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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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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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How to Zone Focus With Your Camera - A Street Photographers Guide

‘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.’

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The Street Photographer's Guide to Auto ISO

‘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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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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