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Posts tagged night photography
How to Use Street Lights to Improve Your Night Street Photography

‘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.’

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The Simple Exposure Guide For Night Street Photography

Night Street photography is not too difficult once you get to grips with the settings that you need to use regularly. In this blog post we are going to take a look at the approximate Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO settings that you need to select in your camera, after dark.

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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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5 Tips that will Improve Your Night Street Photography Game

‘Are you just getting started with street photography or do you simply want to get the most out of your night time street photography? Here are five simple tips for you to get cracking with right away.’

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How To Choose The Right Shutter Speed For Night Street Photography

‘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.’

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Night Street Photography - Protect Your Highlights

‘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.’

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13 Tips for Shooting Urban Landscape Photography at Night

‘'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.’

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How to Choose the Best ISO for Night Street Photography

‘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’

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5 Urban Night Photography Composition Tips

‘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.’

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The Best Camera Settings for Urban Night & Street Photography

‘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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