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Street Photography Tips: Transform Everyday Scenes into Art

The more I use the street as the place to find creative outlet, the more I see it as a theatre. The world stage, it’s actors, each with a role to play.

I have always had a contention with photographers who turn their thoughts to street photography, then declare that it must have certain qualities. Normally, those qualities are the photographer’s own biased opinion. They suit themselves, and expect others to immediately agree.

“It must be a street portrait!” — “It must be real close up — so you can see up people’s noses, hairs ‘n all!”

Often, after they declare what street photography is, they ask what the ‘proper camera settings for street photography are’.

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Transform Everyday Scenes into Art

I love to create. A street photo should have everything that you see in it. The point is that you must earn your salt by making something interesting out of the mundane, the everyday life of hum-drum affairs that pass us by on the street.