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For my Zoom background (all Zoom backgrounds are my original photos which i took in person 📷 💃)…

This is for a wall background. Usually, for street photography, I learned from several award-winning professional photographers in a seminar sponsored by the UP Film Institute years ago organized by Dean Armi Santiago, to make sure there is scale and there is movement or motion, and human interest — the easiest to show motion and human interest is to wait for something to happen — a movement or motion or someone walking by — every passerby on the street has “motion and emotion”… and without showing their face as respect for their data privacy (or a cat or dog etc to nonchalantly saunter within the frame — they don’t mind too much about their data privacy 🐈🐕🐱) …

… sometimes, you have to wait…don’t mindlessly shoot if it’s street photography… Show motion and emotion or show human interest, it requires patience, here’s a mediocre example from amateur me (my original street photography is mediocre, don’t mind me) from the archives here:

… Maraming shots po iyan (this took several shots) because the rider-biker was fast-moving, you had to shoot him at that point before he blocks the heart shrubbery … so i took anticipatory shots before he got to the point of a split-second before crossing the sculptured heart shrub 🤸… “moving target” si Kuya Rider 🕺🧚

An extended Happy Valentine’s Day!!! 💘