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.
Visual stories : reflections on street photography and existential resonance
Sergio Burns, 21st August 2017
Glass is beautiful. Sure, it reflects our image, but there is something more, something deeper and more meaningful in the distorted feedback from glass in street photography. A street photograph with glass as a backdrop, the light bouncing back from […]
Street photography deals in everyday scenes, right? And this is, believe it or not, an everyday scene. At least it is if you live in Moscow, where the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a traditional place for brides to […]
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. Most people attribute this to Mark Twain, but it was probably his friend Charles Dudley Warner who actually said or wrote it. Either way, when it comes to street […]
What are people thinking at that moment they are photographed on the street? These humans of the everywhere? What are they thinking at that moment of the click? Ordinary individuals moving silently through the drama of their lives when they […]
A trick often touted in street photography is shooting “blind”. Point the camera in roughly the right direction, then press the shutter without looking through the viewfinder. It’s useful if you’re somewhere you aren’t allowed to take pictures; or where […]
Most people favour something in the 35mm to 50mm range for street photography, though there are those who prefer wider lenses and a few who prefer something a bit longer. This is, I think, the longest lens I’ve ever used […]
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