Ten Commandments of
Street Photography
Yes, you have freedom to do what you like, nobody cares, but if you want to be taken seriously in the street photography community then avoid these 10 sins -
1. Posed Portraits are not considered Street Photography (as my previous blog on What is Street Photography explains with the reasoning behind it, it’s not about being biased, it’s more of the philosophical approach it is based upon, read it)
2. Keep natural colours, no manipulation of colour channels and avoid over saturation or selective color in post (same reason, the philosophy is to not manipulate the scene but just be the observer)
3. Avoid over sharpening
4. Avoid lens distortions
5. Don’t add flares in post processing
6. Don’t invert photos in post
7. BnW of clutter is not better than colour of clutter
8. Colour is not inferior to BnW, it’s not early 20th century when fast colour film were not invented
9. Bokeh of clutter is still clutter.
10. HDR is ugly, don’t make grey photos.
Avoid these beginner mistakes and speed up your street photography.
Footnote: The image messed up in this post is shot by me in 2018 in Pune.