Street Photography Tip 10

Camera : Fujifilm X-Pro2

Exposure Time: 1/250 sec

F-Number: f/8.0

Exposure Program: Manual

ISO Speed Rating: 200

Street Photography is candid and no discussion on this.

Yes, I know: there are so considered street photography masters who made it and make it staged all the time. And they give workshops they even give workshops showing how they stage a situation. So we see legs and arms entering in the frame in a complex composition that is impossible to obtain if you don’t stage it. You know what? That's not street photography. Call it other ways, but not street photography, please.

I say a thing: I made this photo yesterday. And now I also tell you how I did it: previsualization of the scene. The potential subjects were distant and in profile from me as I passed where the monument is. I decided to cross the street and I positioned myself and shot in seconds. One photograph and go. That’s it.

A clarification: I have nothing against working the scene. Sometimes I do it. But I don't intervene. To stage a photo in street photography can lead you to be popular, even to be considered a master of the genre, make you become a judge of awards and give very expensive workshops, but the real juice of street photography is making the fair game: candid, spontaneous, in a word…REAL. And only in this way you will become a good street photographer.