Guest Article - How To Avoid Taking Boring Street Portraits By Tim Russell

Guest Article - How to Avoid Taking Boring Street Portraits by Tim Russell

Guest Article - How to Avoid Taking Boring Street Portraits by Tim Russell #asiaphotoreview #bangkok #streetphotography

Article originally posted on Tim Russell Photography

I recently joined a street portraits group on Facebook, and without wanting to be overly critical of other photographers’ work, I’ve found a good 90% of the images posted extremely boring and unimaginative (when they actually hit the brief, which is rare). Pictures taken on long lenses with no engagement with the subject; the camera pointed…

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