20:36EXTREME 400mm Street Photography in Chicago POV
Expectation Violation
- Photographers know a 400mm lens is the wrong tool for street work, and that wrongness is the pull.
- The POV grip puts you behind the camera before you click.
- Extreme in the title stamps the experiment; the image promises you will live it.
Title
The title names a rule-breaking setup only photographers will fully feel.
Thumbnail
The first-person grip makes the viewer the one holding the camera.
If you teach a craft, try the wrong-tool experiment your audience would never dare, and shoot the image first person. Insiders click on broken rules. Cold outsiders may not get it, so save this for a niche audience.
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Breaking your niche's rules is a click for insiders.
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