You Tube street photography videos are a seemingly endless re-hash of holding a camera above head height with one hand while striding along, randomly snapping the backs of people and talking as though it's some form of clever 'art'. Your video piece torpedoes that nonsense and puts pre-visualisation, anticipation, patience and composition at the heart of memorable and engaging street photography. It's 'intelligent' photography and your projects reflect coherent, top quality imaging. With succinct, no 'flab' commentary and defined tasks it's the best street guide out there. Top stuff.
There's different styles and techniques to street photography which can peacefully co-exist. Some people can find that they prefer the one-handed approach. The most important thing for me is to consider both and to try understand the appeal of both.
A lot of street photographers on RU-vid are just out there for social media content popularity, not real photography. Which is why all their crap looks the same, unfortunately
I've been a photographer for 50 years and street photography is my favorite. I've used a lot of these techniques along the way, instinctively, and it is wonderful to hear an explanation and a description of what goes into taking the photos. I would never be able to put it into words the way this gentleman has.
What a great masterclass, Nick! You really strip it down to very simple, basic elements which produce a narrative greater than the sum parts. You have a new convert.
Great tutorial. What struck me most about the bus photo was not only the matching colour phone, but the way you aligned the side of the blue roof perfectly with the edge of the white building. Good timing!
Thank you for a superb video. I especially like your 3 tasks at the end. I have my own particular approach to street photography, and welcome different approaches and interpretations.
A fantastic video. I leant so much! Such a change to watch a video made by a photographer who actually knows what he’s talking about and, shares his knowledge without being patronising. My many thanks Nick!
Thank you Nick for this lesson. I have been doing street photography for some years, then moved to the countryside and stopped. This demonstration made me want to go shoot again.
Excellent advice and tips to improve our street photography. Staying in one place to wait for the perfect moment is new for me and will definitely be tried next time I go out to take pictures. Great video Nick, this is really a masterclass in street photography.
Outstanding video, Nick! Great introduction to a set of principles that surely will train your eye and your brain to capture that "decisive moment" and frame that shot
I truly enjoyed this video and learned a lot. It's always interesting to see professionals take us along on shoots. I will try the "assignments." Good practice. Thank you so much.
Really enjoyed your video, some useful ideas really like the way you stay in one place and hold the camera up ready for the shot as i always feel awkward taking photos of people going to try this. Thank you
Very well done! I particularly liked the well thought and articulated what and why for photography and street photography at the intro. Thanks for sharing 🙏🍷
When I was studying photography in college, every class always mentioned, in passing, how the best documentary photographers pick a spot and wait, but then wouldn't ever mention it again, and you go through each class forgetting. It's nice to have almost 30 minutes of thorough encouragement to sit still and an example of waiting in one spot.
Thanks Nick for this excellent video. Very professional and full of great tips and interesting photos. I’m looking forward to more videos of this quality from you.
A great Video ! Not often that a fine street photographer actually takes you out to the street and shows just what he/she does and talks about just what they see and try to do. Very informative ! Thanks much.
What a great video. So many wonderful tips for an introduction into street photography. It's also so useful for photography in general. Well done. I want to get out there and put them into action. Thank you so much.
Was out shooting all day in these exact same spots today with my wife. Wish I had watched this video first though. Inspired to go back out tomorrow with these tips. Thank you :)
This has been one of the most interesting photography videos I've seen. Videos like this one are the reason RU-vid exists. This is what is should be about. Brilliant ideas getting spread. Thank you so much!!!!
To show a picture and explain it took three days or sixty tries is a better explanation of interesting street photography than all the hyper active nonsense I’ve seen on other videos. Thank you
For me, the most useful takeaway here was to pick a small area to work in. Im guilty of just walking aimlessly in any direction. Which can yield some nice results. But I think your suggestion is something I'm going to try next.
As a beginner who has watched many videos on this platform that was by far the most interesting street photography explanation and thought process I have seen EXCELLENT
Such a tough genre. The lady w/phone and green bus... nice. The construction worker within the geometry and colors... nice. You mentioned the secret sauce. Patience, time invested, and sometimes luck. Thank you for the input.
Sorry to be so late to the party! Put simply, this is the best introduction to street photography video on RU-vid. Don't know why it's taken me so long to come across it but I'll be following Nick Turpin closely from now on....not in a stalky way :) Excellent work Nick.
man those pictures are just crazy. your composition is so complex. one with the worker,colors and black lines on the wall (one matching on the ground as well) just amazing. 4 5 layers into the shoot. the "look" picture genius. best thing you realize is when you walk you are usually blind when you walk with your camera you open your eyes. when you click first time into connecting what you see dots concepts colors meaning into one shoot feels good. but this is another level!! i walked many hours in London myself last year..1 2 layers fine but 4 5 is next level up! haha
Very nice video explaining what your looking for as you go and also showing the end product of your work. Thank you very much. Very pleasant experience.
I have always struggled living in a town where you never think you can get the pictures you do in a big city. Watching this has set my mind running of where I can go to take pictures now. Best tutorial I have seen on street photography. Excellent.
You can take good photographers anywhere. The issue is when you look too much at other people’s works you get Tilted from your vision. That’s the bad part about social media and photography.
Thank you Nick, you made 30 minutes seem like 10 and at the end I was sad that it had ended . . . . .always a good sign, your teaching methods are as good as your street photography and I now can't wait to get into my local city (Exeter) to apply your tips.
Thank you Nick for this most interesting and informative video. I have been a photographer for a long time, but haven't ventured into street photography. With the wonderful guidelines and suggestions in this video I am ready to go out and try my hand at street photography.
This has to be the Most Informative & Entertaining Video on Street Photography that I have found on RU-vid.! I have searched and seen many other Videos on Street Photography, but Non that can Better this Video.! This Video is exactly what I have been looking for on RU-vid.! Other Videos are too Short and are more about the Photographer themselves and Advertising their Work.! More than Explaining to the Street Photography Viewer who is Wishing to Start or Improve on their Street Photography.! Please keep making more Videos like this on Street Photography.! I really enjoyed and appreciated your Video.! As I am sure many other potential and current Street Photographer's will as well.! There is so much more to Street Photography than meets the eye.! And this Video will help enormously.! Take Care and Stay Safe.! 😁📸
Fantastic video. I’m just starting to try and do more architectural and street photography and am so excited to get out now. I had a go in London last week (live near Birmingham) but I have a large dslr and would like a smaller, less conspicuous and lighter camera so that’s my current dilemma!! Have a couple of used ones saved but incapable of making a decision 😂 thanks again for the inspiration and informative video
Great video, well made, well explained, with good pictures you made on the street in front of my eyes, what a great demonstration of what street photography is in a nutshell! If I had to recommend only one RU-vid video to learn about street photography it would be this one! I am not new to it but taking it more seriously nowadays as I find there is so much for me to learn and grow. Cheers from Montreal!
“What a camera does best which is to freeze a moment of reality to hold and inspect for days, weeks, years and decades to come” “What is street photography? Simply, it’s candid photography in a public realm. It’s un-stage and it’s un-manipulated. It’s observational photography.” Great! A tutorial video that I’ll gonna be watching over and over again! This is gold! Thank you so much for this. Been looking for more learning stuffs for me to absorb. I’m using smartphone as my camera.
Straight forward with great pieces of advice: plan, plan plan - location, shot and composition. Naturally know the gear you are using - don't obsess over it! Wonderful listening.
The seemingly simple idea of staking out a great location and waiting for what we all have come to call the decisive moment - it's brilliant and it works. I've been doing it for years instinctively, in part because it usually takes me a while to warm up to a spot and find its unique signature or ideal angles, but now I'm doing it consciously with the intent to frame and wait for pedestrian traffic, interesting juxtapositions, etc. Only downside here is that people do see you and they're aware someone might be shooting the space, often leading to hands in front of faces or silly walks out of my perceived frame. Using tilt screen on a7c does help, but it's always a balance between infringing on people's space and striving for artistic achievement.
Really helpful and inspiring; thankyou for making this masterclass. I already have a D3300 and a couple of other cameras, but I'm inspired to try street photography with a small but good quality camera. I know just the camera for the job ;) and I'll be off, after lockdown #2 ends, of course.
