Originally posted by GeneV I'm curious now what you mean by street photography.
Like I said: photos taken
from the street.
Quote: I understood street photography to be taken from the sidewalk.
Then it should be called sidewalk photography. But as English is a language which has us parking in driveways and driving on parkways I don't really expect that anyone would call photographs taken on the sidewalk "sidewalk photography"; that would make too much sense.
I had been doing most of my picture-taking from inside a truck....on the street.... and wondered if there were any other people who did the same, so I did a search on "street" and "photography" and was surprised (and a little irked) to learn that the term "street photography" was already in use. I had never heard of it before.
At any rate, the distances involved are greater than those the sidewalk photographers work with so a bit of telephoto is called for. Hence the 85mm and 105mm. Anything longer is too limiting and just a bit unsporting.
Some
street photos, according to my definition of "street photo". They will, of course, not meet with anyone else's definition of "street photo" (since they're actually talking about sidewalk photos, you see).