The 5 Street Photography Tips No One Talks About

These 5 street photography tips have helped to transform my street photography approach, style and images over the last 2 years.

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⏰ Timestamps
0:00 - 1. Assignments
0:58 - 2. Instruction Manuals
4:02 - 3. Opposites
5:52 - 4. Looping
7:35 - 5. Shooting vs Editing

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[markturner]

I shoot a lot in Manchester, and I admit I tend to stick to the same areas, I need to expand more

[DavidMBanes]

Great video. This is the only way I can get started on a photo walk some days, think up a mini project. One day it was all the doors in a small village! Didn't see the links for the books but got them from Amazon, thanks for that, holiday reading for me.

[cliffko]

Just wanted to let you know I bought both books and signed up for SkillShare. Great video.

[Ironcladstudio]

1:18 I typically use the manual as a guide to purchasing a new camera. To look at how it works and features. Especially since now you will buy the camera online without ever looking at it in person.

[colingerard]

Hi George.

Good talking points again and a big thumbs for book recommendations. It was interesting to hear, Andre D. Wagner, when he did 'Walkie Talkie' saying how much he admired Chris Killip. I am having some amusing conversations with photographers at the moment about how people perceive us based on our appearance when we are out taking pictures. Enjoy the rest of your week.

[CampervanTales]

Thanks George. Just sent links to the two books to my hubby. He keeps asking what I want for Christmas

[CharlesMcKeever]

I love these hard earned insights from shooting in the field. 🙏

[rofferdal]

I read almost all instruction manuals of new products. I always discover functionality that would either cause problems later or not make me utilise the product properly.

[AnotherOtherMan-alive]

Also, don't forget to start and stop your paths at different times as you'll find that there will be different hot-spots at different points in time, and on occasion deviate to a side street to change the perspective of what you're shooting.

And sometimes, go on that walk with no camera, and just look at the traffic flow. You'll be able to naturally spot the hot-spots with no issue.

[kerc]

Valerie Jardin has a great book titled "Street Photography Assignments". It's great for when im in a creative rut, gives purpose to my putings. Highly recommend it.

[britonabrompton]

Spooky! I bought those 2 books last week

[dubidubno]

The artwork you showed with the construction workers having their brake sitting on a steel beam high up in the air, isn't one photographl. It's an optical conposite of two images.

[rinarias]

Do you need authorization from people to be photographed?

[luzr]

Good vid, cheers. The 'Left Brain - Right Brain' thing that was popularised in pop-Psych in the 1970s, however, has no scientific support in relation to creativity and 'rationality'. Plenty of contemporary neuro-science research that debunks, or at least completely fails to prove, brain-laterality in those areas of 'personality'. Not that it particularly matters, but i can imagine people somehow straining to activate one side of the brain or the other - or shooting with their right eye because it's 'the creative' one!

[bobcunningham]

The most recent camera I purchased as an instruction manual of well over 400 pages, so I'm afraid I have not read it all. Very complex machines these days.

[nagolas]

7:46 "The right side of your brain is responsible for blablabla"
Are you a doctor in neuroscience or a psychologist?
Surely it is more prudent and relevant to explain photographic concepts with photographic concepts that you master very well, rather than beliefs based on nothing.
Thanks for this video.