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These are of course just my own opinions based on street photography I see posted around various websites on the internet.
Mobile phone pictures. Seriously, I really wish street photographers would stop taking photos of people on their phones. Yes, phones are ubiquitous and it's difficult to find someone not on their phone these days. But these phone pictures are everywhere I look and are incredibly boring. It's ok and sometimes unavoidable to include people on their phones in some instances, particularly if the photo has something interesting about it. But mostly I'm seeing photos of a person looking at their phone and I'm thinking, there's absolutely nothing interesting to see at here.
Creativity. Get creative, challenge yourself, raise your game. Look for interesting angles, interesting subject matter, rhythm, energy, composition and maybe even an interesting juxtaposition. Too many lazy photos of someone on their phone or people doing absolutely nothing to hold the viewers interest for more than a second and then they're posted to a thousand Flickr groups to get likes.
Flickr Explore. Sorry to say but making 'Explore' is actually meaningless. I used to think it was exciting to make Explore and some measure of my ability, but now realise that it has nothing to do with the quality of our photos. It's just some strange algorithm that doesn't actually discern a good photo from a boring or bad photo and it randomly makes selections.
Overprocessing. I see a lot of photos converted to black and white, vignettes and all sorts of trickery added. A good picture will stand on its own. No amount of processing will make a bad or uninteresting photo good. As the saying goes, you can't polish a ..
What do you guys think? I know my points sound harsh but it's what I've learned during my own experiences of doing street photography. I feel my photography has grown as a result of being tougher on myself, being more discerning of what I think is worth shooting, what I think should be deleted, and what I think is worth posting. I think everyone doing street photography should be more discerning before posting and stop to think, is my picture interesting?
Do you agree with any of my points?
Mobile phone pictures. Seriously, I really wish street photographers would stop taking photos of people on their phones. Yes, phones are ubiquitous and it's difficult to find someone not on their phone these days. But these phone pictures are everywhere I look and are incredibly boring. It's ok and sometimes unavoidable to include people on their phones in some instances, particularly if the photo has something interesting about it. But mostly I'm seeing photos of a person looking at their phone and I'm thinking, there's absolutely nothing interesting to see at here.
Creativity. Get creative, challenge yourself, raise your game. Look for interesting angles, interesting subject matter, rhythm, energy, composition and maybe even an interesting juxtaposition. Too many lazy photos of someone on their phone or people doing absolutely nothing to hold the viewers interest for more than a second and then they're posted to a thousand Flickr groups to get likes.
Flickr Explore. Sorry to say but making 'Explore' is actually meaningless. I used to think it was exciting to make Explore and some measure of my ability, but now realise that it has nothing to do with the quality of our photos. It's just some strange algorithm that doesn't actually discern a good photo from a boring or bad photo and it randomly makes selections.
Overprocessing. I see a lot of photos converted to black and white, vignettes and all sorts of trickery added. A good picture will stand on its own. No amount of processing will make a bad or uninteresting photo good. As the saying goes, you can't polish a ..
What do you guys think? I know my points sound harsh but it's what I've learned during my own experiences of doing street photography. I feel my photography has grown as a result of being tougher on myself, being more discerning of what I think is worth shooting, what I think should be deleted, and what I think is worth posting. I think everyone doing street photography should be more discerning before posting and stop to think, is my picture interesting?
Do you agree with any of my points?