In Morocco now these last 7 weeks.. got over 5600 street shots.. candid, using a 7.5mm fish eye on Olympus with silent shutter.. nobody ever knew..👌.. got my best shots ever here..♥️
Biggest lesson for me is consistency which means going out in bad weather. Previously I had been a fair weather photographer, but going out in all weather showed me all the opportunities I had previously missed. Additionally being more critical of what I share. I also evaluated others photos they shared and looked at what I liked or didn't like about it and then decided if I had shot the same whether I would share or not. All this was in my mind - no unsolicited criticism publically given. I also started watching more youtube on Street Photography and looking at photography books. It's been 18 months since I started and I feel I've improved dramatically, but at the same time still have a long way to go. This is a good video, thanks for sharing. Looking forward to more in 2024.
Fantastic mate, happy to hear that. I think those are all brilliant ways to improve at street photography quickly, so I’m happy to hear it’s working well for you! Happy shooting in 2024 📸
just binging to your videos today when I found your channel. Still deciding for the best budget camera and looking forward to take photos like yours. More power to your channel.
Glad you like them, personally I find that style really boring and easy now, not really interested in ‘fine art’ street photography anymore, way more interested in documentary style :)
@@timjamiesonphotos We all grow and move on. I have always photographed nature and where I live is pretty rural so it’s easy to do,but I’m bored with that now- hence watching videos like yours that have sparked my interest! Thankyou 🙂
It's been great seeing your photography journey this year, Tim. I have loved all your images and the how your "style" has changed. Your thoughts, insights and tips have been invaluable and I am looking forward to seeing more great content on your channel in 2024 Thanks for sharing your work.
Can not believe that I missed this excellent episode of 2023 Self-Review until today. Thank you so much for the honest sharing of the change and breakthrough with your own photography in 2023. Similar to you, I am also going through this challenging stage of "Stagnation (your word)" with my own street photography but in the reversed perspective. I used to enjoy shooting with the 28mm and 50mm and feeling quite comfortable to "get close" shooting on the busy streets of Beijing (as well as the other popular cities in Asia) for the past 3 years until moved to a small town in Northern Florida last summer. It is huge challenge for me to continue the same way I shoot on streets as there is an intensive sentiment of being offended while taking photos of people in the public without obtaining their permissions first. I guess the COVID has largely changed how people interact with each in general sadly. Being a huge believer of Capturing Candid Moments is the most essential key of Street Photography, I have no desire to take those "arranged stranger portraits on streets" although some photographers have done the superb jobs in that style. Having experienced this challenge, I decided to follow my all-time favorite Saul Leiter and encouraged myself to learn to observe this new environment through the focal lens of 90mm. The new perspective of much tighter and more compressed has not only brought me back with the enjoyment of out shooting on streets but also motivated me to convey more 'street mystiques" through the combinations of details, colors, shapes and light & shadows etc. I'd like to borrow your quote from this episode to end my comment and thank you again -"You can really photograph what's in front of you. So make the best of what you have" 👍👍 I will deeply appreciate if can check out my Instagram @AZYANGS and share your valuable thoughts (but only if you have the time). Happy Lantern Festival 2024🏮🏮
Thanks for your lovely comment! I’m really happy to hear that you’ve started to explore a different way of shooting too. Experimentation is key to growth as a street photographer in my opinion - happy shooting! 📸
Thanks for sharing this video of your thoughts on your growth this year. I've really enjoyed your photos and have gotten lots if information and inspiration from your channel. Here's to an awesome 2024!
I actually prefer your latest work way more. I really appreciate such photos kind of brings some sort feeling. I am definitely going to try to introduce the things you have learned in my photography! Getting closer. Events are indeed a great opportunity.
When I first started to do street photography I was using Olympus m43 with a mid-range zoom and a 40mm prime. I then got a Ricoh GR iii which is 28mm (equiv) fixed lens and it 'opened my eyes' to what was around me and, like you, I needed to get in closer and be a bit bolder. I did a '100 Strangers' project, stopping random people in the street and asking to take their photo, and it helped me with boldness. I now enjoy getting in closer and capturing more photos of the moment. Look forward to more of your videos in 2024. 🙂
Cheers chap for the vid, I have gone the opposite way and really enjoy 50mm on APSC, I like to pick out individuals in busy area environments as opposed to having too much going on, also I like the distance it affords me and if I do need to 'zoom' out I'm walking backwards further away and less imposing on people. Possibly a confidence thing but I'm also mindful of confrontation especially as I prefer night time stuff when there can be more opportunity for a knobhead or two floating about.
Great to see your review of the year and how your style has developed. Due to watching your channel I am now including more abstract, reflections and people framing in my own street work so thank you for the inspiration. 😊. Looking forward to seeing more of your content in 2024. Happy New Year and keep snapping!!!!!
Kudos for self assessment type of year end post, Tim, as opposed to other channel “best of pics boast”. Shows maturity and candor - no kidding. Dating images, a plus. When were you in Morocco? My learn by doing lesson this year was more interacting w/subjects like artisans - goes a long way to get relaxed and (yes) even quick candids. Valid points about shooting w/intent and prioritizing what is meaningful to you. Our priorities can morph, however - sometimes a moving target, if that makes sense. Events can be super productive, yet challenging - look forward to your posts next year. Not an event, but still a worthy challenge, IMO (heard about it recently): walk down any street of your choice - end to end if possible - photograph what you can. Ever try it? Happy New Year, Tim! Cheers!
Thank you, Paul! I really appreciate the kind words and your support of the channel this year. To be fair my style might completely change again be the end of 2024, I’m a bit like that! I’m never satisfied!! And yeah great idea, I actually had a plan to make a video about just shooting on one street for a day, so maybe I’ll revisit that next year :)
Not sure if you’ve ever read Jay Maisel’s book on street photography. Light, Color, and Gesture. I think you’d really like it. There is a documentary out there too. Watched it a few years ago and it was a real eye opener.
Man so Tru focal lengths make see the world more the 35mm is the ever contemporary one I love it... awesome journey of your body keep the current style I love it
Thank ypu for this nice recap, which has a lot in parallel with my photographic year: Although taking pictures since more than 45 years it was to motivate myself as a professional desk sitter to simply take more walks when I picked up my slightly aged X-Pro2 with a nifty fifty (i. e. 35 mm in that case) and discovered street photography for me personally and your YT channel, which quickly had become one of my favourites.. At the end of this year my preferred focal length after having tried 40 and 35mm now has come down to 28 mm (fullframe equivalent). This gives me the visual context you mentioned as well in a lot of situations where it was missing before, and now using the 40 MP sensor of an X-T5 I don't mind cropping if there was too much in the frame. For the next year I wish you best luck, best light and strong health, and I am happily looking forward for more of your most inspiring videos documenting your creative journey as well as for my personal development in street photography. So, take care and shoot on!
Thank you for the lovely comment. I really appreciate that. Great to hear you’ve experimented with focal lengths this year too. I’d love to pick up the x-t5 but waiting to see if they release a new xpro or x100 camera in 2024!
Yep, same for me, because the X-T5 still is more the "vacataion type" of camera body to me, and I even tested a Leica Q3 two days ago for an afternoon to find out I will never fall in love with it (despite the 6 grands of cost), because I seem to have got too long fingers for it, and its d-pad is somehow quirky to handle in combination with the EVF for a left-eyed photographer like me,. Although the quality of pictures it produces is superb at least, personally I'm missing the fun of using it. Hence a new X-Pro might be my "next big thing", but acc. to the rumors we will have to wait until the end of february for more on this topic.
Great summary of your year Tim, which I have been following. I have learnt a lot from this. It's so good to see the way the way you are developing. I have also thought about buying this lens to 'get closer' as you say, but I'm just getting used to the Fujinon 35mm 1.4. Looking forward to seeing your photography in 2024.
Thanks for this video, I feel the same about my "approach" to photography...my question is: How do you get closer to people with a camera??? In my experience - in this day and age - taking a photo of people comes with suspicion and occasionally confrontation. I never even bother raising my camera if anyone under 18 is nearby, let alone kids. How do you take photos without - for lack of better word, "suspicion"??
Thank you for the video! I currently have a Sony A1, but looking to do street photography after watching your street videos over the last week or so. I am looking at getting a smaller cheaper camera for this purpose and leave my Sony at home (due to weight and the risk of being a target when out at night). I am looking for a smaller camera around the £400 mark. I have been looking at Olympus, especially the OMD EM5 mk 2. It's fairly cheap and the lens choice is also very good and economical. Due to its age, it is only a 16mp camera, but would you consider this an ok camera for general street photography? Keep up the good work :)
Thanks mate! I don’t know much about Olympus but I would say megapixels is the least thing to think about for street photography, a 16mp camera is more than enough to make great photos for online and for making small prints for a zine or to frame. The best camera is the one you feel most comfortable with, you could always buy one, try it for a day and if no good send it back. I’m not great with gear though so I’m not the best to listen to on that front haha
Street photography is hard. As an introvert, I didn't think I could do it. Turns out I can, I even enjoy it. Am I good at it? I've only been doing street for eight months...
Hello,can you tell me whether you just do this as a hobby or whether you generally sell your street photos? Can i buy some images from you? Greeting M.F.
Come and take pictures in Korea to upgrade your photography. Even Alex Webb took so-so pictures when he came to Korea. A country where there are people who are not favorable of being taken picture with no permission, too many distracting electric wires above and between buildings, parked cars that spoil photo frame. Most of all, people all have cameras or are always ready to take pictures of their own by smartphone.
🔴 Thanks for supporting my channel this year! If you enjoy this video please hit the like button to help it spread to more people to see! 🎉
In Morocco now these last 7 weeks.. got over 5600 street shots.. candid, using a 7.5mm fish eye on Olympus with silent shutter.. nobody ever knew..👌.. got my best shots ever here..♥️
It’s a great country
Biggest lesson for me is consistency which means going out in bad weather. Previously I had been a fair weather photographer, but going out in all weather showed me all the opportunities I had previously missed.
Additionally being more critical of what I share. I also evaluated others photos they shared and looked at what I liked or didn't like about it and then decided if I had shot the same whether I would share or not. All this was in my mind - no unsolicited criticism publically given.
I also started watching more youtube on Street Photography and looking at photography books.
It's been 18 months since I started and I feel I've improved dramatically, but at the same time still have a long way to go.
This is a good video, thanks for sharing. Looking forward to more in 2024.
Fantastic mate, happy to hear that. I think those are all brilliant ways to improve at street photography quickly, so I’m happy to hear it’s working well for you! Happy shooting in 2024 📸
Hi, do u have some books rec?
just binging to your videos today when I found your channel. Still deciding for the best budget camera and looking forward to take photos like yours. More power to your channel.
Ah thank you so much! That’s very kind of you to say 🙏🏻
Brilliant video Tim 👏
Thanks mate! Happy new year 🥳
Love those early framing/abstraction images,they were excellent 👌
Glad you like them, personally I find that style really boring and easy now, not really interested in ‘fine art’ street photography anymore, way more interested in documentary style :)
@@timjamiesonphotos We all grow and move on. I have always photographed nature and where I live is pretty rural so it’s easy to do,but I’m bored with that now- hence watching videos like yours that have sparked my interest! Thankyou 🙂
It's been great seeing your photography journey this year, Tim. I have loved all your images and the how your "style" has changed.
Your thoughts, insights and tips have been invaluable and I am looking forward to seeing more great content on your channel in 2024
Thanks for sharing your work.
Thanks so much, Ash! I really appreciate that mate 🙏🏻
Can not believe that I missed this excellent episode of 2023 Self-Review until today. Thank you so much for the honest sharing of the change and breakthrough with your own photography in 2023. Similar to you, I am also going through this challenging stage of "Stagnation (your word)" with my own street photography but in the reversed perspective. I used to enjoy shooting with the 28mm and 50mm and feeling quite comfortable to "get close" shooting on the busy streets of Beijing (as well as the other popular cities in Asia) for the past 3 years until moved to a small town in Northern Florida last summer. It is huge challenge for me to continue the same way I shoot on streets as there is an intensive sentiment of being offended while taking photos of people in the public without obtaining their permissions first. I guess the COVID has largely changed how people interact with each in general sadly. Being a huge believer of Capturing Candid Moments is the most essential key of Street Photography, I have no desire to take those "arranged stranger portraits on streets" although some photographers have done the superb jobs in that style. Having experienced this challenge, I decided to follow my all-time favorite Saul Leiter and encouraged myself to learn to observe this new environment through the focal lens of 90mm. The new perspective of much tighter and more compressed has not only brought me back with the enjoyment of out shooting on streets but also motivated me to convey more 'street mystiques" through the combinations of details, colors, shapes and light & shadows etc. I'd like to borrow your quote from this episode to end my comment and thank you again -"You can really photograph what's in front of you. So make the best of what you have" 👍👍 I will deeply appreciate if can check out my Instagram @AZYANGS and share your valuable thoughts (but only if you have the time). Happy Lantern Festival 2024🏮🏮
Thanks for your lovely comment! I’m really happy to hear that you’ve started to explore a different way of shooting too. Experimentation is key to growth as a street photographer in my opinion - happy shooting! 📸
Great pics, Tim. I hope 2024 provides you with many more 👍
Thanks, Mike! Much appreciated 🙏🏻
Thanks for sharing this video of your thoughts on your growth this year. I've really enjoyed your photos and have gotten lots if information and inspiration from your channel. Here's to an awesome 2024!
Thank you, Michael! I really appreciate that. Hope you have a fantastic year of photography ahead 🙏🏻
Great 2023! And cheers to 2024 and all good things for you!
Thanks Mum! Hopefully get some nice photos in ‘24! 📸🙏🏻
The woman doing her makeup and looking back at you through her mirror was the money shot.
Thank you!
It has been super inspiring to see you change your style up this year. Thanks for creating, all the best for 2024 sir 📷✨
Thanks so much mate! Same to you 🎉👌🏻
I actually prefer your latest work way more. I really appreciate such photos kind of brings some sort feeling. I am definitely going to try to introduce the things you have learned in my photography! Getting closer. Events are indeed a great opportunity.
Thank you! That really means a lot 🙏🏻
Fab vid, Tim! Really amazing looking back over your 2023 snaps, and looking at the innovations you have made!
Thank you Courts! As always massively appreciate your support :)
When I first started to do street photography I was using Olympus m43 with a mid-range zoom and a 40mm prime.
I then got a Ricoh GR iii which is 28mm (equiv) fixed lens and it 'opened my eyes' to what was around me and, like you, I needed to get in closer and be a bit bolder.
I did a '100 Strangers' project, stopping random people in the street and asking to take their photo, and it helped me with boldness. I now enjoy getting in closer and capturing more photos of the moment. Look forward to more of your videos in 2024. 🙂
Fantastic! That’s great to hear. Yeah it’s amazing how a focal length change can open your eyes to a world of different opportunities :)
Cheers chap for the vid, I have gone the opposite way and really enjoy 50mm on APSC, I like to pick out individuals in busy area environments as opposed to having too much going on, also I like the distance it affords me and if I do need to 'zoom' out I'm walking backwards further away and less imposing on people. Possibly a confidence thing but I'm also mindful of confrontation especially as I prefer night time stuff when there can be more opportunity for a knobhead or two floating about.
Thanks! And yeah definitely - I usually shoot much longer at night too :)
Great to see your review of the year and how your style has developed. Due to watching your channel I am now including more abstract, reflections and people framing in my own street work so thank you for the inspiration. 😊. Looking forward to seeing more of your content in 2024. Happy New Year and keep snapping!!!!!
Thanks a lot mate! Happy to hear you’ve been experimenting! Here’s to a load more photographic opportunities in 2024 :)
Great video. Love this format, thanks. 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it ☺️
Kudos for self assessment type of year end post, Tim, as opposed to other channel “best of pics boast”. Shows maturity and candor - no kidding. Dating images, a plus. When were you in Morocco?
My learn by doing lesson this year was more interacting w/subjects like artisans - goes a long way to get relaxed and (yes) even quick candids.
Valid points about shooting w/intent and prioritizing what is meaningful to you. Our priorities can morph, however - sometimes a moving target, if that makes sense.
Events can be super productive, yet challenging - look forward to your posts next year.
Not an event, but still a worthy challenge, IMO (heard about it recently): walk down any street of your choice - end to end if possible - photograph what you can. Ever try it?
Happy New Year, Tim! Cheers!
Thank you, Paul! I really appreciate the kind words and your support of the channel this year. To be fair my style might completely change again be the end of 2024, I’m a bit like that! I’m never satisfied!!
And yeah great idea, I actually had a plan to make a video about just shooting on one street for a day, so maybe I’ll revisit that next year :)
Love your vlogs, looking forward to 2024
Thank you!
Not sure if you’ve ever read Jay Maisel’s book on street photography. Light, Color, and Gesture. I think you’d really like it. There is a documentary out there too. Watched it a few years ago and it was a real eye opener.
Yeah he’s one of my favourites! Quite the interesting man
Nice video, Tim. Enjoy your approach in the new lens.
Thanks a lot, David!
Man so Tru focal lengths make see the world more the 35mm is the ever contemporary one I love it... awesome journey of your body keep the current style I love it
Thank you bro! That really means a lot 🙏🏻
Thank ypu for this nice recap, which has a lot in parallel with my photographic year: Although taking pictures since more than 45 years it was to motivate myself as a professional desk sitter to simply take more walks when I picked up my slightly aged X-Pro2 with a nifty fifty (i. e. 35 mm in that case) and discovered street photography for me personally and your YT channel, which quickly had become one of my favourites.. At the end of this year my preferred focal length after having tried 40 and 35mm now has come down to 28 mm (fullframe equivalent). This gives me the visual context you mentioned as well in a lot of situations where it was missing before, and now using the 40 MP sensor of an X-T5 I don't mind cropping if there was too much in the frame. For the next year I wish you best luck, best light and strong health, and I am happily looking forward for more of your most inspiring videos documenting your creative journey as well as for my personal development in street photography. So, take care and shoot on!
Thank you for the lovely comment. I really appreciate that. Great to hear you’ve experimented with focal lengths this year too. I’d love to pick up the x-t5 but waiting to see if they release a new xpro or x100 camera in 2024!
Yep, same for me, because the X-T5 still is more the "vacataion type" of camera body to me, and I even tested a Leica Q3 two days ago for an afternoon to find out I will never fall in love with it (despite the 6 grands of cost), because I seem to have got too long fingers for it, and its d-pad is somehow quirky to handle in combination with the EVF for a left-eyed photographer like me,. Although the quality of pictures it produces is superb at least, personally I'm missing the fun of using it. Hence a new X-Pro might be my "next big thing", but acc. to the rumors we will have to wait until the end of february for more on this topic.
Great summary of your year Tim, which I have been following. I have learnt a lot from this. It's so good to see the way the way you are developing. I have also thought about buying this lens to 'get closer' as you say, but I'm just getting used to the Fujinon 35mm 1.4. Looking forward to seeing your photography in 2024.
Thanks a lot! Yeah I’m a big advocate for one camera one lens, so always best to spend many months that way to really get the most out of it 🙏🏻
Thanks for this video, I feel the same about my "approach" to photography...my question is: How do you get closer to people with a camera??? In my experience - in this day and age - taking a photo of people comes with suspicion and occasionally confrontation. I never even bother raising my camera if anyone under 18 is nearby, let alone kids. How do you take photos without - for lack of better word, "suspicion"??
Will do a video about that soon!
Thank you for the video! I currently have a Sony A1, but looking to do street photography after watching your street videos over the last week or so.
I am looking at getting a smaller cheaper camera for this purpose and leave my Sony at home (due to weight and the risk of being a target when out at night). I am looking for a smaller camera around the £400 mark.
I have been looking at Olympus, especially the OMD EM5 mk 2. It's fairly cheap and the lens choice is also very good and economical.
Due to its age, it is only a 16mp camera, but would you consider this an ok camera for general street photography?
Keep up the good work :)
Thanks mate! I don’t know much about Olympus but I would say megapixels is the least thing to think about for street photography, a 16mp camera is more than enough to make great photos for online and for making small prints for a zine or to frame. The best camera is the one you feel most comfortable with, you could always buy one, try it for a day and if no good send it back. I’m not great with gear though so I’m not the best to listen to on that front haha
@@timjamiesonphotos Thanks for getting back to me. Happy New Year to you!
Street photography is hard. As an introvert, I didn't think I could do it. Turns out I can, I even enjoy it. Am I good at it? I've only been doing street for eight months...
It sure is hard! But I’m glad to hear you’re getting out there and improving - all best wishes for a fruitful 2024 of street photography :)
You didn’t say what lens you were using before the 23mm
XF 35mm f2
Hello,can you tell me whether you just do this as a hobby or whether you generally sell your street photos? Can i buy some images from you? Greeting M.F.
Hey! It’s just a hobby for me but I do take it seriously :)
Come and take pictures in Korea to upgrade your photography.
Even Alex Webb took so-so pictures when he came to Korea.
A country where there are people who are not favorable of being taken picture with no permission, too many distracting electric wires above and between buildings, parked cars that spoil photo frame. Most of all, people all have cameras or are always ready to take pictures of their own by smartphone.
I have been to Korea and taken picture there - nice place :)