Street photographer composition with light reflections on a window
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What is Street Photography & How Do We Know When We are Doing it Right?

Taking street photography shots is very much about wandering through neighbourhoods, keeping an eye open for promising compositions.

Sean P. Durham
5 min readOct 22, 2023

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Street photo of an advert in a Berlin Ubahn Station
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This can be groups of people who are involved in an action that creates high interest, or a single person juxtaposed against a building that reflects light and shadows.

This can be groups of people who are involved in an action that creates high interest, or a single person juxtaposed against a building that reflects light and shadows.

This is an opportunity to create photo compositions with a strong graphic design feeling.

Often street photographers take photos that appear similar to graphic novel settings. The framing of a shot can be varied. It’s entirely up to the photographer how he or she angles the shot, composes the frame, and what they personally see as the centre of attention in the shot.

There are no hard and fast rules in street photography. Only that it should, ideally, be in a city street, people or signs of people can be…

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Sean P. Durham
Sean P. Durham

Written by Sean P. Durham

Berlin Notes — Creative Writing about art, Life & cats. https://seandurham.eu

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