Any lens above 35mm on a aps-c camera is not street photography?!

[Timphoto]

Originally Posted by AiGTs

Or an M6 with pre-asph lux... real photographers shoot film, you know?

I stand corrected, Sir.

[troehr]

So most everything he shoots with his J1 is probably over the 50mm equivalent. Some people just have to be better than others.

[Mark1]

Originally Posted by AiGTs

Or an M6 with pre-asph lux... real photographers shoot film, you know?

Film. What is this new stuff that you talk about? Its wet glass or its nothing!

[Sirrith]

Originally Posted by Mark1

Film. What is this new stuff that you talk about? Its wet glass or its nothing!

Pah... Hammer, chisel, and a slab of marble is where its at.

[sjones]

Originally Posted by jeyaganesh

I received this comment for one of my pictures on flickr.

"Its great that you are into street photography, but there´s one thing that you have misunderstood. Any lens above 35mm on a aps-c camera is not street photography, I reapat NOT street photography."

What do you think about this comment?...

Street photography is a fairly ambiguous style; one that doesn't even have to include people. Your critic might have even been facetious. If not, he was roundly and rightly blasted in the following responses.

This said, the street photography that has regularly caught my eye has, in fact, been taken with wide to normal lenses. Still, my preference is not law, and one can use whatever they want, including wet plates.

And by the way, I'd be more than happy to use an M6 (actually, an M2) just as some sports photographers would be happy to use a bevy of white lenses and a body or two with quick autofocus and frame-per-second rates. Seems like some folks are replacing one set of rules with their own set.

[TimmyGStyle]

For me, street photography is capturing a slice of life, documenting it; but it can also be quirky, thought provoking or tell a story in a single image.

How you choose to capture it is irrelevant; you don't even have to be on a street!

[Mookalafalas]

Check out the POTN black and white street photography thread. Some of the best posters there are using a 135. I don't think anyone can pin down what makes street photography, but one thing I am certain it's not is focal length. I read a cool blog by a German street shooter who said in real street photography you should be able to "smell the street". I rather like that, although I think even that is too narrow.

[airfrogusmc]

Originally Posted by Mookalafalas

Check out the POTN black and white street photography thread. Some of the best posters there are using a 135. I don't think anyone can pin down what makes street photography, but one thing I am certain it's not is focal length. I read a cool blog by a German street shooter who said in real street photography you should be able to "smell the street". I rather like that, although I think even that is too narrow.

Some of the best street stuff I've seen on POTN have been a guy that goes by tuna and by sjones. Great street photography is not just picture of people on the street. Look at the work of the greats for reference. Bresson, Winogrand, Meyerowitz, Robert Frank. See how they use the frame. See how they use shapes, tone and see how everything in the frame is helping support their visual statements. It looks a lot different from what many think good street photography is. So much of what I see is just somebody on the street usually shot a half block away with the subject having no relationship to the background and nothing in the frame supporting the subject. I want to say this is not all I see but it does dominate what I see.

[Joe Ravenstein]

I suggest you notify his local village their idiot is out and running his mouth again.

[airfrogusmc]

Wow so personal attacks makes one not an idiot

[Mookalafalas]

Originally Posted by airfrogusmc

Wow so personal attacks makes one not an idiot

I think anyone who claims "my view is the correct one, everyone else is wrong" on any general question of aesthetic taste becomes fair game.

[airfrogusmc]

Originally Posted by Mookalafalas

I think anyone who claims "my view is the correct one, everyone else is wrong" on any general question of aesthetic taste becomes fair game.

Never an excuse for personal attacks just because someones view might not be the popular one. Tell me where my opinion is wrong and I am more then will to discuss that.

[Mookalafalas]

Originally Posted by airfrogusmc

Never an excuse for personal attacks just because someones view might not be the popular one. Tell me where my opinion is wrong and I am more then will to discuss that.

Your opinion isn't wrong, can't be, because it's an opinion. The quote the original poster was referring to wasn't an opinion: "Any lens above 35mm on a aps-c camera is not street photography, I reapat NOT street photography." People who consider their opinion to be incontrovertible fact and say so may not actually be idiots, but are obnoxious.

[airfrogusmc]

Originally Posted by Mookalafalas

Your opinion isn't wrong, can't be, because it's an opinion. The quote the original poster was referring to wasn't an opinion: "Any lens above 35mm on a aps-c camera is not street photography, I reapat NOT street photography." People who consider their opinion to be incontrovertible fact and say so may not actually be idiots, but are obnoxious.

Still whether you agree or not (BTW I do not agree, you can shoot street with anything but there are clearly better tools than others) does it serve any purpose to make it personal?

[Kirill]

You can seat at your balcony with 400mm lens and street photography.