Street Photography for the Purist

With all the exactness in one’s photographic abilities that I’ve outlined, give yourself some leeway. Not all photographs are sh ...

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Practice. Conservatively, I’d say that you may get to the “within a half-stop” consistency that one needs to be able to make exp ...

An American tourist making a photo of other tourists being photographed by their guide. ...

Everything in this frame was chosen for a reason. ...

A touching moment between big scary dude and his son. ...

Every morning in Prague I walked past about the same time on the way to the set ... she was there. I hope she still is. ...

I followed this girl-quote-unquote for about forty minutes. Turns out she was a he. Guess I didn’t catch the broad shoulders and ...

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The last photo made in San Francisco during 2005 whilst showing my girlfriend at the time in for a visit from Italy would have b ...

I knew my angle of view from edge to edge. One only gets to know this by making thousands upon thousands of frames. I see framel ...

If you use the above photo of my little friend the scale as an example, you’d see that at f/5.6 I would have had between four an ...

And the practice. There are times when – given the tens of thousands of frames I’ve made – I’m just a little off. Being either o ...

And so on and so on. In my opinion the holy grail of street photography is the ability toshoot from the hip. You know your dista ...

I tried. I set up a Canon Eos 1D Mark II on a tripod – yes, a fucking tripod,just for you – pre-focused a mark, set the self-tim ...

I mean, really, would her quiet moment of contemplation have been the same if she were looking at me? Maybe the Asian gentleman ...

There are little photo stories everywhere. Rather than being a technician of light or a composer of geometric objects within a r ...

Maybe the photos would mean nothing to anyone that wasn’t there. But if it makes you remember that you were having your ownconte ...

Sometimes you can use a friend. In my case, a girl, usually, as a decoy. ...

And shoot over her shoulder. No one is the wiser. You’re just a young couple making a holiday memory. Even though you’re recordi ...