Technique and style6 min read
Which camera for street photography is right for you?
You want to get out on the street, but you're still at your screen comparing cameras. Choosing a camera for street photography starts with what feels…
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Articles on street photography: technique, observation, the law, and getting started.
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Technique and style6 min read
Street photography tips for beginners: where do you start?
Someone walks through beautiful light, but you're still adjusting your settings. How do you keep photography simple enough to notice what's happening in front…
Technique and style6 min read
Street photography with your phone: how to get started
Someone pauses, looks back, and keeps walking. You have your phone with you, but before you can take the photo, that little moment is gone.
Technique and style6 min read
Street photography in the evening and after dark
Someone walks past a lit store window. For a moment, the light catches a face, then it disappears into the dark again.
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The decisive moment in photography
Someone is walking toward a strip of light between two buildings. You've already chosen your composition, but when do you press the shutter: as they first step…
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Composition in street photography: choosing what to show
Someone walks past a building and you see a photo, until a doorframe ends up right behind their head. One step to the side can be enough to bring everything…
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28mm or 35mm for street photography, or perhaps 50mm?
You see someone you want to photograph, but your frame is mostly street. Taking a few steps closer changes the photo, as does choosing a different focal…
Technique and style4 min read
Black and white or color
One yellow umbrella among a sea of black ones: color makes a difference there. In another street photo, you mainly want to see the look on someone's face, and…
Technique and style5 min read
Creating a photo series
You see someone step through a doorway and think: I've photographed something like that before. That can be the start of a series, with a photo that seems to…
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Finding your own style
You’re looking through your photos and there’s someone standing halfway in a doorway again. Different street, different person, but apparently that keeps…
Technique and style5 min read
Street photography in hard light
A white wall in full sun, a doorway that turns almost black, and someone walking between the two. Street photography in hard light starts with contrasts like…
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Photography in the rain
At a station exit, someone hesitates under an umbrella while someone else keeps walking. Photography in the rain starts with small decisions like these.