Street PhotographyTheme Generator
For when you're feeling overwhelmed or uninspired on the streets. The theme generator can give you a Street Photography Theme to focus on, whatever the weather.
The Street Theme Generator
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Instructions: Press a weather button (sun, cloud, rain) and the generator will provide you with a Street Photography theme or technique to play with, which is appropriate for those conditions.
What is a Street Theme?
A Street Theme can be a topic or a photographic technique that can be used in Street Photography to create visual interest within an image.
To understand why Street Themes create visual interest in photos, we can look to the Gestalt Principles:
“The Gestalt Principles are a set of laws arising from 1920s’ psychology, describing how humans typically see objects by grouping similar elements, recognising patterns and simplifying complex images.”
You can read about these principles in detail via the link above, but in short, they demonstrated how you could apply visual principles to create aesthetically pleasing and visually impactful designs or in this case, photos. Street Themes use these same visual principles.
Why Focus on a single Street Theme?
A big part of Street Photography is the ability to capture interest amongst the chaos. And the streets can be very visually chaotic. While running my workshops, I’ve also seen this to be the cause for one of the most common challenges in Street Photography – feeling visually overwhelmed and not knowing how to find the interest or what to take photos of.
Focusing on a single Street Theme, allows you to cut through the noise and start to see just that thing. Once you can see it, you can photograph it. This exercise also begins to train your eye to notice this theme, so that in future, you won’t have to walk around with a specific theme in mind, you will naturally see them.