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 :)
70-200 (and esp f4 version) will somewhat limit you to outdoors and relatively bright scenes. I’ve travelled a lot, both for work and for pleasure. In the beginning I would take a ton of lenses for “options”. If you want one lens for travel versatility: 24-70mm f/2.8.
But if and when you get into prime lenses: 35mm f/1.4 is my lens of choice for travel. Those are the shots that I consistently return to and truly love. For example: inside food stalls of Singapore, inside cafes in Italy, etc. these are all relatively low light as well …so the ability to opening up your aperture will give you nice creamy backgrounds but also the ability to use relatively normal ISOs.