How to make your STREET PHOTOGRAPHY Images more Interesting

I’m taking you on a walk through the town of Lübeck in northern Germany. It’s rose bloom season, so there’s lot’s of colors to play with alongside the old town buildings.

Gear used:
Photo:
Sony A7RV
Laowa 28mm 1.2
Voigtländer 50mm NOKTON 1.2

Video:
DJI Osmo Pocket 3

[Music] I [Music] [Music] welcome to the little town of Lubec in Northern Germany I’ve come here today to take advantage of the rose flower bloom as you can see here and a lot of houses places Flats have decorated their entrance ways their doors with nice roses so makes for a very picturesque nice vibe in combination with all these uh cobblestone Stone roads and I’m going to take you along today while I’m walking through the streets and also I’m going to talk to you about a topic that I’ve been trying to implement into my work in the recent years which is how time can affect our images or more spe specifically how images can mature very nicely over time and become a lot more interesting than you know after the day they were taken okay without further Ado let’s get on with the video [Music] so just a quick mention of the gear I’m using today and usually I’m perfectly fine with just using one prime lens which is the 50 mil in my case but since the streets here are very narrow at times and I’m also trying to capture more of the the buildings I’ve also brought a 28 mil lens prime lens with me so 28 and 50 is what I’m using and 28 mil is at least for my use case wide enough for these kinds of images so I’ve already taken a couple of warm-up shots which uh turned out great [Music] so what do I mean by maturing images uh the easiest example would be if you take a look at pictures from your childhood obviously these images will now have a bigger impact on you than on the day they were taken or when they were developed or shot or whatever and this is a concept that also works within the genre of um street photography so how can you implement this idea into street photography travel photography doesn’t really matter um but for Street specifically I personally like to actively look for elements that I put into the frame that will tell a story of that specific period of time and the easiest thing to talk about is just having cars cars from your current day and age uh in the in the frame which after 10 or maybe even 20 years will have a very certain look and take you back to that time and therefore have a different impact than on the day you were taking the image [Music] so I’ve just taken a picture of U the church spire and one tip I can give you that I have used a couple of times in the past um if you want to get rid of let’s say a long row of cars in your shot you can do something I did and just just you will need a fairly wide angle lens but you can basically shoot off of a reflection of a car roof and thereby eliminating a foreground that would otherwise be completely full with cars so that’s just a little tip if you ever come across a situation like this [Music] so to put that into practice I for example went to a new part of town where I live which is a very large construction project that’s still going on and I took a couple of pictures and included landmarks in these pictures from which I knew I would be able to find them again once all the construction had finished and then you’ll have kind of a before and after now granted this is of course something you can only do when you’re local when you’re able to visit a certain place um as many times as you want basically and of course it’s a strong d Direction into documentary photography instead of uh street photography but nevertheless my in my opinion this is all something that can then spill over into your street photography and help you to identify elements within a scene that you actually want to have there and that you know small little ingredients that will help to further emphasize the subject that your photographing or the story that you are trying to tell so I think by now I’ve gotten all the nice and colorful Rose shots out of my system of the feeling I haven’t shot anything else since I arrived here um so now I’ll try to focus a little bit more on different subjects that can be people that can be just small objects small subjects that um help to tell the story of the place a little better [Music] no [Music] I do have to say that some of these inner yards along these cobblestone streets are really very beautiful especially with uh all the colorful flowers that you can see here at the moment um but they do feel very private so you do feel a little bit like you’re intruding if that makes sense so I tried to be very quiet be respectful of the place even though it’s uh it’s public and yeah I’m very happy about a couple of images I I got from there right see that’s what I’m talking about it’s the stuff that fair tals are made of just beautiful so to summarize what I’m trying to say is especially if you’ve just started out with photography then chances are you’ll find a lot of your images maybe aren’t as interesting as you’d hoped but do yourself a favor and don’t just batch to leete them and uh you’ll be very surprised if you mature as a photographer over the years on what little kind of diamonds you can still find in images that you previously thought were basically rubbish and yeah it’s just it’s just a a lot of fun to go through old images and suddenly find things that do appeal to you on on some [Music] level if you enjoy these types of videos then please consider leaving a like and subscribing to the channel I am going to build this channel as time goes on and all future videos will be related to photography to Street to travel so if that’s something you’re interested in go ahead and uh click the Subscribe button anyway this is it for me I am going to head back to the train station and go back home see you all next time [Music]