'Street' Photography downtown Columbia Missouri

Crabwok · Oct 14, 2013

Of recent I've been trying my hand in street photography. Here are a few of the more recent shots
C&C is welcome

IMG_2718 by sethdearmas, on Flickr

IMG_2771 by sethdearmas, on Flickr

IMG_2759 by sethdearmas, on Flickr

DiskoJoe · Oct 14, 2013

#1 - eh, kind of boring
#2 - kind of has something going on.
#3 - lol, this one is dumpster bound.

manaheim · Oct 14, 2013

My suggestion to you is to consider what your images are saying. What's the message, what's the impact?

A lot of "street" work tends to fall into one of a few categories:

- Voyeuristic - "hey look at the freak!"
- Voyeuristic - "hey look at the hot chick!"
- Snapshots - "ok, it's a picture... of a person... on the street."

None of these have any real value as an art form, in my opinion. Others will violently disagree.

MiFleur · Oct 14, 2013

I like the last one the best, it's intriguing... love your composition!
Don't care for the first one, I do not know where to rest my eyes.
On the second one, I would see a shallow DOF , that would put more emphasis on the guy and the bicycle, which are the main subject, I still like the shot!

DarkShadow · Oct 14, 2013

Honestly # 1 is crazy bright, especially the distracting reflection from the car to the right. If you check your histogram, I bet it's pinned to the right from blown out highligts, reduce your exposure.

amolitor · Oct 14, 2013

#3 is easily the best one, but none of these are really "street" except per the loosest possible definition. There's no real human interaction in any of them, although you do have a moderate sense of design going on. No sense of narrative, either. And certainly no mystery or ambiguity, except, possibly, in the third one, which is definitely not street because it doesn't even contain a whole person