Four Tips for Street Photography and How It Reminded Me Why I Love Being a Photographer

A few years back I met photographer Russ Wynn at the Brews & Blues festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. I watched him photographing people in their element — drinking beer, laughing and eating some damn good wings — which inspired me to dust off my old Nikon 1 V1 and give street photography a shot. What I learned about the genre challenged me, inspired me, and also reminded me of what I love about photography: telling a story.

Yes, people are typically the primary subject of street photography, but there are a lot of other interesting subjects including: signs, buildings, street landscape and birds, lots of birds, some even eating french fries. What you shoot is up to you and every photographer develops their own style of street photography; ask Eric Kim. If you haven’t read anything from Eric yet, and are serious about street photography, then he is a must resource to explore; not only very knowledgeable but inspiring!

Early on you will recognize something other photographer’s often refer to as “an eye” which is more valuable to you than any gear you have including the really really expensive gear. Many people may suggest that you that you either have it or you don’t — the eye — and there is a lot of truth to that statement, but it’s also not that simple. You could have an eye…