Reportage street wave. Part 3

Reportage photography can include almost all genres. In general, genre classification is very interesting – there is landscape, street photography, reportage, portrait, night photography, etc. But the landscape can be classic, or it can be reportage. The portrait can be both classic and reportage, and even in the street style.

As in street photography, there can be a landscape...

There is also architecture, minimalism, and graphics...and all this is mixed up with each other.

I have learned, at least for myself, to distinguish all genres by frequency.

It's all felt internally, according to the mood.

For how many posts in a row I have been discussing this topic and trying to explain what distinguishes the genres of photography, between which the lines are very blurred.

And now about one more nuance!

If you photographed a classic urban landscape (or let's call it a "postcard view") on the wave (frequency) of postcards and beautiful aesthetic views, and some publishing house or media used it as an illustration with a reportage message, then such a frame will have two meanings.

Therefore, the frequency of the landscape is always close to the reportage. To be honest, everything is close to the reportage, since it is the most multifaceted genre.

But more important is the message, the mood, the wave at the time of shooting, not after.

The internal code and all the keys are laid with the mood – the perception of the environment depends on it.

In simple words, I can simply ignore something on one wave and see completely different things on the other.

It seems to me that there is no universal extended creative wave where you can see everything at once.

Agree, you shoot the landscape at sunset with one mood, and people on the street during the day with a completely different one. These are the frequencies.

There can be many different frequencies and everyone has their own, because everyone sees differently and everyone has different genre preferences.

But if there are major genres, then there are also major frequencies. And not every photographer of one genre will understand another photographer who prefers a different genre. This is true in music, in painting, and in any other field.

PS: I love heavy music (rock, metal), but when I started communicating with the same fans of heavy music, I was surprised how one metalhead could not understand another. One listens to thrash & heavy and doesn't understand at all who listens to power metal. And I generally like thrash, death, black, but I don't like nu metal or power. And it's all about the frequencies. Can you imagine what I'm talking about? And it's all one genre - metal! Not even rock! Music is more difficult, photography is easier. The main thing is to learn how to distinguish a good photo from a bad one. The rest is not important.