Street Photography Tip 19

Make your way of working a virtue of your visual proposition.

When I am on the street I use to work with zone focus. In addition to this I am a photographer who moves fast and thinks in a fraction of a second the best solution, but also that shooting is a priority sometimes rather than accommodating everything. I remember where the focus distance ring is positioned, but clearly I can still be wrong about my position relative to the subject.

When I decided to take this photo I did it without stopping, otherwise the subject would have reacted and I would have lost that expression there and I judged that she would have been blurry even better. And I prefer the image exactly in that way.

If she was completely in focus you could think it was even a staged photograph and is not. If I want to make a portrait I do it, but on the street I want something different. When it comes to street photography we have to learn how the imperfection can be an added value that contributes to give personality and consistence to our work.