How to shoot better in street photography

If you want to do one thing well, you must practice. This is a simple matter, which is the case that needs to be operated.

We have been practicing since childhood, from practicing the use of chopsticks, to the writing of the boxes in the practice, we kept doing this until these behaviors become muscle memory that we cannot erase in the depths of our memory. I fainted with us, let us amnesia, and we must not forget to eat and write with chopsticks.

The same is true for taking pictures. An experienced street photographer will not consider shooting settings before pressing the shutter, because the street screen is fleeting. They need to make a judgment at the fastest speed, take out the camera and press the shutter to press the shutter to press the shutter. In order to capture that wonderful picture. This instantaneous time comes from the accumulation of countless shutters, but in addition to conventional shooting exercises, we can have a more fine way to practice.

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Deliberate exercises allow our targeted exercises to have very specific skills, which also include reflection behavior and restraint behavior of scenes. It is as if in sports, we need to train very specific actions. As long as you run the ball, how to run the ball, you should pay attention to what you should pay attention to when you take the ball. If you do it too much, you do n’t need to remind others again. From the moment we get the ball, we know what to do without what to do.

For photography, especially for street photography, it is difficult for us to decompose a complete technique into many simple sub -skills like music sports to study the practice alone. , Press the shutter, this is a movement in one go. However, we can help us make it easier for us to adapt to the environment by creating some constraints. The easiest of which is to use fixed -focus lenses. It is also one of the reasons why street photographers like to focus. Once they adapt to a viewing perspective of a focal length, then even if they do not look at the viewing frame, as long as the camera raises it, they can always have a prediction in their hearts and know that they can shoot What kind of picture is out.

Street photographers can learn how to compose through their horizons by restricting their vision, which is the zoom that we say as the saying goes. If we take a lot, we will naturally better understand the effect of the specific focal length in our hands and get good ones. Space consciousness.

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Of course, the fixed focus here is best to choose a wide -angle lens of 28mm or 35mm. The wide field of vision is easier to correction. It is difficult to imagine that you do n’t look at the viewfinder with a lens of more than 50mm. The picture must be God. Anyway, I often do n’t know where to shoot with medium and long focus blind shooting. Another advantage of the wide -angle is a wider depth of field, unlike the mid -telephoto lens to blur the background. In this way, when using a wide -angle lens, even if you do n’t look at the viewfinder, you can easily judge where the focus range is. Will the subject we want to shoot?

Of course, if you do n’t have a fixed focus lens, you can also do this exercise with the zoom lens in your hand, but you need to limit the focal length. As long as you do n’t rotate the zoom ring, it is your fixed focus lens. During the shooting process, you can practice yourself blindly shooting. Intuition and the ability of framing.

By using a fixed focus lens, we can restrict the field of view. Another way to limit shooting is to use manual mode. Although the manual mode is not a necessary mode for street photography, more street photographers will use shutter to take priority to shoot. This can be pulled up by the later period, and it will not take fuzzy pictures because of insufficient shutter. However, manual exercises can give us a deeper understanding of the scene light, know what settings should be selected under what scenarios, and do not often expose the picture or expose the screen because of the adjustment settings.

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In addition to focusing and restrictions on exposure, in order to practice consciously, we can perform third constraints: constraints on themes.

The simple method is to "imitate the master". We can find a street photographer you like to see what kind of content they often shoot to choose the same or similar theme as them, such as Elliot Erwitt dogs, martin Parr's ice cream, Vivian Maier's selfie, Saul Leiter's abstract colors and composition, geometry in SiegFried Hansen pictures, and so on.

Once you find your favorite themes, when we see these pictures you want to shoot, you may also consider how can they handle these pictures if they are those masters.

Of course, imitation is not the purpose. The purpose is to have a deeper understanding of the visual elements and composition methods in the screen through the analysis of the theme.

Photo by Inja Pavlić on Unsplash street photography is a key word is casual. At any time, whether we deliberately find content to shoot, or just walk outside in a leisurely afternoon, or hurry to get off work, as long as we hold the road, we are holding. Camera, we can all look for to take pictures to take pictures, without special equipment, even our mobile phone.Another keyword of street photography is to focus on. We should keep our camera in the state of pressing the shutter at all times so that we will not take the camera to adjust the settings when you see the picture. Wait until you are readyWhen I press the shutter, I found that the picture was gone.

Restricted practice is to cultivate our ability to focus, whether it is the discovery of the picture, the setting of the camera, or the ability to capture the screen.Taking photos is also a skill. The more you practice, the better we will take.

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