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Framing without framing

Roger Hicks, 10th July 2017

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 [...]

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Long-lens street photography

Roger Hicks, 3rd July 2017

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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Street photography in Arles

Roger Hicks, 29th June 2017

The opening week of the Rencontres Photographiques – literally, “Photographic Meetings” – in Arles in the first week of July is the biggest annual gathering of fine art photographers in the world. Over the course of a few days, you [...]

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Street photography : I know it when I see it

Roger Hicks, 26th June 2017

The improbably named American judge Potter Stewart (1915-1985) famously said in Jacobellin v. Ohio (378 US 184) that although pornography was extremely difficult or perhaps impossible to define, “I know it when I see it”. Street photography has a lot [...]

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Street photography basics : Choosing Kit

Roger Hicks, 21st June 2017

For years, I used to get angry with people who said, “It really doesn't matter what camera you use.” I thought, “Well, it's all very well for you, because you've got much better kit than I have, so of course [...]

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Street photography basics : Learning to shoot people

Roger Hicks, 21st June 2017

One of the many fascinating truths about all photography, not just street photography, is that it is often possible to assert with absolute truth and confidence two statements which are at first sight mutually incompatible. Here's a pair to be [...]

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Street photography basics : Carrying cameras on the street

Roger Hicks, 21st June 2017

Street photography obviously requires a camera; and the easiest way to get used to carrying your camera on the street is, well, simply to carry it on the street. But – here's the trick – don't take pictures of people. [...]

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The Slow But Sure Death Of The Camera

Michael Ernest Sweet, 20th June 2017

The camera is dead. No, I don’t really believe that statement, but let us continue with this sentiment as a “thought experiment”. To be clear, I am not talking about the long-proclaimed death of the compact camera. Surely that corpse [...]

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Looking Straight Down The Lens….

Sergio Burns, 20th June 2017

Look straight down the camera lens, the street will do the rest: Street photography and branded advertising Image credit - Nick Turpin A series of photographs in fleeting microseconds of the present, and just as suddenly, the past? An electric [...]

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Jill Freedman And Everything That’s Wrong With Street Photography

Michael Ernest Sweet, 20th June 2017

Image credit: Jill Freedman When I recently sat down to watch the exclusive Jill Freedman interviews, available here on StreetPhotography.com, I was not really prepared for what followed. Not only did I end up realizing that I absolutely love Freedman’s [...]

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Framing without framing

Long-lens street photography

Street photography in Arles

Street photography : I know it when I see it

Street photography basics : Choosing Kit

Street photography basics : Learning to shoot people

Street photography basics : Carrying cameras on the street

The Slow But Sure Death Of The Camera

Looking Straight Down The Lens….

Jill Freedman And Everything That’s Wrong With Street Photography

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