Street Photography - but with a slow shutter speed 

Loved creating this video and hope you enjoy it! This is the ND filter I use: geni.us/NDFilter1.

I think the main appeal of slow shutter speed photography is that this is where my kit lens can shine!

Really loved this style of photo, especially in black and white.

2:32 this photograph is phenomenal, you inspired me to try this out tomorrow!

Frederik, I absolutely love your videos and mostly your photography. You make me want to head straight outside and take photos. Absolutely beautiful photo's here. I actually loved the colour one of the girl with the red lipstick.

Frederick this is brilliant. I've always been inspired by photos that look like a charcoal sketch or a smooshy Monet painting. Very inspiring.

not only is your content inspiring and I learn so much, but also your presence as a person in your video's is so kind and curious, open and heart filled! Love your work!

Very cool video. Definitely one to keep in the back of the mind. The end results really did remind me of 1960s modernist photography and '60s photojournalism.

Loved this. Thank you for sharing!

That photo at 2:32 instantly took me to a traveling journalist on the streets of Vietnam in the 60s. What an absolutely lovely shot! It's wild that I got that feel of it way before I noticed the "HANOI" tag or heard you mention Vietnam..

Some great photos throughout. I kept thinking of Wan Kar-wai films :)

I love the results and the overall video! Especially the music, the mood and in-depth explanations are fantastic!

As a video editor, I can say I've heard this music track 1,000 times lol (it is indeed one of the best out there)

Movement, blurriness and motion are part of life, something, that in modern times, we tend to forget. Beautiful photos

Frederik, you are a true artist! Always pushing the boundaries. Thank you for another brain teaser!

amazing video and great reflection in the end. Slow shutter speeds add so much character to a photo

4:19 lady has an X100 camera. Respect 🫡

So love of this kind of video! It is an enjoyment to watch it!

Just awesome Frederik. Thank you for this and all your other videos. I eagerly await each one you make. Your vision, ideas, and enthusiasm in the street are truly motivating and educational. Great work.

one of your best videos ever … great idea and inspiring explainations … well done!

I'm new in photography and you have inspired me to try new things, thanks you! Thank you for explaining your "technical" process and feedback. You're the only one that does it and is a blessing!

SUPER awesome photos man! Do more of that because it’s so much more expressive and candid. It’s like the old French masters. Love it.

It's requires a lot of practice to nail subjects you want to focus! I tried this technique and nailed only one in six or seven shots and all of the shots were made on film and perfected on two or four occasions in a single day photo shoot! All on Kodak 100asa daylight color film! You don't have to use too low shutter speed to get substantial amount of blur around the focused subject; only that you need some more light to use higher shutter-speed even 1/125th of a second could bring out a wonderful blur behind the subject! I made them shoot with a 50mm f/1.2 lens at around 8am in the morning with 1/125sec or 1/60sec shutter speed and quite successful in getting a few blurry shots! The larger brust with electronic shutter may give you as many shots as aplenty, you don't require, and you may end up with a clear picture instead of blur because the subject hasn't showed much movement in each frame with respect to the burst speed (maybe slower)! You tend to halt the subject in between shots while on burst giving the subject and the other objects stand almost still with the least possibility of motion blur you want! And the electronic shutter with high speed make the SD card full sooner in making fewer shots in comparison to slower burst rate prompting you to change the card! Wide angle lenses are advantageous to capture the subject while moving the camera horizontally like on a tripod because of the wider area of coverage crams in more objects to be blurred and gives you more space for your subject to go across the wide frame! Prime lenses like 16mm to about 35mm lenses give you 24mm to 52mm full frame coverage! When on a trolley, like your roller skates, or from a open hood vehicle could be used for a pronounced effect of blurry objects but the subject, moving at the same speed with the camera! Fast lenses are specially helpful in low light situations!

Thank you. I really love the look of these your fotos. I take alot panning shots like this as well, i just like the look. Regarding elektronic vs mechanical shutter: on my a6400 subjects are sometimes distorted when using electronic shutter, this is due to the way the sensor is read out. Another thing that can be helpful is to utilize trackingfocus to lock in on your "target" before the fact. Again, thanks for your great video(s) and images Clemens

The shot /frame at 08:06 is so beautiful! Really love this series! Well done! 👏👏

The photos are beautiful. They have an organic, film vibe.

I really enjoyed this video, your passion is clear and contagious! Though I can't use all of the information you provide as I shoot exclusively on a mobile phone, you do share a lot of general knowledge that is very appreciated. It's also great that you take us with you out onto the street, I think seeing the context and how you see the moment is incredibly valuable for understanding. Looking forward to more from you!

What a great video Frederick , many thanks , very inspiring ! I think I’m one of the few photographers who comments on your X feed too !

Love this Frederik, great ideas and thanks for always showing the shutter speeds on each photo.

Love this kind of pictures. Doing it a lot of myself

I’ve never seen Hue in such a vibe like these, really inspirating and worth of doing so. Hope to see more of your works. I really love its

these shots are absolutely awesome man, very inspiring

Thank you for taking the time to talk through your technique and learnings - so helpful! Great video.

Thanks for sharing! Really inspiring and awesome technique to try for myself soon!

The woman you asked to walk towards you with her hat on is stunning, and I loved the pictures you took of her. I really enjoyed this video. I'm going to try the slow shutter speed myself.

Lovely! Frederik always so confident!

Great video Frederik, by far the best one yet 🙂 Good job!!!!

This was a super inspiring video for me. I’ve been out trying to utilize the technique… it can be very challenging to fill the screen like you did. Thanks for sharing

This is awesome! I love these photos. This is what I am trying next. I can see this type of photo on my wall! Thanks heaps!

6:07 is my pick! Gorgeous!!

This video must be so eye-opening for many photographers. There are a lot of sneaky revelations here. The idea of limiting shake by using lager muscle groups, seeing the comparison of gopro vs cropped longer lens in the actual shot moment, the effect of grain over motion blur, etc. For someone who's used to just typical street techniques, this is all very new. Awesome job opening up people's worlds. Personally, I'm definitely on manual focus for this type shooting. Since motion blur is obliterating details anyway, I don't mind gaining depth of field to make the process of range-finding plausible in exchange for ditching the haphazard nature of autofocus in this context. You also gain a bit more ISO noise, which of course looks fantastic when it hazes out motion blur into a wash of crispy cream ha. Anyway. Awesome video. It's great to have these tricks in the arsenal for when you need to bring some interest to a setting and make your own mark 🤘

Beautiful shots and you made me excited to try out this technique ASAP!

For me, that's the #1! It's peaceful and stressful at the same time. Well done, Frederik. Cheers from Brazil. 😁

I love this style of photographs, I have taken some and I am very happy with them. I feel like they look a lot like painting.

Thanks . Another great video Frederik many thanks 🙏

My favourite video so far 🙌🏻🔥 Amazing work Frederik!

Good inspiration, Frederik! The lesson of the process being a bit boring is interesting. It's all about the end result. Thank you!

Same as your Thailand videos, these bring back so many memories. I visited Hue over 10 years ago and I loved the place. Great content.

Absolutly gorgeous, beautiful and astonishing pictures! Congratulations! 👏👏👏

recently I was at a rave, and my camera was ignoring my shutter settings and stopping down to 1/10 to 2s shutter speed, but the results were amazing. later at home I found the settings that did this, but I learned to be brave with slower shutterspeeds. the stage light worked as a flash (or several) fixing a person's face despite the long exposure (so maybe use flashes), another thing, I couldn't use autofocus, because it was to dark. Ricoh's snap focus is a godsend, (bascially quick access manual focus, but with distances). F4 is even enough, since the subject is rarely sharp anyway. and since you anticipate your subject, you can just set it to 2,5m and always bring yourself to that distance. definitely try manual focus!

I see a future photo 😊 zine/book called 1/10 coming soon !! Great ideas and beautiful photos especially the one girl with the hat!!

Totally inspiring - panning street portraits! Can't wait to try this. Thank you

Those photos are absolutley fabulous. Good technique to learn. Thanks for the vid.

Great work! Love your photo's and seeing the process behind them.

great video as always. the woman with the hat was amazing what a good sport

This was very helpful. I love this kind of photography. makes it really portrait like but also true too the environment.

Fantastic video and amazing tips. Thank you, Frederik!

Thank you so much for this video. I like the style you get!

Going to try this tomorrow, thanks!

I just discovered your channel. Wonderful. As far as trying to be discreet as a street photographer; So long as one is polite and not intrusive, as you are, there is nothing to worry about and since it's quite obvious you are a photographer don't hide it (white dude in an asian country with a 35mm pro camera). That's a good thing. I gave up on being discreet and just do my thing. I discourage folks from being sneaky in any way with their photography. Getting caught while being sneaky creates suspicion and friction. Truth of the world is people don't bite, they won't eat you, and as long as you are honest and upfront about who and what you do it's pretty easy. Always carry an instant access to who you are, be it a business card or a social media presence. As far as this technique, it's wonderful way to add movement and drama to an otherwise pretty pedestrian scene. I plan to introduce it into my work, especially when I have a few minutes during a gig to experiment. Thanks for posting!

Wonderful, your explanation is easy understanding! You have made street photography fun and interesting. ❤❤❤

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, feelings, and learnings about this exercise, it is a nice introduction to learn how to start taking pictures this way. The selected images were lovely can't wait to see more of them.

From Vietnam, and I am also a photographer, too. I love all the photos you took! They are really give the mood.

This technique is awesome! Thank you for sharing and I'll definitely try it as soon as I walk down the street this week.

Frederik, this is such a great video, thank you for this. I want to try this so bad right now 😌 And I don't find it absolutely not boring, in the opposite way even.

Love the photos

Beautiful photos 😍

love this style so much! just tried it again today and its sooo good

Such a great video - I love the concept and then seeing how you put it into practice, and reflect on everything. Amazing insights, and an instant-subscribe.

New subscriber. Love your commentary and thoughts and considerations

Obviously this is not new. It is called scanning or sweeping and it is being used more often by news photographers in the last few years since IBIS and auto focus has improved. The trick is finding a situation where the blur achieves some visual purpose in isolating the detail.

I do stand-up comedy, and when I go to the club further from my house (30 minute drive or so), I like to spend a little time before or after the mic doing some night street photography. Since this idea involves slow shutter speeds and slow shutter speeds lend well to low light since you can capture more light, I think I might try this out next time. Such a cool idea and some really neat photos came from the process. Subscribed and liked. :)

Great exercise! I've always found it daunting since I often shoot concerts but this video convinced me to give it a try

After showing the colored one, made me curious to see some other of these in color as well. AS always, great video, great art.

Thanks for this technique 👌 photos become instant classic

Awesome video! I love this kind of shooting, using motion blur to isolate your subject. From my experience: When using AF: the Fujicrons (the small WR f/2 lenses and the 16mm f/2.8) are faster focussing and better for this than the older and slow focussing f/1.4 lenses. Especially when low light is involved. Because we're following a subject with slow shutter speed, bokeh is way less important, at least that's my humble opinion, because there will be a lot of motion blur. I find that small apertures instead of using ND filters to combat brighter conditions, works better with AF. Plus with smaller apertures there's more in focus, which makes getting your subject in focus easier for the AF system and makes manual focussing easier too - if you're into that (like I am).

Hello Frederik. Such a great video. Loved the images you showed to us. I appreciate the way you explained your thinking and technique behind the pictures. Looking forward to more videos. Cheers John.

Thanks! I learned some ideas on the slow shutter. Will try those soon❤

Subscribed instantly as your creative and enjoy your photos ❤ cheers from Oz🇦🇺

I was trying to taking photographs with low shutter streets for a while now, but for the opposite effect, I want subject people to be motion blurred and normal sharp at the background and building area, to avoid unsatisfied expression from some of them because I do some street photography in my country (in se asia) and not a tourist, so a little bit tricky to avoid upsetting them. My current problem is I press shutter too hard, it made the whole camera jerking. Now I still practicing pressing shutter lighter with low shutter speed. wish I will master it soon. Thanks for the good video.👍

This video really grabbed me. Great to see something different . Very presented 👏🏼

Really cool photos! It was nice seeing your thought process and seeing you also figure it out as your day went along

so great and inspiring

Very nice work! I did slow shutterspeed street phtotograpy recently in Tokyo (but without the Drag-along effect) and liked the results.

Very good work. I love and i'll try. Thanks Frederik :)

Can’t wait to watch this one!!

Very informative video, and your photos are so good. I will come back to this video every time I go out to shoot

I loved all of this.

wow...great explanation at shutter speed and camera movement

Thanks!

I love this technique and the first time I tried it was by accident. It was on a super8 camera, so I couldn't see the results until it came and I was happy. I was in a cab, backseat, taking some single photos on a Super8. 90% came out bad, all out of focus or everything blurred, but 2 came out really good. In color, it takes you to Wong Kar Wai world and in b&w, David Lynch's Elephant Man. It has a dreamlike look and if you ever want to recreate one of your dreams, this would do it.

very cool, can't wait to try for these results

That looks Hoi An, Vietnam. I was there last March. Beautiful city! I really miss the coconut coffee LOL...

Great experience! Love it!

Great stuff!

Reminds me of a mild Olga. Fun style to play with for sure. I like shooting with a mellow extension tube on my blad. Totally different look. But same genre.

What a video Thanks the RU-vid recommandations You did and amazin job, photos are amazing

Thank you for this video. Your images are lovely. I have recently started practicing intentional camera movement (ICM). I have focused on abstract images and color photography. I’ve been thinking about doing ICM in B&W. I’ve also thought about doing ICM while doing street photography. Looks like you beat me to both. I started using a circular polarizer but that was inadequate. Using a neutral density filter, as you suggest, is the way to go. I am using a six stop ND filter. I like shooting between 1/8 and 1/4”. Finding the amount of blur you like requires a lot of experimenting. I am going to experiment using a flash and a longer shutter speed to freeze the subject and still get motion blur. OMG I might be turning into Bruce Gilden. He is obnoxious and flashes people at about six feet. That is, in my opinion, intrusive and blemishes the scene. Mask On Nurse Marty (Ret) 5500 images? WOW! I have a 2-5% keeper rate. In other words, be prepared for a lot of image you don’t like. I have learned a lot of ways to take images I don’t like. I still can’t create the image I image before pressing the shutter speed. Mask On Nurse Marty (Ret)

One of your best yet! You inspired me to try this today - man its hard! I nailed focus a couple of times and i do like a few of the shots i got but definitely needs more practice.

Great video,thank you