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What is street shooting? What is the significance and culture of street shooting?

What is the significance and culture of street shooting? Street Shooting: English name Street Snap, in which Street means street, representing the places that have been walked, seen, free, around, ordinary and familiar. Snap, one of its original meanings, is an adjective, which refers to flashing, rushing, sudden and simple, as well as clicking, quick and flexible movement and sudden hand. Street shooting originated from foreign fashion magazines. In addition to introducing the release of new clothes in the major show halls in time, it also conveys popular information from the people, so the so-called "street shooting" came into being, which is the origin of street shooting.

Of course, street shooting is not only aimed at ordinary people, but also a large number of professional photographers capture stars in their daily lives, which has become an important genre of street shooting. But in any case, as long as you see anything beautiful and interesting on the road, you can act as a street photographer, and let the handsome and beautiful people passing by become the stars under your lens, as long as you are fashionable, love shopping, have a keen eye, have a unique taste and act quickly. Photographic equipment for street shooting generally uses digital cameras with relatively small volume and strong performance. You can also use your mobile phone. Street shooting is very popular in Japan. Many young people with different shapes and a large number of fashion magazines need it, which provides a broad space for street shooting. Generally speaking, a professional street shooting must capture the details, collocation and brand of the clothes of the person being photographed. Today, this is still the mainstream of street shooting content. Street shooter: Street shooter has a pair of eyes that are good at discovering. Street fashion, interesting details, unforgettable scenes and dramatic pictures are all their goals! They have no specific relationship with the person opposite the camera, from the perspective of onlookers. Therefore, when they raise their cameras, they need to remind themselves at all times: I am just a recorder, a photographer who records real life! Wandering in the streets and lanes, shuttling between people and mountains, the sound of "click" is constant during walking, and light and shadow are captured with SLR, card machine and camera phone. In these shots, there is no figure of myself, not even a familiar face, only strangers passing by them. These are the people we are looking for. Maybe you've seen them, maybe you've just heard about them, maybe you were caught by a camera while waiting for a bus in a busy street ... You can call them "street gunmen" or "street cleaners". Street Shooting Culture: Capturing the fashionable elements in the street with cameras, "Street Shooting" activity is gradually becoming a new street cultural activity for young people in China. Street shooting originated from foreign fashion magazines. These fashion magazines not only timely introduced the release of new clothes on major shows, but also conveyed popular information from the people, so the so-called "street show" came into being, which is the origin of street shooting. Street photographers who are fashionable enough, love shopping, have sharp eyes and unique tastes will react quickly and take beautiful moments when they see anything beautiful, fun and fashionable on the road. The domestic street shooting culture originated from popular websites. At first, some netizens tried to capture the fashion elements of domestic streets after seeing photos of fashion streets around the world, and took some street photos for release. Later, a special street shooting forum was gradually established. Some websites also organize street shooters to conduct collective street shooting activities on the streets from time to time. Some street shooting activities also have certain themes, such as "friendship group" and "school uniform show", which attracted many young people to participate. In China, street shooting culture is still very strange. In fact, many street shooters have a little knowledge of the true meaning of street shooting, and some regard selfies between acquaintances as street shooting, which can't really reflect the street fashion taste. Real street shooting activities are not very popular with the public. On the one hand, this culture has not been widely accepted. On the other hand, people in China are still shy in front of the camera. Many fashionable handsome men and beautiful women can't face the lens of strangers in the street, and often refuse street shooting, so that many street shooting have become "sneak shots". "The best effect of actual street shooting should be to get the active cooperation of the photographer, but not many people can do this." Ken said that he tried to invite many citizens with unique clothes to take photos near No.4 Middle School and Jin Xin Road Pedestrian Street, but 90% of them were rejected, and some even said that he was indecent, which greatly damaged his enthusiasm for street shooting. Although the development of street shooting culture in China is not very smooth, after all, this culture has deeply attracted some young people who are exploring and looking for a unique fashion style in China. Street shooting has always been controversial. From a professional point of view, street shooting is also an artistic creation, but can this kind of creation override everything else? Including human rights.