The physical, tangible, structural, space for which runs every day, our environment, our home, our condo, our neighborhood, our city, our country and our world every day have stories to tell, lines and diverse geometries see, people, animals and everyday things that show different behaviors and postures, all within an urban space filled with concrete and steel, the same that contains us, holds us, overwhelm us, when we look daily and often falls into a monotony of seeing the same day. However, if step by step we stop to analyze where we walked, that this fact, that shapes this compound, which is its texture, color, light, and also if we change our point of view, for example, worm's eye look at the street there on the sidewalk, or otherwise bird's eye view from the rooftop, or simply stand on a bench our perceptions of urban space will change and we can get a world I always circulábamos but never knew.
The Human Being is an indispensable part of public space, the us contains a part of it, and the relationship between them is undeniable, one depends on the other to exist in urban areas , man built the public space and it welcomes us into it, if some of both parties would be neither "space" or "public."
Now, if It is true that there are countless ways to take over public space as an inalienable right of the citizen, as stated in Article 23 of the present constitution of Ecuador, said: "People are entitled to access and participate in the public space as an area deliberative, cultural exchange, social cohesion and promote equality in diversity. The right to disseminate in the public's own cultural expressions, be exercised without any limitations other than those established by law subject to constitutional principles "
Framed in this legal area, the state is first hand who we guarantee free access of public space, but not all humans are equal, each one of us is different from the way we think and socialize to the physical, reason why we can not all access to public spaces in the same way in which cultural managers served by example in the organization of concerts, as not all have neither the time nor the money or simply do not share this ideology, why is born into urban style photography as a way to seize public space for a split second, but that will endure for the passing of the years and so will become part of the visual memory of each of the localities.
The Urban Photography can go beyond the typical postcards capture the place, with shots and normal views, we can experiment with many visual tools such as different points view: as the chopped shots, drawings, close-ups, medium shots, different applications such as wide-angle lens to include more items in our frame, or a telephoto lens to exclude elements of it, as well as the macro to capture textures, to be seen need to come over and yet not see how a camera captures them.
Each district, city, has its own essence, and its people are unique in each locality, so capturing the inhabitants' relationship with the built environment becomes a task even more difficult because we need to mentor one or more human beings within the lines and architectural forms of the city, so we must be always looking and always attentive to any frame that we deem worthy of capture.
framing and composition is something very personal to each individual, there are no rules about "how one should" make a frame and a composition, but people who have been studying the visual and psychological phenomena of the human being can give us some ideas on how to make our photography be more attractive to the public, such as the composition into thirds which indicates that the main object should be located in one of the thirds of our frame, has shown that an image is more attractive when in one of these thirds, another recommendation is the point of view according to what we want our picture means, for example when we take a child from a visa chop ie higher the child's height can send a message that the child is unprotected, that is submissive, which is a little boy But if we take the same child from the point of view shots, ie from more below his waist and pointed up, give the child a sense of grandeur, superiority and security.
If however the Urban Photography especially no rules, there are many exceptional photos taken with automatic cameras, in addition to the advantage of always having a scenario where every second is in constantly changing, every moment is different, and in one place can make hundreds of different pictures of each other.
One of the virtues that a urban photographer must develop is the ability to sit to wait, because you can get an idea of \u200b\u200byour frame but maybe you need a person to stop , or a bird fly, or a moving car and a myriad of things that you should wait until the moment you want to happen.
A great advantage of street photography is that you know places and people that you imagined existed, therefore, now is the time to get out and walk, walk a lot, streets that do not know, venture, start your own neighborhood, even your home or condo that does not stop you having no professional teams, today many photos can be made up to the camera cell phones if there is good light outside. If you like photography, take pictures, that what the rest think not stop you, and pictures you like you'll be alright, just with time and experience will learn to take pictures they like the rest, however, never let's make your own frames with your own meanings, so grab your camera, and salt to find what your eyes want to see and not what the rest want you see.
Gabriel Diaz
Photographer
Urban / Documentary / Fiction
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