Category: Tips and Techniques
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Youngjae Lim Says Seek “New Eyes”
I came across today’s quote in an article by Chris Gampat for The Phoblographer, “13 Motivational Tips from the NYC Street Photography Collective.” There’s plenty of gold to mine from the tips included, but one quote stuck out particularly from Youngjae Lim: “The real journey of discovery in street photography consists not in seeking new…
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Summer Street Portraits
99% of the time when shooting on the street, I hit the shutter unannounced, completely candid. When I first started, not asking was this moral operative that somehow purified my practice, as if the Street Photography God was watching and doling out brownie points. Kind of weird, I know, but I was new to the…
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My First Time Shooting Film For Street Photography
I didn’t start dabbling in photography via my marketing job until 2010 — well past the technological shift from film to digital that occurred in the early to mid aughts. A half a decade later, the summer of 2015 was when I began focusing on street photography. That said, I’m a “born digital” shooter who’s…
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Shoot Like Steph
A couple months ago, I wrote about the key to capturing the Decisive Moment: anticipation. The key to snapping it isn’t seeing and reacting (as that’s usually too late), it’s sensing when it’s about to happen. Last night against the Kings, Steph Curry put on an anticipation clinic with 27 points and 12 assists, not…
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Street Photography Key: Anticipation
As handed down by street photography forefather Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment is the precise time and place street shooters hope to uncover and capture. The street is a public stage, with passersby as the actors stepping into its sun-lit spotlight. However, for most who walk through it, both as participants and unconscious witnesses, the…