood on the street, my Estwing 16oz hammer is ideal for street carpentry, but my sledge is just to bulky and people really notice how large it is when I'm hammering wood in the street.
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I love my cameras (tools) and taking photos is the product of my love. I couldnt care less about anyone's opinion of my photos. I am not a photographer! I am an Artist with many tools.
Why is this such a fad these days? "Street"
skopar steve
Well-known
Because rangefinder cameras are good tools for street photography?
kxl
Social Documentary
To borrow the words of US SC Justice Potter Stewart in Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964):
"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it..."
IMHO, people in general (I won't say all) have a desire to categorize things to make them easier to describe or explain. I consider "street photography" as such a category.
"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it..."
IMHO, people in general (I won't say all) have a desire to categorize things to make them easier to describe or explain. I consider "street photography" as such a category.
Arbitrarium
Well-known
Just another buzzword to draw in the easily-influenced and those desperate to be part of a clique.
But as a genre of photography it's as good a word as any for urban, people-focused photography.
However, yeah... describing one camera as being better or worse for street (sorry) photography is a load of garbage.
But as a genre of photography it's as good a word as any for urban, people-focused photography.
However, yeah... describing one camera as being better or worse for street (sorry) photography is a load of garbage.
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Devin Bro
I made no mention of "Rangefinder Cameras"
This is a fad I see on EVERY video about a new camera.
It's apparently a new criteria for manufacturers.
I like Urban over Street to categorize photos.
Couldn't agree more! Any camera will take a photo on the street (so my front yard?)
This is a fad I see on EVERY video about a new camera.
It's apparently a new criteria for manufacturers.
I like Urban over Street to categorize photos.
Couldn't agree more! Any camera will take a photo on the street (so my front yard?)
Ko.Fe.
Lenses 35/21 Gears 46/20
If you are sitting in the noisy room it doesn't mean what the rest of the world is same about....
Why I'm taking street pictures and it doesn't frustrates me, I don't know. Perhaps, because I get chance to do it only few times per year. And I like pictures of people taken on the street. Isn't it weird? I know, check RFF Gallery, most of the views are for naked ladies. But I'm watching pictures of dressed people on the streets instead. It must be so weird these days.
Actually it was the real "fad" way before these days. Watch interview with Winogrand and documentray about Meyerowitz. Available on youtube. Taken in eighties. It was broadcasted nation wide. What is the street now, these days if without them? Some digital noise on FB and forums. IMO.
Why I'm taking street pictures and it doesn't frustrates me, I don't know. Perhaps, because I get chance to do it only few times per year. And I like pictures of people taken on the street. Isn't it weird? I know, check RFF Gallery, most of the views are for naked ladies. But I'm watching pictures of dressed people on the streets instead. It must be so weird these days.
Actually it was the real "fad" way before these days. Watch interview with Winogrand and documentray about Meyerowitz. Available on youtube. Taken in eighties. It was broadcasted nation wide. What is the street now, these days if without them? Some digital noise on FB and forums. IMO.
back alley
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why street?
why not?
why not?
css9450
Veteran
robert blu
quiet photographer
I use my cameras in the streets, squares and avenues. In the mountains and by the sea. In my house and in other houses. Sometimes in churches rarely in theaters.
If the photos are good or not it's more due to the photographer I'm than the camera I use
robert
If the photos are good or not it's more due to the photographer I'm than the camera I use
robert
Archlich
Well-known
It has became another cliche that's been half-intentionally constructed so you could conveniently fit yourself in to flow with the tide. Not so much different from Lomography I'd say, just with different instruments to use, different idols to follow.
Shoot like Moriyama...buy products named like "Streetpan" (clever marketing that one is)...it's easy to get into that identity.
Meanwhile tonnes of established photographers who work primarily in the streets refuse to call themselves "street photographer". Not a coincidence I say.
Shoot like Moriyama...buy products named like "Streetpan" (clever marketing that one is)...it's easy to get into that identity.
Meanwhile tonnes of established photographers who work primarily in the streets refuse to call themselves "street photographer". Not a coincidence I say.
Ko.Fe.
Lenses 35/21 Gears 46/20
Almost every new video I have seen about new camera is the fad. One fad generator would describe tele lens as great street photography lens. Another fad creator would talk about AF as the street photogaphy impressive tool.
"Urban"? No.
Do tell me how candid taken on remote village street in Tibet is not the street, because it is not urban area, but rural. They build this street in the middle on the mountain before any photography was exist. And their street life hasn't changed as it changed in cities where cameras reviews are consumed most. One street alive vs no streets with life.
finguanzo
Well-known
I call it walking photography.
Although I do stand still when I actually take the picture...
never mind.
Although I do stand still when I actually take the picture...
never mind.
back alley
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this seems to be a recurring topic on rff lately...such a deep seated animosity towards 'street photography'...
i have tried all styles of photography over the years...wedding/commercial...did lots of 'bad' photos...sports, did skiers for awhile...lots of musicians at our local folk music festival...and lots of 'street' shooting...it's my favourite...i like walking, i like sneaking up on people and i like watching people go about their business without a thought given to me. i'm 65 years old and i picked up my first good camera when i was 19 or so...and 'street' was an acknowledged style of shooting back then. it's not new or trendy...some of the photographers doing it may be new and trendy but the style has been around for a long time.
i have tried all styles of photography over the years...wedding/commercial...did lots of 'bad' photos...sports, did skiers for awhile...lots of musicians at our local folk music festival...and lots of 'street' shooting...it's my favourite...i like walking, i like sneaking up on people and i like watching people go about their business without a thought given to me. i'm 65 years old and i picked up my first good camera when i was 19 or so...and 'street' was an acknowledged style of shooting back then. it's not new or trendy...some of the photographers doing it may be new and trendy but the style has been around for a long time.
css9450
Veteran
I think its the term "street" that is the problem. Maybe a better name for it would be "people" photography. Different from portraits; but in my opinion a better name than "street".
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Devin Bro
No animosity towards street photography/urban photography here,
I just do not go through those lengths of categorizing my photos... yet maybe.
As the OP, I am just annoyed by how much its thrown out there as a criteria in gear mongering. I love to watch videos but when someone starts spouting Rangefinder viewfinder and street this or that its kind of shameful. Using potatoes to describe tomatoes all while buzzing about where the soil is? but never actually giving a fruit.
Again, my opinion, not the norm. Some good comments here!
I just do not go through those lengths of categorizing my photos... yet maybe.
As the OP, I am just annoyed by how much its thrown out there as a criteria in gear mongering. I love to watch videos but when someone starts spouting Rangefinder viewfinder and street this or that its kind of shameful. Using potatoes to describe tomatoes all while buzzing about where the soil is? but never actually giving a fruit.
Again, my opinion, not the norm. Some good comments here!
Roger Hicks
Veteran
Possibly the best collection of responses I've ever seen: diverse, but for the most part very much to the point.
Cheers,
R.
Cheers,
R.
I walk the streets and photograph but many wouldn't consider it street because it doesn't fit into the narrow definition the internet has of street photography.
tunalegs
Pretended Artist
You'll find the term used in these ways mostly when somebody has something to sell.
People who actually go out and take pictures have generally found out that there is no "one best" camera or approach to take when doing so on the street. And people who've done it long enough know it would be pretty boring if there was. Street as a genre is so vaguely defined that it makes an excellent buzzword for marketing equipment or photos though.
Some people seem to have missed the point of the original post, it's not a criticism of genre itself, just the silly overuse of the word "street" in reference to anything even vaguely relating to photography. What ever happened to the word candid?
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Devin Bro
NeonKnight
Established
I think documentary could be a good way to describe street photos. I see a lot of images labeled street that really don't have a punchline but do a good job documenting the scene.