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The Street Photographer’s Guide to the Ancient Citadel of Rye

‘Rye in the UK, is a great place for street photography. With its cobbled and winding streets, ancient Tudor style buildings, its many pubs and eating establishments, there is ample opportunity to photograph tourists and locals wandering around, looking in shops and coming out of pubs, oh so slightly inebriated.’

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My Awesome Settings for Night Street Photography (and Why You Should Use Them Too)

I know this from first-hand experience - it can be a minefield knowing what settings to use for your night street photography pursuits. That's why I've created this handy guide to the settings that I currently use, that hopefully, you can use too.

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5 Tips that will Improve Your Night Street Photography Game

‘Are you just getting started with street photography or do you simply want to get the most out of your night time street photography? Here are five simple tips for you to get cracking with right away.’

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The Definitive Guide to Manual Mode for Street Photographers

The M mode on your camera will give you complete control of all of your settings. In Manual Mode, the manual settings give you complete control of the ISO, the shutter speed, and the aperture. The brilliance of Manual Mode is that you get to have complete creative control over the look of your images.’

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The Definitive Guide to Shutter Priority for Street Photographers

In my opinion, Shutter Speed is the most important element of street photography - you want to be able to freeze the action, freeze your subjects, or blur them, and shutter speed is the answer, giving you all the control you need to do so.

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The Street Photographer's Guide to Exposure Compensation

‘Exposure Compensation is great when you want to reduce those highlights or reduce the brightness on that almost blown out sky, when shooting street photography. It is also great when things are looking a little too dark, even though the camera seems to think that it has a correct exposure.’

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How to Start Street Photography - A Definitive Guide for Beginners

‘Street photography is the kind of photographic genre that you can do without too much fuss. Unlike Landscape Photography, you seldom need to get up at the crack of dawn. Unlike Wildlife Photography you don't need to spend hours waiting in insect riddled grass waiting for your subject to walk into frame, and you don't need to ask people to pose in a certain way and fiddle around with bright lights, as you would with portrait photography.’

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10 Street Photography Ideas For You To Try Out Today

‘Silhouettes are a great street photography project for a couple of reasons. Number one, you get to learn how to meter for a specific area with your camera's inbuilt light meter. And you also get to create punchy, powerful images, that have extreme contrasts between the highlights and the shadows’

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