"Times Square, Night: RED!" : Street Shot New York

gvf

Street Shot: "Times Square, Night: RED!" ... (I didn't color it)...... 35mm film

bdcolen

gvf wrote:

Street Shot: "Times Square, Night: RED!" ... (I didn't color it)...... 35mm film

Yup. It's a street, and you took a shot. And I guess that makes it a 'street shot.' But there's really nothing here that makes it a 'street photo.' Sorry.:cry

gvf

Yup. It's a street, and you took a shot. And I guess that makes it a 'street shot.' But there's really nothing here that makes it a 'street photo.' Sorry

Right, I think I get your definition. I just call anything shot on the street, unless it's one really set up and planned in advance, a street-shot. (Like "country-shot".)
I'll call this type (the T. Sqaure shot or the type planned) just by the name of the place - on this forum. And then what I'm trying to do as a street-shot - with context or a setting that has to do intinsically with the place itself - a street-shot/street-photo. Sometime on your comments, can you give a "formal definition" of a "street-photo"?
Thanks

nxthree

Personally, I think the goal of a "street shot", "street photo", whatever you want to call it is to tell a story about someone or something. To convey an emotion, draw people in, evoke thought.

The picture above doesn't seem to do anything. There's no subject, no story, no emotion. It's just a picture of Times Square, and its red. It's the same thing any New Yorker has seen thousands of times.

gvf wrote:

Right, I think I get your definition. I just call anything shot on the street, unless it's one really set up and planned in advance, a street-shot. (Like "country-shot".)
I'll call this type (the T. Sqaure shot or the type planned) just by the name of the place - on this forum. And then what I'm trying to do as a street-shot - with context or a setting that has to do intinsically with the place itself - a street-shot/street-photo. Sometime on your comments, can you give a "formal definition" of a "street-photo"?
Thanks

bdcolen

nxthree wrote:

Personally, I think the goal of a "street shot", "street photo", whatever you want to call it is to tell a story about someone or something. To convey an emotion, draw people in, evoke thought.

The picture above doesn't seem to do anything. There's no subject, no story, no emotion. It's just a picture of Times Square, and its red. It's the same thing any New Yorker has seen thousands of times.

There you go. Add the idea that a good street photo might contain surprise, pathos, humor, or, best of all, abiguity, and you've got it. The best street photography evokes a sense of wonder, or a 'what the f#*'?!
The earlier Times Square shot had that - this one ...? Sorry, but the comment above is dead on.