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11 months agoPaulie B is incredibly talented chap. Very rare in the sea of crap that is on Youtube.
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I don’t. I print, for myself.
It’s been a while since I realized noone cares about my photography and that’s fine.
As silly as it will sound, what reignited my spark in photography was selling all my equipment and shooting with my iPhone.
I found that having all the good gear put an incredible amount of pressure on me to shoot and create and I felt no result was enough. With a good camera phone (I have iPhone 13 Pro and about to upgrade to 15PM) I got the spark again. Now I still have an extremely capable device in my pocket but to seriously photograph on travels or on day by day basis but I don’t feel the pressure that if I don’t go out to shoot my expensive gear is depreciating.
This years trip to the US I photographed fully on my phone and I am still happy to frame some of the pictures on my wall.
It’s not all the hype now, it’s been all hype ever since the cameras started to become available.
The beauty of (good) street photography is the unreproduceability. Every person can go to Horseshoe Bend and take beautiful sunset pictures if they study little bit of theory, but very few people can get similar street photography results to the masters. That takes time, good eye, sense of storytelling. Good street photograph has a story behind it - which can be very superficial (basically photo version of one like joke) or very deep (a documentary about a city riddled with AIDS).
However (and unfortunately), from the most people it is only what you described - random pictures of strangers.