{"id":18850,"date":"2014-06-14T23:06:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T06:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=18850"},"modified":"2014-06-15T02:56:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T09:56:38","slug":"10-things-not-to-do-in-street-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/14\/10-things-not-to-do-in-street-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Things Not to Do in Street Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18851\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18851\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18851\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/14\/10-things-not-to-do-in-street-photography\/suits-8\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Suits-8.jpg?fit=800%2C531&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,531\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Suits-8\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Suits-8.jpg?fit=800%2C531&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-18851 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Suits-8.jpg?resize=800%2C531\" alt=\"Suits-8\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Suits-8.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Suits-8.jpg?resize=660%2C438&amp;ssl=1 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hong Kong, 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ol>\n<li>Don&#8217;t chimp (<a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/07\/the-importance-of-letting-your-photos-marinate\/\" target=\"_blank\">let your shots marinate<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t look at bad photos (<a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/learn-from-the-masters\/\" target=\"_blank\">study the masters<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t spend time on gear review sites when you&#8217;re bored (<a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/12\/buy-books-not-gear\/\" target=\"_blank\">buy books, not gear<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t worry about your camera (the best camera is the one you have with you)<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t mix black and white and color in the same set (<a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/03\/on-consistency-and-street-photography\/\" target=\"_blank\">aim for consistency<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t stop shooting (shoot a lot of bad photos to get a few good ones)<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t worry about how many followers you have (<a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/20\/on-shooting-for-your-inner-scorecard\/\" target=\"_blank\">shoot for yourself<\/a>, like <a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/14\/5-lessons-vivian-maier-has-taught-me-about-street-photography\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vivian Maier<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t publish photos without a second opinion (<a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/19\/15-tips-how-street-photographers-can-better-edit-their-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">edit ruthlessly<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t only take 1 photo of a scene (work the scene, there is <a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/23\/debunking-the-myth-of-the-decisive-moment\/\" target=\"_blank\">more than one &#8220;decisive moment&#8221;<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t forget to have fun (life is short, <a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/07\/shoot-every-day-as-if-it-were-your-last\/\" target=\"_blank\">shoot if everyday were your last<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>What else would you add to this list? Share what you don&#8217;t do in street photography in the comments below!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t chimp (let your shots marinate) Don&#8217;t look at bad photos (study the masters) Don&#8217;t spend time on gear review sites when you&#8217;re bored (buy books, not gear) Don&#8217;t worry about your camera (the \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-18850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts","tag-tips-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Suits-8.jpg?fit=800%2C531&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18850","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=18850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}