7 Street Photography Tips - The Raw Approach

[@MikhailPin]

Thanks for the right words in the video, you've inspired me to take more action!

[@RobertVE3VPL]

I've been truly enjoying your recent videos. It's good to get away from gear talk.

[@ForsgardPeter]

Glad you like them! That is my plan. I will talk a lot less about gear in the future. Of course sometimes it might in place. After all we need gear to make photographs, so it is a part of photography.

[@simplexj4298]

Great video - thanks a lot! It really inspired me to start into street photography, and some 'raw' ideas are coming to life, adding a new dimension to my usual experience of nature and landscape.

[@themostar7426]

Peter, this video is amazing content, thank you for sharing your wisdom and feeling. The photos you shared are top notch.

[@ForsgardPeter]

Thank you very much.

[@joshuaweinberg0000]

Thanks for this video. One of your best. Please do more like this. I could even imagine you doing one that’s the exact opposite of this- because I think what you’re saying: this approach important sometimes… but other approaches are important other times. So phooey to anyone who says you’re wrong about this advice.

[@ForsgardPeter]

I most likely will do a lot more of this type of content.

[@jacktsang1201]

Thanks for making me miss Helsinki again (I visited there this February) I even order dinner once at the booth at 00:44 when i was there

[@zoomento]

Great advice! Over thinking is a real buzz kill!

[@gordon3988]

Some great advice… I really enjoyed one of the first photos of the lock. Something about the colours and bokeh just resonated for me!

[@ForsgardPeter]

Thanks.

[@framednsnapped]

Traces of humans is a great approach, especially for those who are not in a busy city. It could be a form of still life on the streets. Great idea, I have been doing it for a long time. Some of the traces of human pictures are my favorite ones.

[@richardpriestley477]

Peter - Some welcome and very interesting ideas and techniques to ponder and try.

[@ForsgardPeter]

Many thanks.

[@daviddyephotography]

ignore the gatekeepers become friends with YOUR vision in order for composition and subject matter to become a reflexive response

[@ForsgardPeter]

Well said.

[@Maine_Focus]

I have noticed I think a lot, even plan most of my street photography but when searching through social media photos the ones I like are chosen by my gut reaction. Thanks. I never thought to use my gut to shoot. Guess I need to learn to get out of my head. Sometimes the best way to know you learned something is when you can comfortably forget the “lesson”.

[@ForsgardPeter]

Give it a try and see where it tales you. It might be something you enjoy and get good results or it might be something for you.

[@regicruz93]

Lovely! Hope to bump into you while doing street photography in Helsinki! 👌

[@ForsgardPeter]

That would be cool! Let's make that happen?

[@regicruz93]

@@ForsgardPeter would definitely look forward to that! 🫶

[@sebastianop.3052]

Free your mind and forget everything l yes I agree. The photo I like the most in my portfolio are the one I shoot in this mode, see it and shoot. I don't know why but is in this way.

[@petermcginty3636]

Thank you Peter, great video. I recently bought an E-M1 Mki and some Olympus OM mount lenses. I will use this setup to get an older look for my digital photography. However, recently, I have been thinking of also using this setup for B&W Street photography. Many thanks, Peter. 🎉🎉🎉

[@ForsgardPeter]

Black & white sounds good.

[@walkingmanvideo9455]

I agree that many of us seem to go out and photograph what we think others will like. When I am on holidays, I photograph for memories, keepsakes of the trip to enjoy years later. When I go out to take photos in the city, I find myself looking for compositions that I feel others would like and appreciate. I find when doing this I come home with far less photos than on a holiday. We should avoid this issue of shooting for others admiration.

[@joanarling]

Misunderstanding of the week -- I thaught this was about the raw format... Still, I am glad to have found this video which is educational (for s.o. new to street photography) and entertaining as well. Thank you!

[@ForsgardPeter]

Sorry about that. I am glad that you still found this video interesting.

[@nigelalexander1594]

Certainly I like the RAW” approach also like the idea of digging out my old film camera!. Question with this approach are you looking at your digital images after each composition?

[@ForsgardPeter]

No, I usually do not look that ofter. It depends if there is not going to be some movement I might. If somtehing is happening I won't check the images until the things are over.

[@thomaschamberlin2485]

Olga Karlovac is a photographer that showed me the potential of out of focus images. She uses a Ricoh GR camera, but keeps destroying them because she likes to photograph in the rain and snow.

[@ForsgardPeter]

I need to check her out.

[@janvirtanen9110]

Every time you feel like theres a photo. Take it. But still compose it well. Shoot close. Not too far. Is my advice.

[@ForsgardPeter]

Good advice. If you see or pay attention to something it is worth photographing.

[@lorenschwiderski]

Having shot film, back in the day, I likely take fewer photos than most people having shot only digital. I stop at times from pulling the trigger, as I know what it will look like in the frame, as in how the camera lens is viewing it, will not be the same as the eye of man, nor the emotion involved. I will pull the trigger on shots against the sun I would never consider with film, as the digital is forgiving. I am just saying if you grew up in a time when a photo actually cost something to take, or you just knew the shot is not going to work in film, you hold-off taking the shot. Garry Winogrand took images to see what they would look like on film. I guess we do that. Seems to me the capture of the moment in time, and the human condition is more important to the street, but then again, I get what Garry said. Henri Cartier-Bresson captured humanity in great ways, while also working the geometry / composition out well. Shooting with heart and mind is a good thing. As you mentioned, shooting more is a good thing, but more so for those starting out in photography, or out on the street. Sort out what really works and what is not so great, and stop doing the junk shots. Yea, like you really can 😏 I still fall for the light from behind the leafs fluttering about, fully knowing it is a motion picture. It is also well beyond the ability of the human eye to discern subtle light differences, but I still fall for it. Thanks for the video, Loren

[@lerssilarsson6414]

Aleksanterinkatu? Hmm... no ATM-skimmer installation this time ;-?

[@ForsgardPeter]

Not that I know of.

[@j-marie4006]

Graffiti is certainly universal lol.

[@ForsgardPeter]

Yes and it looks the same everywhere.

[@GoGoGoRunRunRun]

I moved from a city with really nice graffiti, many big pieces, some even iconic (you often see them on tv as b-roll) to a city with squiggly lines on every other building a few years ago. 😅

[@mrN3w7]

I've been thinking with my gut for a while now... all it got me was fat...

[@belaacs5238]

"Don't worry too much about what you photograph and how to photograph, just fire away". " Do not overthink your composition"? Isn't it meaningless or pointless picture-taking?

[@ForsgardPeter]

Not necessarily. Overthinking can become a block. Just photographing will free the photographer from convention etc.

[@walydna0405]

Just shoot candid street photography....... street photography not on studio

[@ForsgardPeter]

What do you mean?

[@walydna0405]

It mean need not to plan too much on the street I personally only plan where to go before I go out not on the field....