Summer postcard views of Vologda

Postcard views of the city can be done at any time of the year, month, day or night. Any light can be used for beautiful pictures, you can shoot in any weather. Only the plot you choose will dominate. Only you choose whether it will be a postcard or a reportage photograph. What if it mix?

In a report, the main thing is not only the action or event, but also the message. Here, for example, in this photo you can pay attention to the colors of the cars. This is a random shot that doesn't show any bright cars. Statistics.

All genres have evolved historically over time. On old Soviet postcards, you can see the presence of a person and everyday life everywhere.

So reportage photographs can also be attributed to postcards.

I would even say that in those years the presence of a person or several people on postcards was mandatory.

And on old postcards, a car is almost always depicted. Yes, it looked more attractive there and created an environment. In a few decades, this photo will also be atmospheric.

Perhaps the concept of postcards has changed over time. Now you can print anything and call it postcard.

Less often, postcards of those years depicted daily life in close-up. In most cases, these were staged photographs. This photo cannot be attributed to postcards at all, because the purpose of the postcard view is to show the beauty and appeal of the city. And here it is already pure reportage...

This view will also not work because of the puddle in the foreground.

Everything should be beautiful on the postcard, be it a construction site or an old wooden house.

With this, I believe that postcard photography is almost a separate genre of photography.