Morning light is different from evening light. The rays of the morning sun are brighter, the shadows are more contrasting. But there are more people on the streets in the evening than in the morning. And a street without people turns into a formalism.
Formalism, like street art, is the most unclaimed genre.
If earlier in the Soviet years such pictures were taken very little and carefully, now every second photographer takes such pictures.
My color-light spots in street photography, it turns out, are also a form of formalism (I love tautology).
The main principle of my street is the emphasis on shape, geometry, light-shadow pattern and color.
The plot very rarely comes to the fore.
It is believed that formalism distorts reality due to far-fetched plots and trickery.
It seems to me, on the contrary, tricks are used more in reporting, where a direct objective view is needed.
And formalism in the street (although the street is almost always formalism) is an objective view of reality.
I'm walking down the street, I see shadows and people who are "entangled" in these shadows – I'm filming. Objectively, though!
There's some kind of mass event going on. The report. But if you shoot it objectively, dryly and directly, it will be boring. Nobody does that.
Everyone uses different tricks in the report to make the picture more interesting. And that's creativity.
But in general, everything is subjective. Both views of reality reflect it, no matter how you look at it. And that's fair.
It would be dishonest to resort to editing or distorting this reality during processing. That's where the most biased lies come from...although it's also creative.
It depends on what it's served under (sauce, not drugs...although who knows how).
Nice frame with that blossom