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Exactly. That's one of the ways to stand out in this saturated world of photography. Build your own style, shoot in a way that's enjoyable for you, and get some bangers out there
@{Yasenia} Well, there is no law against taking photos of people in public places in Japan but Japanese people like to keep their privacy so, it will be better if you ask a permission before you shoot someone.
@@noxiousnova07 @Hot Toddy....only Japanese likes privacy? :) Everyone on earth does and the most friendliest place on earth to take photography is Thailand! They really are generous with it however that Isi not suggesting abusing the hospitality, followed by China.
Tips covered in this video 5. Forget about settings 4. Use Prime over Zoom lens 3. Spent more time seeing Vs capturing 2. Shoot in all weather 1. Crop your Images
Don't get caught up in burst photography. Try to take one at a time to learn what you are photographing. Otherwise you should put the camera on video and shoot all day then go back and find the image you think you like best. Anticipate the photo from being acquainted with your surroundings. Be like an orchestra conductor, practice your score, assemble your orchestra, have the individual instruments work together, get their attention, start the music, get into the rhythm of the scene/score, be the action part, involve yourself, hum the tune, move your body, anticipate what is coming up. Do a dry run through several times, no photos taken, no pixel peeping, choose some sort of composition or theme to your photography, take a "wet" run; take test photos, then run through them, then interact with the action or scene as a very observant bystander. The camera is the tool, as are the musical instruments, and you are the conductor! You know the left and the right, the foreground and the background, the top and bottom views. Above all practice, practice, practice before the concert. Raymond
There was a photographer, he always took pictures from far away because he was to shy. But he did it his own way, and they where really nice. So if you really wanna to it, you will find your own way
Do it together with friends and if they don't like doing things like that, just use a zoom lens. You can easily photograph people from a distance without them noticing.
i feel the exact same way. my friend goes around constantly taking photos of people and i dont know how he does it, to me it just feels so invasive. So many times ive seen people try to physically dodge the frame when I've got my camera and it just makes me feel so bad
@@abstractions1816 hence why using the 85mm lens helps, you can be at a distance away from your subject yet get a close up shot without the feeling of intrusion.
I'm also not comfortable with taking pictures of people on the street. But what does help is the same thing what Isaac Sánchez Jin in the comments said: use a zoom lens. I know that in the video he said is to don't use a zoom lens. But if you're not comfortable with it and you definitely want to try street photography, you should just try the zoom lens. You can photograph people from a distance and they don't even notice.
after watching some of your videos i decided to go that night outside by myself since it was snowing and shoot with a non-weathersealed camera i just had to use an umbrella and i was blown away by the results i think those were my best pictures that i have ever taken. so i must thank you for the motivation that i got lately.
@@Jorpando just got myself a 85mm 1.4... its totally worth it! i have this lens on my camera and take my ricoh gr3 wirh me which is a small aps-c camera with a fixed 28mm
I recommend a zoom covering 24-120 or thereabouts. You'll catch many more good moments than having using a prime. But P. L. seems more interested in posed street portraits, so a prime is fine for that.
my tips for street photos would be that your gear and your settings don't matter , yes prime lens are better over zoom for the reason pierre explained in the video , but if you are a beginner or don't have a lot of gear and simply have a 18-55 or any other lens don't worry , just use what you get personnaly there a lens i want for street photo and it's a 100mm but i can't afford it so i use my 70-210mm to make it happen , how ? i have an aps-c sensor , meaning that all of my lenses are 1.5x "bigger" than they really are a 70 will be transformed into a 100 and a 18-55 into a 27-70 or something around thoses lines , you can try to never zoom for example and act like you have a prime lens for me gears is cool but it doesnt matter that much if you are not planning on going pro and even at that moment , you don't need insanely highly priced gear for your 2/3first years even more a good camera don't cost a lot theses days and the most important anyway is the glass that you put on it , but again , your gear is a tool , you are the craftsman , if you don't understand your gear and how to use it even with the best gear in the world you are gonna stay garbage for street photo if you don't want to feel weird or observed by others just pickup your smartphone , easier to carry and most smartphone can take amazing shots , most of them have a pro mode and most of them can shoot raw , you can also use your smartphone when you need wider angles , so if you are shooting with an 85mm which is in my opinion one of the best prime for street then just take out your phone instead of losing time changing lenses also , street photography isnt about getting stranger pictures/portrait , it can be whatever you want , + as long as you don't take "portrait" behind their back you should be fine , pictures where people enter the frame are totally fine since it's a public place , as long as you don't take and publish portraits without permission with street photo you can do so much so don't focus on portrait some examples: architecture , street life , playing with shadows and light etc, if you lack of ideas or don't really know what you want to do go on Flickr and instagram and try to find some concept you want to try out , note them on your phone , take some screen if necessary and then go have some fun a cool challenge could also be to create a series of photo with a concept , there is the concept of humans of new york for street portrait that i think is amazing go check it out on facebook , there are many great artist and street reporters out there so go and try to find some ideas of concept that you could either recreate with your own style or even create your own concept and at the end , don't ever forget that about photography , HAVE FUN , you should never feel forced to take photos NEVER
yeah kinda got carried away ahaha, could have said much more, re-reading it i realise that i also could have made it way shorter :') @@independencecreations
I've been doing photography seriously for about 16 yrs and I've never heard another pro photographer say "don't crop your images". All my profs encouraged it, as it can give a different or better perspective. You can learn so much from cropping. :-D
One very big and prominent photographer on RU-vid FroKnowsPhoto is probably the one a lot of people have heard it from. Stems from the school where he was trained that told you that you should only crop with your feet. I completely disagree with that philosophy.
Henri Cartier-Bresson (the pioneer of street photography) advises not to crop your images and to get everything perfectly framed in your viewfinder. Though he does admit to cropping one of his images because he was shooting through a fence at the time.
I think zooms are perfectly fine for an introduction to street photography. Perhaps even better for beginners. It takes a while to develop your eye for any type of photography and if you're glued to an 85 prime all day, you may miss a lot of shots because you weren't quite sure what your position should be, or you're in too tight of a space and aren't sure how to adapt to get the shot you want. Coming home with a bunch of missed shots can be discouraging and a zoom can help you get more out of your day as a beginner. You can reflect on the shots and start to understand where you might want to be for different focal lengths as you put more time into it and move into primes as you get comfortable. And the kicker, if you're going to crop, what does it matter? :D
IMO one of the biggest reasons of having so many megapixels in the first place is so we can crop. Isn’t that the whole point behind shooting 8k or higher footages? So you can zoom/pan in post? Sure it may feel bad when we’re cropping, it’s like throwing pixels in the trash; but ending up with a photo that looks amazing completely outweighs the cost. Are you spending thousands of dollars on camera gear so you can print “good” shots the size of your living room wall? Or so you can take amazing photos that make people have to look twice (and still be able to print them pretty big if you want to)?
“You do what you want and if it works out that is what is most important.” Love it. And I was getting some blurry images of a unicyclist the other day shooting in aperture priority. I don’t know why I never thought to set the minimum shutter speed. That might’ve helped
I’d love to see a film point and shoot session with a guest using inexpensive point and shoot film cameras from the 80’s/90’s.😀 Excellent video as always Pierre!!👍
I love street photography however I need to be careful in assessing people, situations and atmosphere as it could be not so positive at times. What photographers clothes themselves in would help, attires helps in projecting a non intrusive-suspicious-mysterious image of a photographer. A “I Love Photography” T-Shirt and smiles would help a lot I guess.
Thanks for this tip I'm new to photography and never knew what the minSS did. When I shot in AP mode my shutter speed was long and caused blurry shots.
Just because you are a great photographer with tremendous soul doe not mean you are a good editor of the shots you take. Vivian Maier is a good example of this..as far as I know she did not crop. I think of editing photos of just " get to the point".....and it's magic!
Thanks for great tuts. With my shallow experience: without a fancy camera, without sunny day sunny place, mimimum shutter speed in Aperture mode fails too many times, the light is always not sufficient, shutter speed usually turns out way slower.
I do not see a problem about cropping but the ignorant who said about never cropping.... is Henri Cartier Bresson, he never cropped is negative when passing onto paper..... so, I don't thing you should call him ignorant... do you?
These tips are one point, especially agree with point 3. With street photography you are an observer of the world, and if you focus on seeing, you'll find the moments to capture:))
I have a g85 and was wondering about the post focus setting. When would you use this setting? A great video and commentary. I live just north of Chicago in Quebec.
Hi Pierre. Thanks for sharing all these details and tips.
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I have shot a lot prime. For space reasons i now shoot on the 28-75 f2.8 but i still kinda "think prime" because i alway (not really on purpose) end up with shots at either 28, 35, 50 or 75mm.
if i had watched this a week ago, my first non-kit lens might have been a nifty fifty instead of my canon 55-250mm lol. But thats okay, I'm still super excited to use my new lens even if its not a prime! Going to go out and shoot tomorrow with my new lens!
yoo pierre thanks for the tips, but a question. i'm also sony user, but dont know hoy to do limitation to my shutter speed ehen using AF mode, be thankful if u show me how to do that
Great tips Pierre. Your personality really shines in all your videos. Hoping for more videos that show you talking through the process of taking an image 🙏
NEVER ever would I shoot by just looking at the display. Never. Period. Put the eye where it belongs: at the ocular or viewfinder, seeing what the lens see and not all the rest. Your mediocre pics are proof in case.
Hey! I'd love to see you do some macro photography for you 10 min challenge to see your approach. Your content is really inspiring and using some of your tips I took really cool street photos! Thanks a lot! 😉👍
I have been doing street photography for like a year now, and I already had 3 really powerful discussions about privacy and stuff like that. Even if it's a public area, so basically everyone could be there, everyone could see what I just photographed, they usually don't care. I don't know how other street photographers stay motivated like this, or am I just so lucky to have these people over here in Hungary? (Edit: I mean, I can understand them, but it's just very hard to stay motivated when you fear about what will happen next? Will they punch you in the face?)
Most folks like to remain private even in public places. Think about yourself. Do you like or allow others to photograph you with the possibility of that photo being shown around or published. Remember, by necessity, almost everyone needs to use a public area to get from point a to point b to exist. If you are more of an exhibitionist, you may not care if you are "captured." Even exhibitionists want privacy or at least be able to grant permission for its use and perhaps be given a fee for appearing in your photo. It is something to think about and be ready to have some subjects sign a "release" for permission to publish. You need that release contemporaneous with the taking of the photo because you have a high level of probability of not seeing your subject again, but rest assured your subject has a higher level of probability of seeing that published photo and if the subject disapproves you and your publisher are going to have some level of monetary liability. Raymond
@@raymondpayne7597 It's been a year now. I don't really remember anyone mindig me photographing them since then. Maybe it was just my luck. It needs to be mentioned though, I became a lot stealthier since then and I usually try to be the least intimidating possible. I also usually try to not make the people recognizable if not necessary. I understand the people who do not want to be photographed. I personally wouldn't mind at all someone photographing me on the street, but that's probably because I'm a street photographer myself. I never made a penny with street photography and I never want to earn money through this.
@@raymondpayne7597you only need a model release when using the photo for commercial purposes selling a product, service or brand. You don’t need a model release for artistic purposes such as selling photo books, prints, gallery showings etc…. This is for taking photos of people in public in the USA. Every country is slightly different.
Lol. You lucky you had only 3 discussions like that. Keeping in mind that most likely you will never meet with the same persons on the same place again helps a lot.
so is aperture the best mode to shoot in for night photography? I don't use manual at all because im still new to photography and its confusing to me at the moment still.
Great video! Do you use filters, particularly ND Filters? For FF primes, 24mm or 35mm for street and travel? I have a 50mm and 85mm, for some reason the 50mm just seems like an odd angle.
An interesting conflict in your top five.... Shoot with a prime, so you use your feet and physically move to get the shot you want. Then we have, tip one, about cropping.where you can crop out what you don't want in the shot. Which could be because you didn't move yourself enough. Because i come from the days of film, i always still move to get the shots. Old habits die hard,and of course, we didn't have the benefit of cropping in the way that we do today.
Good morning Pierre, I have seen that you use several hand straps for the camera. Can you tell me witch one is more confortable with the camera and small lens for street photography ?
Thanks for the tips. Do you bring non-wr lenses out in the rain? Or snow? I primarily use a 35mm and a 56mm on my fujifilm xt4. But i Picked up the wr 23mm as well for crappy weather. Do you think it's being overly careful?
I am very curious about ur aperture mode settings. I have to change the ISO manually and when its dark and street photography typically is things moving. "I cant set shutter speed limit either" but it will slow down in low light and the subject and many times cara will leave the annoying light trail behind. Any tips bros? Just trying to learn
I like street photography but my big mistake was too busy with the setting and I often missed actions. Shooting with A mode and setting the min SS are very helpful. Thanks 🤝
Quick Question: I'm a videographer and I want to get into photography although I have a question, in video we shoot with a flat colour profile to get the most out of our colours/highlights etc, is this the same with photography? Or do you shoot in Standard but in RAW so that you can control the colours? Thanks :)
Merci pour tes vidéos !!! Enfin c'est exactement ce genre de vidéos que je recherche , elles sont top !! J'ai une question , j'ai un budget de 1000 euros pour un boitier ,j'aimerai savoir lequel tu me conseillerai pour faire du portrait , de la photo de rue ?! Merci pour ta réponse . Merci pour ce que tu apporte aux passionnés comme moi .
Cropping is fine I agree 100%. When I used to work in the black and white darkroom years ago for the press, a 35mm negative has spare space above when printing on a 10x8 print (inches vs mm ). Plus, when you enlarge the image to expose on the paper, you can zoom right in on it to crop out messy backgrounds, exactly as you say. The famous classic B/W street photographers enlarged/ cropped their print from the negative. If we were all lucky enough to see the original negatives and contact sheet we would see lots of cropping going on. Make it look nice and clean in post….after all it is the digital age!! Thank for you video I really enjoyed your tips. Peace!
Another great video! I always learn so much from your tips and challenges. I’ve also really enjoyed your podcast. I’m just starting to shoot with the Sigma 85mm. I love my 50mm and 35mm prime.
Hello Pierre, love your photos and your enthusiasm. I would like to know what is the minimum Shutter speed you use in AV mode? Best Regards from Sweden//Adis
