‘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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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 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.’
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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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‘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.’
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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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‘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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‘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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‘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 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.’
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