Mastering Street Photography

by Brian Lloyd-Duckett

Overview

Mastering Street Photography is a practical guide to capturing the candid moments that reveal life at its most dramatic, absurd or beautiful.

Street photography has a tradition dating back over a century, and today's digital world finds it enjoying a renaissance—yet there is little expert advice available. This is a practical guide to capturing the candid moments that reveal life at its most dramatic, absurd, or beautiful. Brian Lloyd Duckett demonstrates how the successful street photographer needs to be an unseen observer, with the camera a mirror of everyday scenes and unaware subjects.

A guide to equipment and technical skills leads into lessons in finding inspiration, developing projects, and composing different subjects and scenes—laying the foundations for you to impose your personality on your photography and develop your own distinctive style. The book also addresses such key issues as staying safe and within the law when photographing on the street, and the art of building an audience for your images.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781452691
Publisher:	Ammonite Press
Publication date:	04/01/2017
Series:	Mastering
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	9.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Brian Lloyd Duckett is the Principal and Course Tutor at Streetsnappers, a specialist in street photography workshops and tutorials in London and cities across Europe. A highly successful commercial and editorial photographer, he teaches as a Visiting Lecturer on photography degree courses. He has worked for many leading newspapers and commercial organizations, but his hobby and passion is street photography. He is the author of Mastering Street Photography, Street Photography Workshop, 52 Assignments: Street Photography, 52 Assignments: Black & White Photography, 52 Assignments: Portrait Photography (Ammonite Press). Brian is based in Merseyside, England.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1
Equipment 12
Film or Digital? 14
Digital Cameras 16
Shooting Film 20
Lenses 22
Accessories 26
Other Essentials 28

Chapter 2
Technical Skills 30
Exposure 32
Focus 36
Composition 40
Raw or JPEG? 52
Shooting For Color 54
Shooting For Black & White 56
Low Light 58
Assignment 1: Alone 62
Assignment 2: It’s all a Blur 64

Chapter 3
Inspiration 66
Finding & Developing your Style 68
Develop a ‘Project’ Mentality 70
Color or Black & White? 74
What to Shoot 76
Where to Shoot 94
Assignment 3: Juxtaposition 104
Assignment 4: Objects 106

Chapter 4
On Location 108
Planning a Shoot 110
Working Safely 114
Developing Observational Skills 115
How to Be Invisible 116
Conquer Your Fear 120
Timing 126
Assignment 5: Up Close & Personal 130
Assignment 6: Where I live 132

Chapter 5
Legal & Ethical Issues 134
Shooting on the Streets 136
Photographing Children 144
Cultural issues 145
‘Red Lines’ 146
Copyright 147

Chapter 6
Postproduction 152
The Integrity of the Image 154
Image-Editing Software 156
Cropping 160
Editing Raw Images 162
Converting to Monochrome 164
Fine Tuning in Photoshop 166

Glossary 170

Useful websites 172

Index 173

Acknowledgments 176