10 Great Street Photography Tips to Get You Started In 2023
It’s 2023. You want to learn Street photography but you don’t know where to start. Here are 10 tips that you can use as projects when you hit those City streets.
Joe Redski - Behind the Camera (or how I stopped worrying and learned to love photography as a person with a disability)
Some might say that I was born disadvantaged. Yet I had a headstart and I jumped into the realm of Earth, early.
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.’
The Street Photographers Guide to Aperture Priority
‘Aperture priority for beginners - this guide will help you if you want to go out and start shooting street photography today and want to have a fair amount of creative control over your camera settings and your images.’
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.’
How To Choose The Best Metering Mode For Street Photography
‘When I first started on my photography journey, I watched a couple of YouTube videos on metering, then set my camera to evaluative metering, (which measures the whole scene) and never thought about metering again, up until I became a street photographer. Now all I do is think about metering! Well, that's not exactly true, but I sometimes have to adjust my metering mode depending upon the subject that I am shooting on the streets and the light conditions that they are in.’
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.’
How to Use The Exposure Triangle For Street Photography
‘Ever wanted to know how the Exposure Triangle really works?
Once I understood and mastered how the Exposure Triangle worked, not only for Street Photography but for all genres of photography, I was able to make informed and creative choices when I took photos. I found that good exposure leads to less time trying to fix images in post-processing and more time out shooting and improving.’
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’
The Street Photographer's Guide to Autofocus
‘Single Shot Autofocus is probably the easiest mode to get to grips with. The camera simply focuses on a subject and doesn't continue to focus, once you acquire focus. It will lock onto a subject and stay locked providing you are half-pressing the shutter button or pressing the focus button if you are using back-button focus.’
How to Zone Focus With Your Camera - A Street Photographers Guide
‘Zone Focusing is great for street photographers. Using one of three simple methods you are manually pre-focusing your camera and lens and adjusting your aperture, for a specific distance where everything will be in focus and will have a deep depth of field, within that area (zone) that you have set the focus for.’
The Street Photographer's Guide to Auto ISO
‘When you are shooting Street photography, you want every opportunity to capture your subjects in that special moment. When they walk into the correct portion of the frame that gives the composition balance; or when they are doing something humorous or out of the ordinary. As Henri Cartier-Bresson said, you want to capture that 'decisive moment'.’
Brighton Street Photography - Composition Tips and Great Locations for Photographers
I love Brighton. It seems to be an underrated place for Street Photography. With its many unique and characterful areas and attractions, Brighton Town actually offers many interesting opportunities for great street photos.’
How To Shoot Street Photography on London's South Bank
‘The South Bank in the City of London is a fantastic place for Street Photography. Not only do you have the beautiful setting of the River Thames, the various uniquely structures bridges, the city skyline and St Paul's Cathedral to photograph, you also have a constant stream of people walking along with the river's edge eating and drinking outside cafés and chatting to family and friends. It really is a London street photographer's paradise.’
What Makes a Photo Nostalgic? - Seascapes and Street Photography on the Kent Coast
‘Holiday memories - Just thinking about those two words causes the brain to start creaking and dusting itself off. The hippocampus yawns and wakes up.’
The Best Aperture To Use For Street Photography
‘Aperture is fundamental for Street Photography because you want your subject to be in focus, but at the same time, you also want the background to be in focus as it provides context for your image’
10 Urban Street Photography Ideas
‘Shops make for an interesting project as their individual charm can shine through in their facade, window displays and lighting.’
The Best Camera Settings for Urban Night & Street Photography
‘I have spent endless nights experimenting with camera settings so that I can take decent night Urban Photography images without having to worry about changing them too often. Here are some of my tried and tested settings for you to try out.’
5 Cool Night Street Photography Tips
‘I currently do two types of Street photography - with people and without.’