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This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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What is a good photo? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by OleBentsBallonCirkus@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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So I'm going to Paris in a few weeks, and I will be bringing my new 70-200mm f4 for the trip.

However, i have this thought in my head that I don't really know what to photograph. I usually take pictures of people and situations with people in them, as those are memories I want to hang on to.

When I see a lot of street photographers on YouTube etc, I feel like they take some well framed and pretty, but also irrelevant images. Would they ever go back to an image of a busdriver they snapped at an intersection?

I'm not putting those people down, but I personally have a hard time seeing the real value in that. I guess that simply making a nice shot is a great feeling. And a really nice shot might o ly happen once every 1000 images.

But what makes a nice image to you? Can the image stand alone? Or does it have to be part of a series with a certain theme to it?

I'm looking for some fresh perspectives on street photography that will get me excited for my trip :)

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[–] jackystack@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Can the image stand alone? Or does it have to be part of a series with a certain theme to it?

Yes! Either.

Some things I shoot knowing that it will be framed and hung as a centerpiece. Other images I simply find interesting and I print as 4x6 and hang on my fridge, which is usually what I do to proof digital images anyway.

Others, I send as postcards, present as collections, or share because it documents a time or place.

Do what suits you. There really isn't a right answer for this, but if I were you, I would simply capture photos that I enjoy, and maybe some framed art along the way.