This time I will show a subgenre of street photography, which I call the reportage street. This frequency is characterized by the fact that all images look aesthetically pleasing and almost always with a blurred background, that is, with the separation of the main object from the background.
In this rhythm, I want to show everyday life in some place.
A selection of a reportage street may include a landscape, a close-up, and a portrait.
But it's still a street, so classic techniques like silhouette, light spotting, and framing can be used here.
If we do not talk about the subtleties of perception of all the subspecies of the street, then the first time it will be difficult to distinguish at what frequency the street scenes are made.
The landscape is generally the most difficult to recognize, but there are still differences.
A landscape on a large landscape creative wave will look like an ordinary landscape made according to the canons of landscape painters.
These are the golden hour, the blue hour, long exposures, the night, the stars – everything is beautiful, aesthetically pleasing, and most importantly, there is a lot of processing, down to layers, superimposing another sky, stitching panoramas...I've been through this.
This is how many urban and natural cityscape photographers filmed and still shoot.
A reportage landscape is a minimum of processing and the presence of a person in the frame, sometimes even a barely noticeable tiny figure.
A reportage street is a multifaceted story about a place, an event with the idea of further publication in the media space.
Reportage street is always pop, it's never art-house. But pop can also be interesting, beautiful, and fascinating.