Street photography is just simple math.

There’s no need to overcomplicate it. You don’t need to deep dive into every technical aspect or watch hundreds of YouTube videos giving you a hundred different pieces of advice.

All you need is a little walking and a little shooting.

Let’s say you want to come home with five keepers. Go shoot 100 photos.

If you want to come home with 50 keepers, go shoot 1,000 photos.

It’s simple math.

You’re probably going to have a keeper rate of around 5%, so the more you shoot, the more keepers you’re going to have.

Even if you don’t know what you’re doing yet, or you’ve just started, or you’ve been photographing for years but only take 30 or 40 photos when you go out, just shoot a lot.

The more you shoot, the more opportunities you give yourself.

You might not even know what’s a keeper right away. Sometimes a photograph doesn’t reveal itself until months later. You come back to it and suddenly realize it’s better than you thought.

Personally, I’d recommend staying on top of your archive. Go home, review your photographs, and delete the ones you know you don’t want to keep.

But beyond that, it’s simple.

Just shoot a ton.

Photograph the storefront.

Photograph the pavement.

Photograph the light hitting a wall.

Photograph a trash can.

Photograph shadows.

Photograph interesting textures.

Anything that catches your attention.

If you want, photograph every single person who walks by.

Every one of them.

I guarantee that when you get home and look through your photographs, you’ll find images you really like that you never would have made if you’d been more selective.

That’s all it is.

Simple math.

Shoot as much as possible.