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truckster Loc: Tampa Bay Area

Thank you Voss, through your pictures you are teaching me how to graduate from a picture taker to a photographer. I was just at a festival where I concentrated on getting the shot of the band instead of looking for the opportunities in the audience itself.

Voss

Thank you, , truckster. Actually, pictures are everywhere. It's just sometimes we have to look at things from a different perspective than we're used to. Keep up with the learning.

Apaflo Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

Voss borders on greatness with a fairly high percentage of the photographs he posts here!

The distinction you picked up on happens because there is a difference between Event Photography and our target in this section, Street Photography. Performers are typically photographed as part of Event Photography, but anything "staged" is nixed for Street Photography.

So it is as much a predetermined mind set of the camera operator as to which kind of images to take. Stage or street performers are targets for Event Photography. It is specifically the people and what they are doing, so that can usually also be called People Photography...

Street Photography tends more to capturing the intangible relationships between objects, which are commonly people, and the other objects around them... in a way that is a portrait of humanity or life, and not so much of specific people.

Hence once a photog gets into Street in a more than casual way, these other interesting views that Voss comes up with are indeed the whole point of looking for a photograph to make.

Of course there are multiple ways to accomplish the same thing! Garry Winogrand rather famously snapped a shot of anything and everything "just to see what it looks like photographed". Then much later he sorted through the rolls and rolls of film to find things that did look interesting when photographed. He made an effort to wait long enough to not really remember what he was thinking when a picture was taken. His judgement was about the print and not about his memory of the scene.

These interesting relationships are what makes Street Photography fun and diverse.

Voss

Apaflo, Couldn't help but to notice your conversation with truckster. Thank you for your kind words. I am most humbled. This group has been fun, and I've learned a lot from it.

Apaflo Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

But thank you! (For some really fascinating photography and all the interesting discussion that follows.)

rlaugh Loc: Michigan & Florida

Another interesting perspective...good job!!

Voss

Thanks, rlaugh.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Voss

Thanks, jaymatt.

truckster Loc: Tampa Bay Area

Thanks for your reply. I am learning a lot about this hobby of mine. I also have some great teachers by example here. I am starting to look at the world around me in a completely different light. I live not far from Disney World and I think the next trip there will not be about taking pictures of the flowers there, but the people around me. You are right, it is about the discerning eye. A trait that can be learned and perfected with practice.

Voss

Indeed, it can be. It just takes some conscious effort. You have the right mindset to succeed.

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

Good one, like it Voss

Don

Voss

Thanks, PAR4DCR.

HOT Texas Loc: From the Heart of Texas

Nice shot!!!!