20 Skills of Street Shooting

Lead: Now the threshold of photography is getting lower and lower, and more and more people join the photography team. Let me talk about 20 techniques of street shooting. Let's have a look!

1. The fewer devices, the better.

It's not a good idea to take too many lenses and lights if you want to sweep the street and take good photos. These burdens will distract your observation, and when the good time for taking pictures appears, you can't attack quickly. Small numbers, side shafts, cameras with rotating screens, and even mobile phones are also sharp tools for sweeping the street and taking pictures.

2. Choose the scene of revival and activation

Don't just go to places like tourist attractions to find subjects. Although it's crowded there, it's easy for people to get up the courage to point their cameras at strangers and try to find more life and real scenes hidden under the surface. For example, start with your life and familiar environment.

3. Learn to predict the decisive moment

Learn to predict the picture that will appear, prepare the camera in advance, press your shutter and take a decisive moment.

4. Try color photography more.

Street shooting is mostly documentary. At this time, black and white photos will make the facts appear more powerful and formal, especially when news photography is shooting emergencies. However, some street shooting themes are very suitable for color photography, such as expressing a pleasant mood or objectively describing the street scene environment, and the restored colors will be more vivid, real and pleasing to the eye.

5. Discover the visual symbols on the street

Visual symbols such as billboards, signboards and graffiti on the street, if used as the background, may make your photos more street-like and different, and can also be used as the theme when there is no eye-catching shooting theme.

6. Street shooting can be very experimental.

Try diagonal composition to break the limitation of horizontal and vertical composition. Either diagonal graphics appear in the picture or tilt your camera. Street shooting is very casual, blind shooting. Shake it, zoom in and out, and let your photos experiment.

7. Change your perspective

Shooting the scenery across the street, the unique perspective will surprise people.

8. Performance

Parades and performances, as well as other entertainment activities on the street, and major events are also common scenes in street shooting.

9. Where people gather

Taking big scenes is to go to places where people gather, such as playgrounds, markets, performance venues, parks, sports activities and exhibitions, and you can take good photos.

10. New shooting angle

Try to find a higher or lower angle to shoot, even if the head-up angle is unique, shooting down or up is easier to guide the line of sight.

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After a period of practice, not only your shooting skills will improve, but also your insight into the surrounding things will continue to improve.

12. Luck is often brave.

Don't be afraid of the photographer's little resistance, be brave enough to get close to your subject and the truth, so as to shoot shocking and impactful works.

13. Light application that breaks the routine

We often try to avoid the bright spots and shadows that may be caused by direct sunlight. We should be good at breaking these conventional light applications and using different light to get better images in street shooting.

14. Stand by at any time.

Stay on standby at all times, and only those fleeting images can be captured. Hang the camera around your neck or shoulder. If you are portable, you can put it on the outermost part of your pocket or bag, so that you can catch the camera as soon as possible. Automatic shift is a good idea, but if you have experience, manual exposure and focusing can also be very fast.

15. Follow the makeup

When we realize that a story is going to happen, we can take follow-up shots to make up for it until we get a satisfactory picture.

16. Fast photography and slow photography on the street

There are often moving people and cars in the street, so the shutter speed is above1125 to capture them effectively and clearly. Setting ISO to 400 can also ensure a higher shutter speed during the day. Slow shooting will make the car track at night and the illusion of moving during the day full of magic.

17. Road map

Many people have street shooting plots, not to shoot specific events, but simply to appreciate the street shooting customs of different cities and countries, and shoot street shooting from a completely objective perspective, either quiet or prosperous, with a unique charm.

18. wide-angle shooting

Exaggerated perspective will make street scenes interesting, and even use fisheye lenses.

19. communicate with subjects

Street shooting provides many opportunities to communicate with the subjects. Treat the subjects with courtesy and a smile. They usually reciprocate, and sometimes they encounter special circumstances. After their protest, you should also have a friendly attitude that is willing to delete these negatives.

20. location, location, location

The most important thing in street shooting is the choice of location. A group of musicians appeared in the butcher shop, which gave people a lot of imagination.