Book description
Learn to train your eye and improve your timing in order to capture the decisive moment!Whether it’s due to social media or the introduction of great rangefinder-style digital cameras over a decade ago, street photography has experienced a remarkable resurgence in recent years. You can be roaming the streets of a classic urban environment (New York, Paris, Tokyo) or on a simple photo walk around a quiet neighborhood—it has never been more popular to pursue the art of capturing those candid, fleeting moments that happen throughout the day, of freezing a moment in time and transforming the ordinary into an extraordinary photograph.
But learning to see light and moment, to make quick decisions, and to nail a photographic composition are all crucial skills you must master in order to become a good street photographer. Photographer, instructor, and author Valerie Jardin has been teaching photographers how to take better photographs for years, and in Street Photography Assignments: 75 Reasons to Hit the Streets and Learn, she provides dozens of prompts for you to practice in order to refine and improve your craft.
These activities focus on themes such as:
• Street portraits• Gesture
• Shadows
• Silhouettes
• Rim light
• Humor
• Abstract
• Tension
• Motion
• Reflections
• Leading lines
• Creative framing
• Juxtapositions
• Double exposures
• And much, much more!
Each assignment includes a description of the technique, various tips and tricks to practice, technical and compositional considerations, and an example photo that Jardin has captured when practicing the same exercise. Whether you have 30 minutes or 3 hours, each assignment is an opportunity for you to take your camera and hit the streets. No more excuses!
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- About the Author
- Contents
- Introduction
-
Assignments
- 1 Street Performers
- 2 Street Portrait
- 3 Environmental Portrait
- 4 Street Portrait with a Story
- 5 Photographing Children
- 6 Eye Contact
- 7 Creative Self-Portraits
- 8 Silhouettes
- 9 Silhouettes with Sunburst
- 10 Rim Light
- 11 Shadows
- 12 Shafts of Light
- 13 Golden Hour
- 14 Blue Hour
- 15 From Shadows into Light
- 16 Bokeh
- 17 The Street at Night
- 18 The Correct Step
- 19 All About Color
- 20 Photographing the Back of People
- 21 The Timeless Subject
- 22 Gesture
- 23 Humor
- 24 Humanity Without People in the Frame
- 25 Go Fishing
- 26 The Minimalist Approach in the Urban Landscape
- 27 The Minimalist Approach in the Natural World
- 28 Juxtaposition
- 29 Interconnections
- 30 Reflections in Water
- 31 Reflections in Glass
- 32 Reflection in a Mirror
- 33 Split Image Reflection
- 34 Double Exposure
- 35 Natural Creative Filter
- 36 Creative Framing
- 37 Creative Focusing
- 38 Rule of Thirds
- 39 Centering Your Subject
- 40 Letting the Subject Come to You
- 41 Looking In
- 42 Looking Out
- 43 Looking Up
- 44 Looking Down
- 45 Low Angle
- 46 Leading Lines
- 47 Negative Space
- 48 Creating Tension
- 49 Layers
- 50 Panning
- 51 Slow Shutter Speed
- 52 Tilt It Like You Mean It
- 53 Using a Specialty Lens
- 54 Using Your Camera’s Advanced Filters
- 55 Using Billboards or Storefronts
- 56 Using Signage
- 57 Iconic Landmark
- 58 Story in Multiple Frames
- 59 Play in the Rain
- 60 Public Transportation
- 61 Train Station Platforms
- 62 Airports
- 63 Hands
- 64 Feet
- 65 Umbrellas
- 66 Hats
- 67 Dogs
- 68 Love
- 69 Readers
- 70 Limitations
- 71 Color x 4
- 72 Shop Owners
- 73 Artists and Their Spaces
- 74 Photograph an Event
- 75 Photograph a Fair at Night
- Conclusion: Get Lost on Purpose
Product information
- Title: Street Photography Assignments
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2020
- Publisher(s): Rocky Nook
- ISBN: 9781681986814
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