Whether you’re traveling abroad or exploring the streets where you live, it’s important to have confidence when shooting street photography. Photographer, Pierre T. Lambert shares a few tips to help you confidently capture images that you’ll be proud of.
Street photography is one thing when you’re shooting in a familiar environment, such as a neighborhood you’ve frequented for years with familiar sights and faces. It can be another experience entirely to photograph people and places you’re not familiar with, especially when there’s a language barrier between you and your subject.
In today’s world, where cameras have become accessible to pretty much everyone, there are millions of images depicting street photography. With that comes some very good work and some very, very bad work. From my perspective, the more minds that are concentrated on the craft, the greater the variety is of the kinds of street photography produced. For example some photography may focus purely on being creative with light, whilst another wll have a strong eye for those humourous juxtapositions. I myself tend to drift through many sub-categories, having a preference for shooting what I am attracted to rather than finding that niche style.
Through all these approaches, how would I define a photograph, or set of photographs, as having meaning? For me, meaningful work is thought provoking and has you asking questions you strongly want the answers to. It tends not to be timeless, but rather gives an accurate overview of a certain period of time and the impacts certain decisions and values society was experiencing.
4Tea Journals Tells the Story of Animals Through Photojournalism
Cheryl: I’m a photojournalist and primarily follow people in my field. An animal person, I am naturally drawn to other photojournalists’ feeds that had animal images tucked in with their editorial work. Real life images that are a refreshing change from the IG hubs churning out choreographed cute overload repetitive imagery.
I felt that animals on these hubs were being dumbed down and portrayed as things to entertain instead of beautiful thinking beings.
These misrepresentations of animals on IG, images that did not encourage respect and compassion were the catalyst to create TJ.
5Censored images of 1930s America to go on show in London
Beautiful but mutilated images of rural America by some of the most famous photographers of the 20th century will soon go on display for the first time at the Whitechapel gallery in London.
Each of the photographs, printed for the first time, including works by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Russell Lee, bears an eerie black spot. The black circles – obliterating the entire face of a farmer in North Dakota, the right eye of a woman in Arkansas, or resembling an eclipsed sun hanging in the sky over labourers in Maryland – were created when the negatives were censored in the 1930s by clipping them with a metal punch.
As the name “odds” itself implies, the “rule of odds” suggests that in order to make a composition interesting and more focused, having an odd number of subjects in a frame is more interesting than having an even number of subjects.
Why? Because even numbers tend to create symmetry and also the human brain tends to pair even numbers.
However, this does not mean that you should not take photographs where there is an even number of subjects.
