What's so great about street photography?

What is it that makes street photography so appealing? What is it about taking pictures in ordinary everyday public spaces that is so addictive?
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[@rupertvandervell]

Great comments. Some very interesting feedback!

[@martingreenberg870]

I was on YT one night ~15 years ago. I had never seen street photography before. I saw it and fell in love. I saw the images and thought I could do that. Turns out I can do that. Maybe not well but I can. I can be an artist and get exercise at the same time. I have had my eyes opened. I had never seen juxtaposition and now I see it all the time. I see colors, lines, and shapes I can capture. It is great knowing that people are entertaining me all the time and they don’t even know it. It is satisfying knowing even my not so good images, which amount for 95-98% of my images, may be valuable. Was looking at Ernst Haas’ most recent book (he died ~10 years ago and he is still printing books full of images) NewYork in the 50s & 60s. Besides creating beautiful images, he was documenting a place and time. I remember the buses and taxis being the colors that were in these images they no longer look that way. I can capture history just by pressing my shutter, having the image in focus, and having the image probably exposed. Pretty neat. Glad I discovered street photography. Mask On Nurse Marty (Ret)

[@itsjorgieeSF]

Street photography is the greatest style of photography because it has all the elements you need to make the an interesting photo. It’s also the most challenging there are so many styles to master and you have zero control of whats happening real time. It’s easy to take a picture of a plant that’s standing still in comparison a moment you need to capture in a snap of a second, adding layers, shadows, colors, composition, reflections and people rejecting you or moving subjects. It’s the greatest and most challenging!

[@charlieribeiro6343]

Totally agree. It hones one's eye and also sharpens one's skill with a camera. I enjoy all aspects of photography, but it's street that's close to my heart.

[@GS-vb3zn]

I’ve heard the argument before- “street photography isn’t really art”. It’s silly statement. ALL photography can be art. It’s just in the result. I have a landscape photographer “friend” who has made this argument to me a few times. And if he spent less time working on teasing out dramatic looking skies from ordinary cloud banks in Lightroom and devoted more time to composition he might have a shot at creating art.

[@killahbong]

I found street photography as cure for my social anxiety. While other people minding their own business, there you are hoping to catch the extraordinary feel good moment.

[@Cwati]

As far as I remember, I have decided to do street photography when I first saw your Flickr account, Rupert. I guess that’s why any content from you has always a special taste. Thanks for your channel!

[@tedcrosby9361]

I look for what I call design structure in my photography. Using the elements of design such as line, shape, rhythm, texture, harmony etc, and bringing them together in a structured composition. Having a background in design has helped me. My challenge is to find order in the chaotic world of the city.

[@jresin_photo]

I'm an introvert and being out with the camera on the streets gives me a feeling of being in control with behind the camera. I Don't even mind when people comes up and talk to me, without the camera though... Besides that i feel like the streets is to me what the lake is for the fisherman or the forrest is to the hunter. Buildings are my forrest or lake and the people are the animals (figuratively speaking).

[@kipmay5101]

I love your images, commentary and edifying philosophy and approach.

[@atticustay1]

Sreet and documentary photography are by far the most interesting types of photography

[@ernestthomas9406]

all you have said in this video is true, that's why I now call my street photography urban photography because of my changes in opportunity & interest

[@steevewhitehead1416]

I just really started doing -street, this weekend, weather was a little wet which I felt lent itself to black and white capture, which was also a first as I usually do color. Got about 12 good keepers, the wet really brings up the contrast. Photographed a middle aged couple having breakfast by making it look like I was getting a nearby perspective of the surrounding rained on tables. I don't think I'm ready for any right up close in your face candid shots just yet, but we'll see how the people react as we get closer to them. I really enjoyed it, I'm not often a person who heads into the city, but I can see street photography becoming my reason to do so.

[@simonogden4522]

Thanks Rupert, I’m new to photography and really enjoy your craft and your uploads.

[@channamasala]

So glad to have found this high quality channel. Thank you for sharing your experiences and insights alongside the effort and energy to create these meaningful and carefully considered videos. 👍🏻📷

[@AleRosafa]

Great video and rationale, Rupert! Tks!

[@pulsevlog]

Loved the vid.

[@johnbullock8885]

I honestly wish I never discovered street photography. I’m not nearly as good at it as I want to be. In fact, I kind of suck, but I can’t focus on any other genre now. I am obsessed with gaining skill and knowledge in this particular genre. I work the regular 5 days a week, live in a small town and have kids with all the responsibilities that come along with them and being an adult. I simply do not have the time. I get to hit the actual streets (which I now live an hour away from) maybe once a month if I’m lucky. No one can progress at that speed

[@simonbnyc]

Some great observations to which I can relate! There are those moments when an unbelievably perfect scenario suddenly materializes in front of me and I'm convinced something will mess it up. Well, it can't possibly go right can it? That beautiful light will vanish or that person will move. But miraculously, none of those things happen and the shot is captured. I guess it's the thrill of the hunt with a camera.

[@comelachapelle8337]

Excellent video once more. Very interesting and pleasant. Thank you Rupert.

[@johanp8391]

Excellent, thank you.

[@scotskinner4350]

I'm kinda new at street photography. Recently I realized several days later, thinking back on my last photography walk, that I missed an opportunity for a great street photo. I beat myself up over that for a few days.

[@jimphilpott902]

You continue to give insight into street photography. Another good video!

[@KevinBrown-iy3xl]

This is another interesting and insightful video on the subject. I would love to do more street photography, and I can see your style / signature as clear as day and I love it. Finding nicely dressed people can be quite a challenge today as well. They don't have to be of course, but that's part of your vibe that I appreciate.

[@oneeyedphotographer]

If you concentrate on the well-dressed, you a painting a dreadfully inaccurate picture of life on the street. Perhaps I'd photograph His Toffyness King Charles if he happened by, but the dero sleeping outside Number Ten would be more interesting.

[@KevinBrown-iy3xl]

@@oneeyedphotographer For me it's not a documentary thing. I would not photograph a down and out no matter what the cause or reason because I would not want to add even a tiny bit to their woes, and that might when seen by those who know the subject.

[@christinekemp6020]

This was great. So well articulated. Love your channel!

[@Swaggiechickenz]

I'm glad I came across this video. Thank you.

[@danielxwp]

I've been using my camera for over ten years now taking pictures of all kinds, but I am now generally interested in photography only.

[@WatchDSSID]

Excellent video - thanks

[@tonyklein6499]

Thank you Rupert. I really enjoy listening to your perspective and approach. Street photography is very difficult and incredibly rewarding. Nonetheless, with each shot there’s a lesson to be learned about lighting, composition, exposure, etc. As with most everything in life I suppose, the more we practice it, the better we are in executing the images we discover and create. I don’t view my photography as storytelling, but as capturing a moment in life that communicates an emotion or an interpersonal experience in the life of my subjects.

[@oneeyedphotographer]

A portrait is a cooperation between subject and photographer. Whacking your camera in someone's face is not portraiture at all, because the subject offers no cooperation. It, however, the height of rudeness, and has nothing to do with life on the street. To properly portray life on the street, you must be there, ut be unseen. Street photography is about people, a document of moments in their lives. I do a lot of urban photography, basically anything I see in the street from cracks in the pavement, in walls. I photograph buildings, cars, carparks. Sometimes, but not always, the people in my photograph matter. Occasionally, if I'm sprung, I will make a portrait, where I have a willing partner. An example, a woman had just finished playing a piano in the street when I happened along, and I asked her to play a little longer. Since she was under my direction, and despite doing exactly what she had a few moments before, this is a portrait.

[@victorcarmelo8606]

Another excellent video, thank you.

[@franklee6452]

@ 6.51 Something special about that one...

[@raulslorencis158]

Thanks! To be honest, I still don't know what street photography is for me, but I only need to press the shutter release button once and the next shots start to make sense by themselves. Warning to others - this stuff is addictive.

[@sandynichols5840]

I'm definitely a fan of yours!. I follow you here on KZbin and Instagram, love your street photography, and have your book. However, I'm very disappointed that out of your videos on the masters whose work influenced yours, there are no female masters mentioned. As a street photographer myself and someone who's creating a course on the history of street photography, I think it's important to widen the net when educating an audience about photography. Thus, I would love to learn about female masters you admire.

[@MilleIdeAlex]

Nice|

[@mgiaco52]

What hurts street photography is today there are so many people taking poor quaility photos and calling themselves street photographers. There are is ton of really good photographers out there taking great street photographs but also a lot of bad ones too. You see a lot of bad ones on line snapping away with no thought as to what they are taking photos of and just because they have a Leica they think they are a good street photohrapher.

[@AustenGoldsmithPhotography]

At which point is street photography not street photography ? If I take a photo of people on the beach or in a field is it landscape or street ? Is concrete a prerequisite ?

[@paololarocca7684]

wonderful video, great portrait that of the bag lady, what focal length is that?

[@rupertvandervell]

28mm Zuiko lens, gave it a little distortion close up.

[@paololarocca7684]

that's interesting, you must have been quite close to her...

[@StanleyKubick1]

and I'd never hang around a field or forest photographing geographical features, so there

[@anils.rkumar6551]

U talk a LOT Buddy