Huawei has been investing heavily in smartphone photography or mobile photography, as we can see in its association established in 2016 with Leica, for technological development, improving the lenses of its latest equipment. Knowledge that deserves to be shared.
Now, as an expert in front camera photography (selfie) and in street photography, Huawei highlights some of the most important tips for putting street photography into practice.
Street photography gives amateur photographers the opportunity to quickly become familiar with their equipment, broaden the range of their observations, and get a better idea of creating photographs.
Busy streets and the interesting people, objects, and scenes that fill them are excellent subjects for a photographer’s lens, extracting, distilling, and expressing the scenes he captures in the language of photography.
Time to grab your smartphone and start shooting!
With the rapid development of mobile photography, mobile phones, with their portability and ease of use, have become a great tool for street photography. It’s one of the most challenging types of photography, you think.
So what tricks and techniques are there when it comes to mobile street photography? To answer that question, Huawei has been on the streets of cities like London, Brighton, and the Isle of Wight and shows you how to use sunlight, colors, and environments to create a street photography album.
1. Know your smartphone
Street photography means being in the right place at the right time. For this reason, emerging street photographers need to know their equipment well in order to quickly activate their smartphone camera.
Today most devices already open the camera very quickly and in the case of the Huawei P10 it allows you to slide the screen up while it is locked, to quickly open the camera.
In short, it’s all about getting comfortable with the camera’s functions – just by tapping the screen, you can change the focal point of the image and the virtual shutter button. The rhythm of the city doesn’t just wait for you to find the right button, you really have to know your machine / smartphone.
2. Use a variety of angles for your photos
Due to reasons related to physical comfort, habit, and indifference, most people tend to stand up and point their cameras completely straight and level when taking pictures.
Such actions are often the result of dull and lifeless photographs. It doesn’t hurt to mix it up a bit and experiment with new camera angles, as well as ups and downs. Try changing the angle, you won’t regret it!
3. Using mirror images
Lakes, pools of water, and swimming pools are natural ways to create mirror images. However, if natural surfaces are not available, you can use surfaces like glass or even another phone’s screen to create a mirrored surface.
4. Vivid colors to improve life.
To better bring the essence of life to street level, look for scenes where vibrant colors like red, yellow, blue and green come together in a single photo.
5. Light is the soul of street photography
The light makes the buildings cast dynamic shadows on the streets, adding a layer of mystery, as well as giving the viewer a feeling of “temperature”, of “warmth”.
In the case of Huawei and Honor 9, you can slide up or down on your camera’s exposure bar to increase or decrease the exposure compensation to find the perfect balance for your photo.
If you are capturing a silhouette, try reducing the exposure compensation by increasing the background brightness to better capture the interplay between light and shadow.
6. Find relationships between people and their environment to give photography a sense of depth.
In addition to being just plain nice to look at, good photos need to have a certain level of depth and tell a story. To do this, a photographer needs to develop their observation skills, which can be improved through training and practice.
All photos captured with Honor 9 smartphone
Most casual photographers put a lot of effort into people watching while taking pictures of the street, the context and environment these people live in is not enough. Therefore, and to take an excellent street photograph, people and backgrounds must assume the same level of importance when selecting the scene.
The contrasting outlines of the buildings against the sky, the patterns in the corners, the shadows of the objects scattered on the walls; These are all the elements that make up a great photo.
All photos captured with Huawei P10 Plus smartphone
The ideal street photography shows the dynamic relationship between people and their environment rather than using the environment as a simple static backdrop with no interaction.
Another suggestion to improve your street photography is to capture the everyday interactions between individuals. Photos that capture fleeting moments of mood, anger, coincidence, and sudden changes are much more vivid than still or posing photos.
Street photography may be the greatest form of esoteric art and the most common pursuit of the laity. But whoever it is, expensive and bulky photographic equipment is no longer a requirement, as mobile phones Current events give each and every one of us the ability to participate, act, and act.
