Stop Making These Street Photography Mistakes
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- Опубліковано 20 лип 2024
- In part 2 of my Common Street Photography Mistakes series. In this episode I discuss 5 AMATEUR street photography mistakes and offer you some advice on how to fix them. Watch this if you want to level up your street photography skills.
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0:00 Intro
0:34 Online Store
1:30 Good Light
3:42 Anticipate
5:29 Find Your Style
7:10 Open Your Mind
8:49 No Zooms - Розваги
Thanks, Justin. Great advice as usual. I love the part about finding one's personal style. Prime lenses forever.
Great insights and banter
Thanks for putting it out!
Thank Darcy :).
Thank you Justin! Though I’m not street photographer I can definitely use your advice in my photography! Very thought provoking points.
Sincerely thank you Michalis.
These are excellent photographic fundamentals for all genres Justin. Not just street. As an environmental portrait photog and storyteller, I'd say everyone needs to hear your thoughts. Thanks for sharing. Couldn't agree more on small prime lenses. I LOVE my Sigma 35mm f/2.8 DG DN on the Leica SL. I'm sure the Leica SL lenses are technically superior, but at over $5K each...
• Use Interesting Light
• Find Your Voice
• Break the Rules
• Take Chances
Thanks JK and yeah I agree about the Sigma lenses they are actually really nice and fantastic value.
I need more than one word. However if I pick one ,,, attentive ? I don't know never thought about it ... it's a great food for thought . thank you. You are such a great mentor.
That’s a fantastic one word answer Mike. Thanks for sharing.
Great video! Awesome advice. Been shooting photos for 20 years but never took it on a serious level, But always felt like my photos were mediocre but now I understand it’s because I never took it seriously. Starting a photography project sounds like a really fun idea.
Do it do it , start a project like today and you’ll be happy to did.
@@AskMOTT thank you for your inspiring videos!
I have one zoom lens, which also is my only autofocus lens, a 24-70mm f4, which I mostly use for portraits and as a flexible workhorse lens when I'm not sure of the conditions I'll be shooting in. Otherwise I only use Voigtlander manual focus prime lenses. I prefer how they make me work, and I love their way of rendering images.
I always found that 24-70mm made me lazy as a shooter , but yes it’s very versatile. I found it very helpful for filming actually .
@@AskMOTT it can make anyone a lazy photographer if he/she doesn't know how to or why they are using this specific lens and at the specific focal lens they're using. For example, whenever I'm doing a portrait I know what I want to create, I've already imagined it visually. The focal length I'm choosing is dependent on that visualization. The same when I shoot architecture, I know what affect the 24mm end will give me compared to the 70mm and what I want to achieve with it. I never use it avoid getting close to the subject or something like that :)
That said, with my lens collection soon to be finished, with a 15mm, 21mm, 28mm, 50mm and a 105mm prime lens (three of them Voigtlander lenses, two Nikkor vintage lenses, all of them nice and compact) I'll soon won't need the 24-70mm lens that much anymore. I'm typically using only the 21mm and 50mm, unless I need to get a ultra-wide shot or some details I can't get close to, where I'd use the 15mm and 105mm. And the 28mm is mostly for documentary stuff. The only use I'll have for the 24-70mm is for my portrait stuff and situations where the weather demands it.
Good tips! I had been thinking about buying a zoom lens and now after your video I think I will wait and work more with the lens I have and then consider a prime! Thanks Justin....nice haircut 🙂
Thanks Sue, you’ll love going full primes:).
Seriously, street photography is not about picture quality. It's about the stories you tell. Very often you find yourself in a position where you can't get any closer. This moments will come and you will bitterly regret not having higher focus lengths. Sometimes you also just need more compression to make the picture work.
... and believe me.... there's nothing more satisfying then taking a picture of a praying nun with pigeons fucking right behind her back.
The big benefit of a primelens is just the huge aperture width wich is only beneficial for low light or really fast action.
Everyone should have a nifty fifty but more is pointless in street photography cause when you changed the lens the right moment has already passed and will never come back again..
Sure, sometimes the picture may look technically imperfect first, but it can be fixed in Darktable, Lightroom, Snapseed, PS or whatever else you got in your toolbox.
Really enjoyed this video. Thx.
Thank you Mark.
I am new to your channel and not sure if you have a video already but if not I would like to know more about submitting work to a newspaper, how to get started thank you
Great tips , thank you as always! Those photos look great btw, do you use newer 35mm 1.4 ASPH FLE? Or just ASPH.
Thanks Francisco, just the aspherical for me.
Good talk and good sharing 👏
Thank you Abu :).
Great tips! And yeah, I like the look without the hat. Fresh!
Thanks Paul :)
Really like the video! But is there a reason why your video looks really dark with out any color?
He forgot to correct the colors on log footage. That’s what it looks like 🤔
yeah i thought i was the only one..lol
He is a pro with such amateur skills
When first starting out with digital, my camera had a kit zoom on it and of course used it. As it turned out, at least 90% of my photos were within a very tight focal length range around 35mm. As such, I usually just run with that prime and call it good. On occasion I’ll toss the zoom back on to do a self check of focal length to see if I’ve migrated to 28 or 50, but so far, no.
Trivia: One advantage the Pacific Northwest has for monochrome photographers is the relentless overcast giving us one huge softbox. Maybe that’s why the predominant paint color is gray. Ha!
Thanks again Justin for your time and thoughts.
Thanks for commenting , you make me miss that region , I love shooting there.
Hey Justin. Nothing to do with this particular video which I'm just about to watch. I just wanted to let you know that based on your commentary in prior videos, today I went to the James Nachtwey exhibit at Fotografsika in New York City. Very powerful. I was blown away. Anyway, thanks.
That’s so wonderful to hear Mark , if you can get your hands on one of his many books you’ll be amazed.
Nice content. But, have a look at your volume levels when it changes to music ;-)
10k subs !
Thanks Paulie, that was a nice moment for me.
Describe your street photography style in 1 word and link your website in the comments section.
The hair is good.
What’s left of it ha ha. Thanks
Hi bro
Hey bro back at you :).
one camera one lense.
first
Thanks for watching :).
Juxtaposition
:) thanks for sharing Gerry.