Street photography

A col­lec­tion of links and infor­ma­tion on street photog­ra­phy.

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Techniques, issues and instructions

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“ton.edu/lester/writings/chapter2.html”>Photojour­nal­ism Assign­ments and Tech­niques”

Lens sta­bi­liza­tion is key to mak­ing good SP images.

An illus­trat­ed essay on toryteller.com/YITL/Mark%20Lent/february22.html”>legal issues with photojour­nal­ism

Get­ting tographer_sued_for_taking_portrait.php”>sued for tak­ing street por­traits

tography.com/”>Still alive, a photoblog with tech­nique and how-to arti­cles of inter­est to street photog­ra­phers, all part of Nit­sa’s “no rules” site of tography.com/”>nonphotog­ra­phy (freeform street photos). (Exam­ple: tography.com/Gallery/favorite/feb07/favorite0207_005.html”>Holga of Randy’s Donuts)

Good dis­cus­sion: “tography/612341/”>Gettting those great can­did shots. I am too shy or scared. What do you do? got any hor­ror stories?”

Nick Turpin was fea­tured on Stro­bist in 2009 for an inter­est­ing Men’s Health photo shoot he did: in tak­ing street photos of var­i­ous well-dressed peo­ple, he under­ex­posed the ambi­ent light and then used a few strobes to “carve in some high­lights”; and since he did­n’t need tripods or stands for such shots he was fine even in a photo-unfriend­ly city like Lon­don (In-Pub­lic is Turpin’s street photog­ra­phy site.)

Exam­ples and tips of to.net/learn/architectural/exterior”>getting archi­tec­ture on the streets.

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Good examples of street photography

Todd Gross, NYC: Quarlo.com

Philip-Lor­ca Dicor­cia, NYC: Times Square shots, a series called street por­traits

Joe’s NYC

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