I couldn't let 2017 slip away without a backward glance at my own personal street photography year. This year I have had the privilege of talking to some of the most exciting, established and up and coming street photographers around. [...]
I couldn't let 2017 slip away without a backward glance at my own personal street photography year. This year I have had the privilege of talking to some of the most exciting, established and up and coming street photographers around. [...]
There are those who advocate shooting in overcast weather, because it's easier: no harsh contrasts. I've never really understood this line of argument. After all, it's easier still to stay at home and watch television, or go to the beach, [...]
Before the widespread adoption of window-glass (especially large sheets of plate glass), most shops were necessarily in the street. As early as they could bear to get up, or sometimes earlier, shopkeepers would open their shutters and literally set out [...]
Getting consent from your subjects – I almost said “victims” – is a perennial question in street photography. At the extreme, of course, you can ask them for a model release: consent in writing. The trouble is, this normally results [...]
Copyright © Roger Hicks GIRL WITH GLASS: For me, this is a snapshot. A bit more carefully composed than most, perhaps; better quality than many; slightly cropped from the original; even burned in a little in places, to emphasize the [...]
We all make mistakes. We get our exposures wrong. Depth of field is insufficient (though increasingly many regard this as an advantage, not a drawback). Shutter speeds are too long, resulting in blur from subject movement or camera shake. Colour [...]
A lot of street photography is pure luck. You can haunt the likeliest places to get a good picture; you can plan all you want. But unless things come together, you ain't gonna get the picture you want. Often, you [...]
Visual Stories : The Cinematic Effect – Framing The Fake Movie Still
Sergio Burns, 18th September 2017
Don't you like the word sub-genre? Sounds like sub and 'John Ra', and means a stylised part or category within a 'genre'. Cinematic street photography is one, often quoted, sub-genre of regular street photography. But what is it, why do [...]
In my immediately previous column I used a picture of a broad scene at night, shot with a wide-angle lens at the maximum ISO on offer from the camera in use: a Leica M8, 2500. Here, it's the same camera [...]
Street photography at night is hard to resist, partly because it can be so dramatic and partly because so many of us are at work during the day and have more free time during the hours of darkness.
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