‘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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When I first started out on my photography journey, before I really got into street photography and was focusing my efforts on still life and landscape photography, I used to really get into editing my images. This meant that I took up to an hour adding detail, adding colour, adding clarity, reducing the Highlights slider to 0 and increasing the Shadows slider to 100
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‘ISO 1600 - 6400. Aperture f /2.8 - f /1/4. Shutter Speed 1/80 sec - 1/200 sec. Put simply, this is a great starting point for the settings on your camera for easily getting to grips with night street photography.’
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‘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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I know this from first-hand experience - it can be a minefield knowing what settings to use for your night street photography pursuits. That's why I've created this handy guide to the settings that I currently use, that hopefully, you can use too.
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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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’
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‘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.’
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‘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'.’
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‘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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‘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’
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‘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’
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‘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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‘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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