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Access Not Excess Is The Key To Great Photos
Michael Ernest Sweet, 12th June 2018

Access Not Excess Is The Key To Great PhotosThe key to great photography is a great camera, right? Wrong. Legendary photographs are surely made with technical perfection, right? Wrong again. Despite the fact that we see many serious amateurs buy [...]
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Keeping faith with film
Hugh Wilson, 25th April 2018

  Whether it’s family snaps or street photography, there is still a place for old school film and prints...   Digital has revolutionised street photography, allowing anyone with a smartphone or inexpensive digital camera to capture unexpected moments whenever and [...]
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2017 : Looking Back Through The Lens
Sergio Burns, 10th January 2018

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. [...]
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The Sunny Side Of Street Photography
Roger Hicks, 25th December 2017

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, [...]
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Street Photography: Do Shops Count?
Roger Hicks, 18th December 2017

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 [...]
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Street Photography: Consent
Roger Hicks, 27th November 2017

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 [...]
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Street Photography And The “image”
Roger Hicks, 14th November 2017

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 [...]
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Street Photography and LEARNING FROM YOUR MISTAKES
Roger Hicks, 28th September 2017

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 [...]
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Night of the living dead
Roger Hicks, 21st September 2017

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 [...]
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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 [...]
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