While I am not a guy that would say street photography can only be done with wide angle, it is true that 70-200 is an unpopular choice. At 100-200mm it compress the image a lot, and it’s hard to get any kind of juxtaposition
with composition. A more typical choice is 28-50mm.
I am not saying you can’t take good street photo with it, it just harder. Most of the street photo with tele lenses are limited to close up shot, which is fine but it could easily gets boring very quickly.
And to respond to your questions, it is very normal to have 1 good shot in thousands of photos. Alex Webb, a legendary street photographer once said ‘99.9% of your photos will be failure’, it’s not a easy genre to master.
While I am not a guy that would say street photography can only be done with wide angle, it is true that 70-200 is an unpopular choice. At 100-200mm it compress the image a lot, and it’s hard to get any kind of juxtaposition with composition. A more typical choice is 28-50mm.
I am not saying you can’t take good street photo with it, it just harder. Most of the street photo with tele lenses are limited to close up shot, which is fine but it could easily gets boring very quickly.
And to respond to your questions, it is very normal to have 1 good shot in thousands of photos. Alex Webb, a legendary street photographer once said ‘99.9% of your photos will be failure’, it’s not a easy genre to master.