Paris Street Photography

Dec 20

When I first visited in Paris back in 2011, I was a fledgling photographer, pointing my Canon Rebel XSi at everything with no real understanding of light or composition. I was simply excited to be in an iconic city and wanted to document every moment of it. Honestly, some days I wish I could go back to those early days in photography, eager to learn anything, willing to photograph everything, unabashedly putting work out into the world without my internal critic scrutinizing every image mercilessly. Perhaps this is simply what every artist goes through when creating, well anything.

I have certainly grown as a photographer, but will never claim to know it all or ever stop learning. The one thing that has remained, my love for learning and trying new things within photography. Wedding photography and street photography are wildly different genres, though the one skill required within both is paying attention to the scene as it unfolds.

As I continue to travel on a more frequent basis, I am playing around with street photography and getting comfortable with photographing strangers and even approaching them on the streets to ask for images. This is certainly different than having a couple who has paid you to be a part of their most important day and is happy to have a camera pointed at them (well, most of the time, ha!).

On my most recent visit to France, I spent about a day and a half in Paris and just wanted to share of those images, a mix of street and travel images edited a bit moodier than my typical edit. The whole point of photography and art is to experiment and try new things, even if it’s just a slight change in the way you edit an image. Enjoy!