How To Shoot Street Photography In Small Towns 

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The world has enough street photos of New York, London, and Tokyo. Trying somewhere else makes sense.

Your approach to small town street photography reminds me of a photography professor I had many many years ago in college. He always said. “There is always something interesting out there to photograph. It doesn’t matter where you are, or what time of the day, month, or year it is. The trick is, to learn to recognize them, and photograph them at interesting ways to make them stand out. Basically what you said in this video.

Yes Hunter! Loved your cinematography, nice chilled out friendly vibe, and obvs brilliant tips as well. 11/10!

From my limited experience I can say that my 85 1.8 (on aps-c) is the best choice for street photography in small towns. Late evening/night is good but so is also mid day, kids and working age people isn't put but old non working people are and they tend to not care or even notice me (bad vision? 😅). They are walking their dogs, sitting in parks and what not. Great subjects 👌

Some good advice in this video. I live in a small town and everything closes down by 7 pm, so evening/night photography choices are very limited. When shooting in a rural area you should also look for events like summer outdoor concerts, car meet ups, county fairs, etc. Also, look for things like public parks. They all provide good opportunities for photos.

Thanks for confirming that longer lenses can work in these situations!

I live in Toowoomba, QLD. Street photography requires mostly a longer lens, I use 18-200, cropped sensor. Streets pretty empty for a reasonable sized town.🇦🇺

Thank you so much for the honest sharing of overcome the challenge living in the small remote town for street photography. Similar to you, I am also going through the same stage of "Stagnation" with my own street photography. I used to enjoy shooting with the 28mm and 50mm and feeling quite comfortable to "get close" shooting on the busy streets of Beijing (as well as the other popular metro cities in Asia) for the past 3 years until moved to a small town in Northern Florida last summer. It is huge challenge for me to continue the same way I shoot on streets as there is an intensive sentiment of being offended taking photos of people on the streets without obtaining their permissions first...not even mentioning to take photos at night (Strange and Creepy for the local folks). I guess the COVID has largely changed how people interact with each in general sadly. On the other hand, I have no desire to take those "stranger portraits on streets" although some photographers have done the superb jobs in that style. Being a huge believer of capturing the Candid Moments is the most essential part for Street Photography, I decided to follow my all-time favorite Saul Leiter and encouraged myself to learn to observe the new environment through the focal lens of 90mm. This new perspective of much tighter and more compressed has not only brought me back with the enjoyment of out shooting but also motivated me to convey more 'street mystiques". After all we can only photograph what's in front of us. So let us make the best of what we got 👍👍Sen @AZYANGS

Great video Hunter, brilliant tips and insights! You've judt earned a subscriber!

Great video, good info and funny. Thanks

I really appreciate your perspective. Thank you.

Enjoyed this video Hunter….I like the delivery and content. Not everyone is fortunate enough to live in a big city filled with neon lights and a 24 / hour buzz😂

Cheers, I live in a small town and feel this. I lived in London for a year and never saw the same person twice, but if I got in someone's face in my town they would glare at me in the grocery store for the rest of our lives p.s. lol for the tip of being a stalker with a 135mm lens shooting in the dark at night. But as an old short man, who can neither confirm nor deny he likes to enjoy drinks in a pub, I wouldn't give any hoots about strange kids taking my portrait as long as they kept a respectful distance and seemed friendly. And good final tip too, any entrepreneur or small business owner would probably be looking for free advertising, so doing a detective/portrait kind of study of their work would probably be very well received

A fresh voice and perspective. Nice work. Keep it up Hunter👍

Great video thanks for sharing

Thank you for the tipps I have lived for few months in a place where there were 5 days a week 24 hour a day only 5 colleagues. I understand that in my case i went few times in a short hike to take photos an few other times i was ising the different hours of the day to shoot arpind tje main biildong, was a lovely place but people where there 1 or 2 fays a week

Do you have a link to Alex So you mentioned in this vlog?

Great video! Thanks

Interesting ideas and video.

Thank you

Going to try this, thanks. Btw. whats the song at the end please?

Subscribed because of the Slough comment

Just a video I needed to watch... I have lived in Birmingham, London, Dublin and other bigger places around Europe and now I live in a tiny TINY insular community with 2000 inhabitants in the countryside in Scandinavia... I can only describe my current life in 2 words.... boring and uninspiring when it comes to photograpy !!! Maybe I have to buy a long tele-lens and start shooting wildlife instead LOL BTW thanks for sharing your pix at the end... enjoyed. Clicking the subscribe now ;)

Brilliant Fantastic

great tips

Some decent suggestions.

lol... Slough!!

Slough :’D

Make sure you change your video environment every minute or so to keep the audience engaged!

Subscribed.

What about this scenario, and I'm sure it's becoming an issue in MANY area's around the globe, is how do you do photography/street photography, especially anywhere near downtown/high street areas when those area's are just jam packed with homeless and drug addicts?

I'm sorry, Alex who? You mentioned him @ 5:39

I am exactly in this position, I live in a boring town and I have shot the sh!t out of it and it’s still boring. I need to travel. If you want to photograph the mountains of South Island in New Zealand, you can’t substitute the local rolling flat hills. One has to travel the NZ the photograph the ginormous mountains and scenery. You can’t substitute Auckland or Christchurch for New York or London. It is what it is. You photograph a turd……….its a turd, no matter how much gold paint you put on it.

i saw the thing about autofocus and even tho i like your video i gave you a thumbs down to help with the algorythm. i just didnt want it this to show on my liked feed. hope you understand. thanks for your advice. have a good one ^^

To much talk, not enough exemples with your photos.... Thanks in advance