‘Most of us have a best friend. However, they generally are not with us when we are out shooting night street photography. This is actually a good thing because one, they will probably distract you; and two, your current best friend is about to be replaced with a new best friend - the streetlamp.’
Read MoreThe M mode on your camera will give you complete control of all of your settings. In Manual Mode, the manual settings give you complete control of the ISO, the shutter speed, and the aperture. The brilliance of Manual Mode is that you get to have complete creative control over the look of your images.’
Read More‘Street photography is the kind of photographic genre that you can do without too much fuss. Unlike Landscape Photography, you seldom need to get up at the crack of dawn. Unlike Wildlife Photography you don't need to spend hours waiting in insect riddled grass waiting for your subject to walk into frame, and you don't need to ask people to pose in a certain way and fiddle around with bright lights, as you would with portrait photography.’
Read More‘Ever wanted to know how the Exposure Triangle really works?
Once I understood and mastered how the Exposure Triangle worked, not only for Street Photography but for all genres of photography, I was able to make informed and creative choices when I took photos. I found that good exposure leads to less time trying to fix images in post-processing and more time out shooting and improving.’
Read More‘In order to get sharp shots at night, you will need a fairly fast Shutter Speed of around 1/125 sec - 1/200 sec. If you pick a slower value you risk the chance of getting blurry shots. If you go much faster, depending on your ISO value, you risk your exposure becoming underexposed.’
Read More‘Silhouettes are a great street photography project for a couple of reasons. Number one, you get to learn how to meter for a specific area with your camera's inbuilt light meter. And you also get to create punchy, powerful images, that have extreme contrasts between the highlights and the shadows’
Read More‘Single Shot Autofocus is probably the easiest mode to get to grips with. The camera simply focuses on a subject and doesn't continue to focus, once you acquire focus. It will lock onto a subject and stay locked providing you are half-pressing the shutter button or pressing the focus button if you are using back-button focus.’
Read More‘Zone Focusing is great for street photographers. Using one of three simple methods you are manually pre-focusing your camera and lens and adjusting your aperture, for a specific distance where everything will be in focus and will have a deep depth of field, within that area (zone) that you have set the focus for.’
Read More‘When you are shooting Street photography, you want every opportunity to capture your subjects in that special moment. When they walk into the correct portion of the frame that gives the composition balance; or when they are doing something humorous or out of the ordinary. As Henri Cartier-Bresson said, you want to capture that 'decisive moment'.’
Read More‘I primarily think of myself as an Urban and Street Photographer, however, I started my outdoor photography journey shooting landscape shots. From time to time, I still venture out to the local countryside to capture a few sunset landscape photos and sometimes sunrise.’
Read MoreI love Brighton. It seems to be an underrated place for Street Photography. With its many unique and characterful areas and attractions, Brighton Town actually offers many interesting opportunities for great street photos.’
Read More‘I hit the streets of Rye the other night. It's definitely tourist season, there were loads of people around. It's not so great if you want peace and quiet, but it certainly is great if you're shooting street photography.’
Read More‘Holiday memories - Just thinking about those two words causes the brain to start creaking and dusting itself off. The hippocampus yawns and wakes up.’
Read More‘I literally jumped from the frying pan into the fire when I first started my outdoor photography journey.
I fell into street photography by accident when I visited the beautiful beach of Perranporth, Cornwall. I was kind of amazed by how my images actually turned out, considering I was a complete novice photographer at the time.’
Read More‘'Where are you going with this?' you might be thinking...
Well, if you take these landscape photography composition rules and apply them to your street photography, you will be creating urban landscape images.’
Read More‘Aperture is fundamental for Street Photography because you want your subject to be in focus, but at the same time, you also want the background to be in focus as it provides context for your image’
Read More‘Shops make for an interesting project as their individual charm can shine through in their facade, window displays and lighting.’
Read More‘If you're shooting Street Photography at night, depending on the amount of ambient light, you will want to use an ISO value of approximately 1600 - 6400’
Read More‘Light, Layers and Framing. I am constantly thinking about these compositional elements when I am shooting Urban Night Photography. Here are explanations of how I utilise them in my work and will hopefully provide some tools for you to use when you are out shooting.’
Read More‘I have spent endless nights experimenting with camera settings so that I can take decent night Urban Photography images without having to worry about changing them too often. Here are some of my tried and tested settings for you to try out.’
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