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Quickly learn the street photography fundamentals you need to know so you can capture great photos!
Designed to help you conquer the philosophy and fundamental techniques of street photography, this handy and ultra-portable quick reference Pocket Guide helps you get the shot when you’re out on the streets. Follow along with documentary and street photographer Brian Lloyd Duckett, and you will:
- • Learn the three main approaches to street photography
- • Set up your camera for street photography
- • Develop a "street mindset" and build your confidence
- • Use the most effective shooting techniques
- • Find ideal locations for your photography
- • Understand what it takes to make a successful street portrait
- • Learn about the importance of shooting projects
LanguageEnglish
PublisherRocky Nook
Release dateMay 9, 2023
ISBN9798888141106
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Brian Lloyd Duckett
Brian Lloyd Duckett is a professional documentary and street photographer, and he runs the London-based StreetSnappers organisation. He runs street and documentary photography workshops around the world and is a brand ambassador for Fujifilm. Brian lectures extensively at camera clubs and photography societies and is a Visiting Lecturer on photography degree courses. His passion for educating street photographers continues through his YouTube channel (@streetsnappers) and his street photography podcast (The Streetcast). He also writes about street and documentary photography for travel, lifestyle, and photographic magazines. You can see Brian’s personal work at www.brianduckett.com and the StreetSnappers organisation at www.streetsnappers.com.
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Street Photography - Brian Lloyd Duckett
Cover: Street Photography: Pocket Guide by Rocky Nook
STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
POCKET GUIDE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PRE-SHOOT CHECKLIST
01STREET PHOTOGRAPHY FUNDAMENTALS
WHAT IS STREET PHOTOGRAPHY?
THREE APPROACHES TO STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
WHICH CAMERA?
LENS CHOICE
WHAT’S IN YOUR BAG?
CHOOSING A LOCATION
PLANNING
WEATHER & LIGHT
02CAMERA SETUP
EXPOSURE SETTINGS: SET IT AND FORGET IT!
FOCUSING
OTHER CAMERA SETTINGS
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
03STREET TECHNIQUES
DEVELOP YOUR STREET MINDSET
HUNTING VS. FISHING
WHERE TO SHOOT?
BLACK & WHITE OR COLOR?
SHOOT THE STREETS AT NIGHT
04STREET PORTRAITS
10 TIPS FOR SHOOTING STREET PORTRAITS
WHAT GEAR TO USE FOR STREET PORTRAITS?
05SHOOT PROJECTS
WHAT IS A PROJECT?
WHY SHOOT PROJECTS?
FINDING INSPIRATION
BRINGING YOUR PROJECT TO LIFE
WHAT NEXT?
06BUILD YOUR CONFIDENCE
12 TIPS TO BANISH THE FEAR FACTOR
DEALING WITH CONFRONTATION
SHOULD YOU DELETE AN IMAGE IF CONFRONTED?
07LAW & ETHICS
KNOW THE LAW!
PUBLIC VS. PRIVATE
USAGE
CHILDREN
YOUR ETHICS
PRE-SHOOT CHECKLIST
Check these settings before you head out with your camera!
WHAT IS STREET PHOTOGRAPHY?
Now there’s a controversial question to start things off! For the purposes of this Pocket Guide, we’ll take a fairly broad definition: a good starting point is candid public photography.
This amounts to photographing unstaged, unmediated encounters in public spaces. Does a street photo always need to include people? Usually, yes, but there’s no hard and fast rule; sometimes an implication or suggestion of humanity will suffice.
One of the difficulties we encounter as street photographers is how to make our world look interesting—and herein lies one of the problems with the genre. We have all seen boring pictures of a man crossing the road, someone sitting in a café window, a busker, or a homeless person. Are these scenes remotely interesting? Usually not, and they need something to elevate them to something worthy of our attention—and that something is usually a moment.
But more on that later.
As street photographers we must be a combination of observer, flâneur, storyteller,
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