As always, thanks for watching! If you enjoyed it and found the tips useful please pop a like and a comment down below, it really helps spread the video to more people to check out! 😊
This is the best instructional street photography video I've seen so far, out of quite a few. Plus, the amazing images are the proof that I can be confident in his advice.
Amazing how many good tips you can fit into 10 minutes. I really find night a kind of comfy blanket wrapped around me,, maybe I'm strange, but I love it. Agree a longer lens is a good idea for night, even if you can only open up to f2.8 that's still very useable. Rain can make for great photos in the day and at night it's just magic, lighting really comes alive. Thanks for posting.
Thank you so much, Trevor! I really appreciate the long go comment. Yeah totally agree with you, not strange at all. I’m glad you enjoyed the tips - happy shooting :)
Hi Tim! I really enjoyed these suggestions. Now, I want to do some night street photos! Hmmmmm.... Anyway, love these images and the reminder that night photography can be so interesting because the light is so different than day time.
Great video, probably one I’ll return to! I’ve been doing astrophotography lately for the most part but I’m thinking about giving nighttime street photography a try. It’ll be nice to give my camera something to do on those nights when astro isn’t on the cards. It’s also very refreshing to see someone with a positive attitude to noise.
Thanks Andrew! Glad you enjoyed it and it was helpful. Nice one, I really enjoy looking at astrophotography. Yeah 100%, let me know how you get on when you get out there for a bit if night street photography :)
Hey Tim. 03:41 was such a beautiful moment. I think that was my favourite. Good work again!! I have an idea for you! Can you do a relaxing video BUT with a smartphone (it can be auto or manual or both). Should be interesting.
Have you tried a black mist filter? Specially with pics that have neon light. You can add the same effect in post...but getting it in camera is always the best! Good luck!
Your video was published at the right time for me. I retired yesterday. No real concrete plans yet. I do want to spend more time doing photography. I’ve never done night photography other than Times Square Ann d that is almost daylight. I have been inspired by the photography of Ernst Haas and soul lighter. If they can produce wonderful images like they did with film cameras I certainly can produce images at night with my digital cameras. I do use Fuji and look forward to taking your recommendations to heart. Mask On Nurse Marty
Thanks Tim. Always helps to get new ideas or reminders. Personally, I leave the ISO on Auto. The cameras are so good these days that a higher ISO doesn't make a lot of difference. Personally, I set a minimum 1/250 because I don't have a steady hand, lens wide open and yes, you're quite right, a 50mm on APSC is ideal.
I got Auto iso 3 set for low light and night. Max iso set to 6400 and min shutter to 1/100th. Could go lower possibly with shutter when no moving subject due to ibis.
Thank you! Lots of reasons to shoot prime, they are faster, open up wider, let in more light, are often sharper, are generally small and unobtrusive, and they force you to be creative with a fixed focal length. Can still do street photography with a zoom tho :)
Congratulations on your growths my friend..keep up the good work..great tips like the part of the layering and looking for light..would shutter priority work also ..btw canon m50 user here..tanx in advance
Great video! Would you be able to make a video on how you prep for going out in the rain/heavy snow? I have an XE4 and never quite sure how to prep the camera before I go out, so I end up not going
Thank you! Good point, my camera is weather sealed so I didn’t think to mention what to do for those who aren’t. Always carry an umbrella when raining and you can always wrap a camera in cling film to keep it safe :) might do a RU-vid shorts video about it!
For one don't have money... The lens 70-210mm f4 works for night street photography? I bought two lens this one and one 50mm f1.8 Nice video man. Thank you so much 😊
Fantastic video, just found your channel and started subscribing! A quick question. What’s your setting for metering when doing night photography? Once again, fantastic video!
@@timjamiesonphotos I only shoot B&W film and develop at home so a day out costs about 1-2 pints of beer ! I have a load of colour film in the fridge , I'm too tight to use it !! I do have a roll of cinistill 800 that may get used soon
Hello there, amazing video and very helpful. I've got a question, I'm a beginner night photographer with a panasonic camera and sometimes when i shoot at night on manual mode, the camera lets out a beep and the settings of aoerture and sutter speed on the screen become red for a second, and i can't shoot for some reason, do you have any idea why that might happen and how can i set my camera to avoid it? Thank you
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it. Sorry no idea, I only use Fujis at the moment. You should be able to find a tutorial for Panasonic settings online tho :)
Thank you so much for the really helpful videos. They have truly inspired me to venture into street photography. I do have a question regarding GDPR rules. I assume you don't ask for permission from every individual featured in your photographs :) Also, I'm curious about the aspect of intellectual rights. Can a person appearing in a street photo claim any rights over the image?
My pleasure! Glad you enjoy them and find them useful :). To answer your question, it really depends where you live. In the uk photos of people in public is perfectly legal so don’t need any permission and no one has any intellectual rights to your work even if featured in the photo :)
A well-done video, and a lot of great tips. But, as a formally-trained photographer, allow me to help you out with some technical advice. You may think it's pedantic, but just like any other industry, trade or skill, there are correct terms in photography. I know, for shutter speeds, it's common these days for RU-vid-trained photographers to say "one over 125" for 1/125, but it's actually quite wrong. If you want to project credibility or knowledge, the correct way is "one-twenty-fifth of a second" or "a hundred and twenty-fifth of a second." Likewise, 1/60 is "one sixtieth" (not "one over 60") and 1/500 is "one five hundredth" (and not "one over 500").
Help! I'm using an old dslr Nikon d5300, tried night street photography yesterday and I can't go up 1/60 or 1/100 of a shutter, and also can't go down ISO 4000, as the images turning out to be darker, even with a light source like a street lamp. I'm shooting wide open using a 50mm lens f1.8. What should I do?
Hello, with an older camera you’ll need to go for a higher iso and have more noise in your images at night, you can try a slower shutter speed and try to hold your camera steady, or you’ll need to go to somewhere that is a bit brighter, like the centre of a city with lots of street light :)
Hey, just recently got into photography and have a canon 700d with the efs 18-55mm lens. I want to start doing more potrait/night time street photography and was looking at the canon ef 50mm f/1.8 STM lens. Would you recommend this lens for a beginner?
Hey! You can’t go wrong with a nifty 50! But on a crop sensor camera like the 700d you may find it’s to narrow a field of view, or not! Definitely worth testing out first to see if you like the focal length, you might consider a 35mm instead, if the 50 is too tight. But at 1.8 that’ll let in plenty of light for night shooting, and creamy bokeh for portraits :)
Hey man, ISO is not an acronym, so we don't spell it out like I-S-O (EYE-ESS-OH). It's an abbreviation, so we say it like one word, EYESO. Just a heads up and a very big pet peeve.
Lol you really felt the need to write a comment about that? 😂 If you read it out as a word then it would be an acronym, so you’re contradicting yourself…
