Why Gesture and Emotion Are So Important in Street Photography I find a fascinating aspect of street photography is that it can be so difficult to figure out the reasons why one photograph may work while another doesn’t. A successful photograph can be sharp or blurry, it can have soft and even light or …
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How to Do Event Photography – Tips for Business, Conference, and Family Events Event Photography is a lesson in extremes – you might be capturing one day a gala with gorgeous lighting, beautiful clothing, and lots of energy. Then the next day you could photograph a 10-hour industry event in a dimly lit conference room, …
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The Local by Nick Meyer How to Approach a Good Photobook The photobook is an artform inside the artform of photography. It transforms the individual photograph and can give it more power to tell a story, create an emotion, or push along a narrative. Whether creating a project or reading a photobook, you can see that …
Let’s Talk About Traditional Street Photography While there is a full range of topics surrounding street photography, especially how to do this in quiet places, suburban places, in your home, etc, I don’t want to leave the more traditional street photography out – the candid people photography, the decisive moment, the serendipitous, whatever you may …
Photographing ‘Close to Home’ There are the same amount of great photographs right outside your door as there are across the world. And in this case maybe more. You have a chance to deeply focus on what’s around you. To capture areas you know well and go to back over and over again, finding new …
Here’s a description of the progression of your everyday street photographer. I’ll just get right to it, but please take this as tongue in cheek! 1. The Brick Phase After watching the Vivian Maier documentary one day, you buy your first street photography camera. Your camera sits like a brick for a few months, except for …
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Stephen Greenberg We’ve recently been talking a lot in the Photo Salon about struggles that photographers are having, and motivation is certainly one of them. I share a lot of these struggles, and I think a big part of any creative practice is learning to fight through them as best you can. My biggest struggle …
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With Spring here, I think it’s time to fully embrace your inner photo weirdo. Seriously, hear me out. If you missed the Street Photography Anywhere class, a common comment was how uncomfortable people were to do this type of work – to shoot in quiet areas, to capture portraits of random people, to shoot in suburbs, …
