{"id":108251,"date":"2018-08-08T08:35:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T15:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=108251"},"modified":"2018-08-08T08:35:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T15:35:47","slug":"courage-over-skill-in-street-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/08\/courage-over-skill-in-street-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Courage over Skill in Street Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear friend,<\/p>\n

A simple idea I wanted to share with you: focus on building your courage and bravery in photography and life; don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worry too much about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153skill\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n

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\"Sketch<\/p>\n

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This is my thinking:<\/p>\n

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  1. You can control how courageous you are in street photography <\/li>\n
  2. You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really control your \u00e2\u20ac\u0153skill\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in street photography <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The more I think about street photography, the more I recognize this fact:<\/p>\n

    \n Street photography is so dramatically different from all the other genres of photography!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    \"Lisbon<\/p>\n

    Why? I think 80% of street photography is having courage to take photos! Of course we also need skill in terms of composition and framing, but still \u00e2\u20ac\u201d so much more is about having courage in street photography!<\/p>\n

    \"Diagonal<\/p>\n

    Even now, it is impossible to know whether you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to make a good street photograph or not before<\/em> you shoot it! It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also difficult to determine which scenes might make for a good photo.<\/p>\n

    However it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quite easy to determine whether you see a scene which scares you or not!<\/p>\n

    \"Diagonal<\/p>\n

    Thus this is my simple suggestion:<\/p>\n

    \n If you see a scene which scares you, shoot it! Scenes which scare you have a high likelihood of being an interesting photo!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    \"Pink<\/p>\n

    So once again in short words,<\/p>\n

    \n To be a better street photographer, be a bolder street photographer!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    \n

    \"Composition<\/p>\n

    To be bolder in street photography means:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. If you see a scene which interests you, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think \u00e2\u20ac\u201d JUST SHOOT IT! Take the photo, and make eye contact<\/a> with your subject and just smile!<\/li>\n
    2. When in doubt, get closer to your subject! Shoot with a wide-angle lens (24<\/a>, 28<\/a>, 35mm<\/a> lens), and use your \u00e2\u20ac\u0153foot zoom<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to get closer to your subjects!<\/li>\n
    3. Live your photographic life with no regrets: Better to take a bad photo than no photo!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      BE BOLD!
      \nERIC<\/p>\n

      Street Photography 101<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Dear friend, A simple idea I wanted to share with you: focus on building your courage and bravery in photography and life; don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worry too much about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153skill\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/427A18EB-1905-438E-BFA5-73F7B55FBBCB.jpeg?fit=2224%2C1668&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108253,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108251\/revisions\/108253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}