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Shutter Priority is a Great Mode for Beginner Street Photographers

‘When you select Shutter Priority, it is important to know that, whilst you have full control over the Shutter Speed, the camera will pick the Aperture. What Aperture the camera chooses is dependent on how slow or fast the Shutter Speed that you have chosen is, and also how low or high your chosen ISO, is.’

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Joe Redski - Behind the Camera (or how I stopped worrying and learned to love photography as a person with a disability)

Some might say that I was born disadvantaged. Yet I had a headstart and I jumped into the realm of Earth, early.

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The Street Photographer’s Guide to the Ancient Citadel of Rye

‘Rye in the UK, is a great place for street photography. With its cobbled and winding streets, ancient Tudor style buildings, its many pubs and eating establishments, there is ample opportunity to photograph tourists and locals wandering around, looking in shops and coming out of pubs, oh so slightly inebriated.’

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The Street Photographers Guide to Aperture Priority

‘Aperture priority for beginners - this guide will help you if you want to go out and start shooting street photography today and want to have a fair amount of creative control over your camera settings and your images.’

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The Street Photographer's Guide to Exposure Compensation

‘Exposure Compensation is great when you want to reduce those highlights or reduce the brightness on that almost blown out sky, when shooting street photography. It is also great when things are looking a little too dark, even though the camera seems to think that it has a correct exposure.’

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How To Choose The Best Metering Mode For Street Photography

‘When I first started on my photography journey, I watched a couple of YouTube videos on metering, then set my camera to evaluative metering, (which measures the whole scene) and never thought about metering again, up until I became a street photographer. Now all I do is think about metering! Well, that's not exactly true, but I sometimes have to adjust my metering mode depending upon the subject that I am shooting on the streets and the light conditions that they are in.’

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