Česlavs Gržibovskis. Retranslations

It is very important that you train your eye and take photos regularly. Ideally, you have to shoot every day. You can do it on your way to school or work and on your way back home. Do not forget your camera when you travel. There is no progress without practice. You can put your plans on the paper or in your daily calendar. For instance, today you may decide to concentrate on shadows, tomorrow on reflections, the day after tomorrow on finding similar colours of people and cars on the street, etc. Think about interesting places in the city in advance that have interesting backgrounds or environment as such. Before going somewhere where you have never been before, you can previously look at the photos of this place to have interesting ideas in advance where and what to shoot. Use Google Maps and “walk virtually through the streets”. It can help you also in finding the right spots for your photography. Write the addresses down on the paper, or mark the places

There are different websites that provide the opportunity to publish your photos for free and make them publicly available. You do not need to be a web-designer and to have your own webpage. All you need to do is to register whether on Google Photos , Flickr or even Instagram , and publish your photos there. Consider making a photobook of your best photos. It can be ordered in your city. A lot of firms and photo shops offer such a service. You can choose 20 best photos and order 5-10 copies of the photobook. Such photobook will be original and unique present for your friends. You can make photobooks annually with your best 20 photos, and collect them on your shelf at home. After a certain period of time you will be able to assess your own progress in street photography, which is very important. Printed photos are better than on computer’s screen.

Street photography is usually a black and white photography. So, copy your photos on your computer, install a software for post-processing of photos (e.g. free software like XnView , GIMP can be used for these purposes at the beginning). You will have to turn your photos into black and white, or reduce saturation to 85-90%, and increase contrast, too. Some more advanced software apps provide also opportunity to add a vignette and matte effect by playing with the tone curve and do other manipulations with the photo.