‘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 you select Shutter Priority, it is important to know that, whilst you have full control over the Shutter Speed, the camera will pick the Aperture. What Aperture the camera chooses is dependent on how slow or fast the Shutter Speed that you have chosen is, and also how low or high your chosen ISO, is.’
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It’s 2023. You want to learn Street photography but you don’t know where to start. Here are 10 tips that you can use as projects when you hit those City streets.
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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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The job consisted of taking photos for an outdoor event that lasted pretty much the entirety of the afternoon in a small seaside town in East Sussex, called Bexhill.
But how did I take these photos and what settings and methods did I use? And how does event photography correlate with street style photography?
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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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In my opinion, Shutter Speed is the most important element of street photography - you want to be able to freeze the action, freeze your subjects, or blur them, and shutter speed is the answer, giving you all the control you need to do so.
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‘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.’
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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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‘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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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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‘The South Bank in the City of London is a fantastic place for Street Photography. Not only do you have the beautiful setting of the River Thames, the various uniquely structures bridges, the city skyline and St Paul's Cathedral to photograph, you also have a constant stream of people walking along with the river's edge eating and drinking outside cafés and chatting to family and friends. It really is a London street photographer's paradise.’
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‘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‘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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‘I currently do two types of Street photography - with people and without.’
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