Whether you are staking out an interesting scene or casually walking down the street your mind has to be ready like a cat ready to pounce.\u00a0 Sometimes the decisive moment demands that the photographer be quick enough and perceptive enough to get in front of a moment…\u00a0 You must be able to anticipate some moments or lose them forever.<\/p>\n
Street photography doesn’t always happen spur of the moment.\u00a0 Sometimes when you talk to photographers about street photography I think they envision a photographer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[182,3],"tags":[355,312,214,354,34,29],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCF2312.jpg?fit=1400%2C933&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5xbS3-jP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/1250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Shadow](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSCF0350.jpg?ssl=1\")
<\/a>Sure, we all like to walk all around looking for the decisive moment to fall right into our laps but it’s unrealistic to think this will happen every time you venture out, camera in hand.\u00a0 In reality, one of the best things you can do is stake-out an interesting scene and wait for your subject.\u00a0 Basically you set the stage how you’d like by selecting the location, timing, and angle…\u00a0 Then you wait for the right character to come into the frame to complete the show.\u00a0 If you want the light to hit your subject a certain way or for your subject to be in a certain spot all you have to do is wait for the right moment.<\/p>\n<\/a>So next time you take your camera out and are having a tough time capturing something interesting, stop acting like Wyatt Earp and start acting like a patient street photographer.\u00a0 When you’re walking through the city, town, or village, keep your eye out for interesting backgrounds.\u00a0 Pay attention to the angle of light, the direction the light hits an area can dramatically change it’s level of interest.\u00a0 The photograph below was taken in a rather uninteresting area but because of the angle of the light it made an interesting street shot.<\/p>\n<\/a>You can head over to the DecisiveShot Flickr page<\/a> and share your success with everyone there or post it to the Facebook page<\/a>.\u00a0 Leave your thoughts in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"