Want to get into street photography? Here are 5 things you should know before starting out.
Steam vents, suited businesspeople, the neon glow of the night, umbrellas on windy days, stray glances through bus windows, beachgoers in a boardwalk scene, or silhouetted figures dancing in the sunlight: as photographers, we want to capture things that give life and vivacity to the subjects of the streets. We capture their spirit and do it in a visually interesting way.
This may sound obvious, but street photography is about opportunities. Opportunities are often fleeting. If you want to capture that decisive moment, you’ll want to be ready in an instant before the moment is gone. Otherwise, that interesting subject is a blur, or the exposure is wrong, or the focus is off, and what would have been your artistic masterpiece is completely lost.
or creating distracting noise through high ISO levels. I find that setting your shutter speed between 250 and 500 at a base level can help avoid most camera shake or subject blur issues. This assumes you are shooting traditional full-frame focal lengths such as 35 and 50mm. Longer focal lengths or high-speed activities like sports of course require higher shutter speeds.‘f/8 and be there.’
One strategy is to pre-focus on a scene. You find your framing, compose the scene, and let the subject walk into the scene. Boom. No need to focus on the fly. Another strategy is zone focusing. What is zone focusing? This could be the subject of an entirely new article, but the TL;DR version is that you manually focus a certain distance in front of you and get good at estimating that distance when a subject is in that space. Then click.
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