Overview
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Follow along with photographer and educator Steve Simon to learn the art of candid street photography, from gear choices to shooting techniques.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome to Street Photography
- Reviewing the gear used by a street photographer
- Introducing the street and shooting with a long lens
- Photographing the crowd at 57th street in NYC
- Taking the studio onto the street with a white background
- Reviewing the images from the busy street location
- Exploring the goals and techniques for shooting in a busy urban park
- Focusing in on the people and the scenes of the urban park
- Reviewing the images from the urban park scene
- Getting permission to photograph someone
- Working the street scenes in Chinatown
- Working shots of people skating and traffic
- Reviewing the images of interesting people and places
- Shooting in a busy, culturally significant part of the city
- Photographing people in a sensitive or significant place
- Reviewing the images from Memorial Park in NYC
- Shooting a hectic urban street environment in low light
- Working a busy urban street scene in low light
- Reviewing the images from Times Square
- Looking at the final images from the street shoot
