The Ultimate Guide to Street Photography. In this extensive article, I will help you understand more about street photography, how to do it, and all the things you need to think about including equipment, ethics, and even legalities.
This is the ultimate guide to street photography to help get you started in this genre of photography. What is street photography? Ethics and overcoming your fear.The law and street photography.A few of the most important tips to get you started.Equipment.Camera settings.Composition and light.Advanced tips.Content and concepts of street photography.Editing.Master street photographer research. Street photography is an inherently clunky term, and because of this, there are many street photographers that dislike it. They consider themselves photographers, plain and simple. The first image that typically comes to mind for the term street photography, is an image of a stranger just walking down the street in a city like New York, London, or Tokyo. But these are decisions that can’t be taught. Robert Frank’s “The Americans”: Timeless Lessons Street Photographers Can Learn. “The Americans” by Robert Frank is one of the most influential photo books published of all-time.
It has inspired countless numbers of photographers across all genres, especially appealing to documentary and street photographers. I know the book has had a profound impact on my photography and how I approach projects. While I am not an expert on Robert Frank or “The Americans”, I will share what I personally have learned from his work. For your reference, I used Steidl’s “Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans” as a primary resource for this article. The article is incredibly long, and I encourage you to read it not all in one sitting, but in different phases.
10 Most Common Mistakes Made by New Photographers. Whenever I teach, I get a lot of requests to review images.
Over time, I’ve started to notice that a majority of the mistakes I see come from the same small group of errors that are repeated constantly, particularly by less experienced photographers. Eric Kim – Blog. Home. Photography by David Ward. Leading Landscape Photographer and Tutor. Fine Art Travel & Architecture Photography. Photoshop Lightroom Tutorial 49: Nik Sharpener Pro. (11-Minute Preview) This content is for members only.
Ansel Adams is often quoted as saying “there is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.” Sadly, post-capture sharpening tools and techniques have become the proverbial “fuzzy subject” for a lot of photographers. There are so many misconceptions about sharpening in digital photography. The first thing that many people do not understand is that post-capture sharpening is not the same as focusing.
The goal with post-capture sharpening is to fool the viewer’s eye. Today’s video tutorial on working with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop CC, and Nik Sharpener Pro picks up where the previous series of tutorials on noise reduction using Nik Dfine ended. Great Photographers » HDRshooter. Great photographers – blogs and pages There are so many great photographers out there and I’m proud that I can call many of them my friends.
If you like my photos, I’m sure that you will also like theirs. A lot of them also include photography guides and tutorials on their pages so you can also learn a lot from them. I really suggest becoming their fan on Facebook, so you can enjoy their photos regularly. All rights to photos shown here are owned by the respective photographers and are shared here either by CC license or with a permission from the photographers themselves.Btw. the order is random :) Magnum Photos Photographer Portfolio. Bruce Gilden. Magnum Photos Photographer Portfolio. Koudelka Josef Koudelka Datar - en Lorraine, dans le Nord et à Paris Periplanissis - Following Ulysses' Gaze Prague, 1968 Mission Photographique Transmanche Photo Poche.
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Lightroom Training Videos « Julieanne Kost's Blog. If you’re not sure which Lightroom desktop application is right for you (Lightroom Classic or Lightroom CC), these videos might help: The All-New Lightroom CC: An Overview, and The All-New Lightroom CC or Lightroom Classic – Which Workflow is Best for You?
If you’re not sure if Lightroom Classic or Bridge is the right application for your workflow, this video might help: Lightroom Classic or Bridge – Which is the Right Application to Manage your Workflow? The videos below all refer to Lightroom Classic. OVERVIEW & IMPORTING PHOTOSLightroom Classic – An Overview of the Lightroom Interface. Getting the White Balance Right for Neutral Colors. Correct white balance Too blue - shot with flash while white balance was set to indoor lighting.
Too orange - shot with tungsten lighting while white balance was set to daylight. To understand why you might need to adjust the white balance in your camera, you first need to understand color temperature. Adjusting the white balance basically means making sure that a part of the picture that is supposed to be a neutral color does actually contain equal amounts of red, green and blue. We call it white balance but it works equally well with light gray parts of the scene, however generally speaking the lighter the better.
On the right you can see the effect of right and wrong white balance in a composition with delicate colors. On most modern cameras we have an AWB (automatic white balance) setting, various fixed color temperature settings such as 'daylight', 'tungsten' and 'flash' and, on the better cameras, and a custom setting. Getting it Right in the Camera. Best camera settings for hand-held landscapes. Setting up your camera before you start shooting can save you time, effort and maybe even using the wrong camera settings.
In the first of a new series, we’ll be running through our essential guide to setting up your camera for 10 of the most common photographic subjects and situations. Words and images by Chris Rutter With all of the camera settings available on your camera, thinking about every one every time you shoot isn’t the best approach to getting great images. If only there were a shortcut to setting up your DSLR for any subject. The Ansel Adams Gallery. Fay Godwin Homepage. Charlie Waite Landscape Photographer And Tutor. David Noton Photography. PhotoVogue.