6 Years of Street Photography Knowledge in 6 Minutes
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- Опубликовано: 27 май 2024
- In this video I distil 6 years of street photography knowledge into a short video to help you improve your street photography fast. Of course there is a lot more to street photography than just the things I mention in this video, but I've tried to pack the video full of practical and actionable advice to make you a better street photographer faster.
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The confidence is probably the hardest part, I keep worrying how people think about what I'm doing, or should I say I worry others find me disturbing....
Absolutely! Me too sometimes, it’s a hard thing to improve at. Will deffo do a video about it soon as it’s a stumbling block for most street photographers!
That's exactly my concern too, too many hesitant moments which make me miss many of the moments...
@@timjamiesonphotos glad to know ! Luckily I have subscribed🤭 fan from Malaysia tho !
Excuses. I was 10 years old taking candid shots of muses during a school fair using a Fujifilm Clearshot. The shutter sound and the film rolling is loud. Not only that, I had to go develop the film so the film developer could see the photos I took, and then I had to show my guardian the photos because she pays for developing the film. Nowadays, shutters sound so quiet and your photos don't need to be developed
@@brownwallet942 kinda sure u left ur message in wrong place 😂 nobody talks about shutter speed sound here 🫡
Superb advice for street photography delivered straightforwardly minus the all-too-usual RUclips bloat.
So kind, thanks!
A thing that helped me a lot recently is going to city festivals. Lots of changing scenes and a lot of people. You're almost invisible because so much is happening at the same time.
My usual trick when taking shots of people in the street, assuming the noticed me and give me a weird look, is to keep your eyes focused on something behind them when you lower the viewfinder from your eye after the shot. Take a few steps to either side and keep looking on that spot behind them. They'll probably look around and wonder what you were shooting, but it could've been anything. No confrontations so far.
As someone who just started in Street photography, this has truly helped me and inspired, as someone with anxiety I feel like getting out there and shoot photos will help me with it and to be more creative.
This comment has made my day! Thank you, I’m so happy to hear that. That’s my goal with this channel, just to try and help inspire people to give street photography a go and try and improve their skills, so glad this has helped you. Happy shooting! 📸
Wow. Finally a RUclipsr giving good, straight to the point, no-nonsense advice. Kudos!!!
Yeah most are out to promote gear, the worst being clandestine about it, the best just putting it out front “sponsored by Sony, gear lent by Sony …” - too few of these direct ones, unfortunately!
Good advice. The "don't take it too seriously" is key. Don't expect too much, and most importantly be patient and enjoy yourself. The photos will come eventually, so just go out and do your thing. Know that the hit rate for a good street photo is astronomically low, but you'll get nowhere if you don't go out and shoot. I've burned through 3 rolls in a few hours and felt like I didn't get anything good. And there will be times you want to give up and think it's a waste of time, that is until you get that one shot where it all becomes worth it, and then it becomes an addiction :)
If you want to be good at something, and take it to the next level, you need to take it seriously! If you are happy with just being mediocre, just producing the same run of the mill, boring, unoriginal photos, like the millions of other "photographers" on the internet, then sure......
That Cycle Thieves photo is outrageously good!
Thank you!
great advices, most of all: 1. don't care about gear 2. enjoy what you are doing (have fun)
Good advices and you are the only one i dare to say who say something interesting not only talking of gears. Thank you
I just went on a trip abroad and in my spare time I wandered the streets of the city trying to get some photos. One thing stands out to me as a complete beginner: all the tourists wandering around with their Canon EOS cameras and big lenses. And I see all these street photography videos where many have small inconspicuous cameras, and I thought 'Aha! So that's why'...because whenever I point my large-ish 24-105 lens at someone, they notice immediately and turn away, but they guy next to me with his mobile phone goes completely un-noticed. It's like, they see the size of the lens and react to that even if the mobile phone next to me has the same resolution.
Yeah 100% the bigger the camera the more noticeable you are on the street and people are suspicious of it :)
it is in your head. I am a photojournalist and use an SLR with a 24-70 or sometimes even medium format just act; like you're supposed to be there and be quick, not sneaky... you can google my name and see my Instagram or magazine/newspaper work. I am invisible even with a large setup. just keep doing it with whatever camera you have and it will get easier.
Ive had your post stacked up for three weeks! and this cold Saturday night was the night.
today on a raw, huge wild beach I saw a gorgeous young family of four struggling to take selfies in parkas and wind, so I raced over to them , using his phone, I caught the incredible soft sundown around them, on a log, no-one for miles,( until walkers come around the huge rock in the shot) and they glowed like a holy family, they were thrilled. sometimes it's enough... I don't need the pic. Your tips are So good, thankyou!
Ah I’m so happy to hear that! What a lovely story too. Really glad you find my tips helpful - happy shooting! 📸
Thank you for your time to share with us your valuable advices, does and donts! Much appreciated!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it 👌🏻
I've learnt so much in just one video, you've made me appreciate my love for photography
Ah thank you! So glad to hear that 🙏🏻
I only took up photography last year with an old Pentax DSLR. I love nature and wildlife but really want to get into street photography. Your advice with a straightforward, no nonsense approach is the best I’ve seen. Thankyou so very much 🙂
Thank you! Glad you enjoy the videos. Welcome to the world of street photography - it’s great! 🙏🏻
@@timjamiesonphotos you’ve certainly given me the confidence to try it. I’m a very outgoing person who loves meeting new people, yet going amongst them with a camera makes me feel nervous oddly enough. You might have cured me of that!
well said!! you broke it down perfectly for me! thank you! i really look up to amazing photographers like you and others who keep it real!!
Ah, Jair I’m so happy to hear that! Really glad you found the video helpful 🙏🏻
Good advice Tim and keeping the points simple and concise really helps for someone like me who is relatively new to street photography and wanting to learn more to develop my skills and style.
Just started taking photos over the last couple of months. Such a good guide! Subscribed. 👊
Finally straight to the point information. Subbed!
Really helpful advice, thank you. Lots of inspiration and ideas.
It's something that I can relate to a lot. Thank you!!
Great video. So helpful!
Another great and insightful film. Will have to catch up and go on a photo walk🙂
Thanks for sharing,it really helps me a lot
“Go out with a positive mindset.. take some photos, meet some people, appreciate a life outside in the real world..”☘️ beautiful said 🎈
Thank you! 🙏🏻
Thanks so much for Sharing your wisdom! These seem valuable points to me.
Thank you !!
This... this was so great. I hope this is the new trend in youtube. You provide such excellent value in such a compact format, thanks so much. My takeaway is to print my work more. I always think I gotta go the expensive high-end route but cheap printing is a great first step.
I also want to compliment you on the images. They were nurturing to see. And much better than the usual street stuff I see which just has shadow and a person walking (instant turn-off for me). The images you show us have soul and a deeper relationship to life.
Thanks again!
That is a lovely comment! Thank you, it’s made my day. Glad you enjoyed the format, plan to make more videos like this in the future :)
@@timjamiesonphotos there is a clarity to this way of delivering that is hard to find on youtube so I'm sure you will stand out with this. Thank you again and I wish you a wonderful journey (and I think you should coach people but you probably already do)
Well put together, Tim. Excellent information.
Thank you, David! Glad you think so 👌🏻
Cheers Tim, so much good stuff in a short space of time, terrific 👌 Thanks for posting.
Thank you, Trevor! I’m happy you think so 👌🏻
Great video! Thanks for sharing!
My pleasure!
Well-done, succinct and fun!! Have a great day!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed 🙌🏻
Such a valuable video!!! amazing knowledge
Glad you think so!
Great video! Agree on everything outlined here. I've been at this game for 50+ years, and it never gets dull. But you forgot one or possibly two vital points, apart from making prints, get those prints up on a wall, and get them into a book. Prints don't have to be huge either. 10 x 8 or 10 x 12 is fine. Even smaller, as there are plenty of small frames for sale all the time in charity/thrift shops/stores. Just get pictures seen, and away from social media!
Totally agree. One of the best things we've done as a family is buy a Fujifilm Instax printer and a pinboard. It's now so easy to print shots out and pin them up to remind us all of what's been going on over the previous few weeks. When we run out of space, we start 'overwriting' the oldest photos by moving them elsewhere and newer memories take their place. They're not massive, the print quality is so-so, but just walking past them and seeing them again over and over for a few weeks is really great.
Thank you, Tim!
My pleasure!
I think confidence is the most important thing in street photography. I always find myself too hesitant and anxious to photograph a scene with the necessary calm and composure when people are involved.
💎High quality!💎
Great and precise advices!
Thanks!!
Thank you very much for the recap, Tim! To others I truly can recommend all of your videos in which you've put the finger on one of the detailed aspects. During my now first year of street photography you are definitely the source on YT I have learned the most from, concerning operational matters, alongside with the "usual" books. (My other two main sources/channels being Sean Tucker (mentally) and Alex Kilbee (artistically)). My personal deviation of your advice: With an overall photographic experience of more than 45 years I change focal lengths more often than once per six months (sometimes daily), because I am trained to adapt my inner eye (although needing some shots to "recalibrate" cerebrally), but usually I stick with one lens per day in the streets. Once again, thanks for your work, and please keep it up, it's truly valuable!
Thanks so much! Really happy you enjoy the videos, that means a lot and keeps me making them 🙏🏻
Fantastic video again Tim 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you mate!! 🙏🏻
Great presentation. Hit the nail on the head
Thank you!!
There's a book by Joel Meyerowitz I'd like to have, "How I Make Photographs." It's not that expensive, least than $20. But I just bought a new photo printer, so my photography budget has been shot for a while. Turning your photos into physical objects is important and changes your relationship with your photography. I haven't printed anything big yet, although that's what I bought this printer for, I have printed a mess of 4x6s.
My biggest problem on the street is my own anxiety and lack of confidence. It's getting better. I actually asked people for portraits the last time I was out for a street photo walk. Progress is being made, slowly but steadily.
Yeah couldn’t agree more! Get that book, it’s great. I sometimes have it in my backpack when I go out just for a bit of inspiration.
And yeah confidence is one of the biggest hurdles for all street photographers, will do a video all about it at some point, but the more you do it the more confident you get - at least that’s how I feel! It’s like exercising a muscle
@@timjamiesonphotos My anxiety is easing the more I do street photography. I really admire the candid street portraiture of Dawn Eagleton. I got introduced to her with an interview Sean Tucker did on his channel.
Excellent video mate. Thank-you
My pleasure!
Excellent tips on what to do. The main thing is to get out there and shoot some stuff and just be you doing it. Thanks Tim for the great advice as always!!
Yes exactly! Thanks, Tony :)
Outstanding advice. I love flipping through my photo books. Need to print my work more.
Thanks so much mate, glad you enjoyed it
This video was really really great. I'm sure this single video is going to help me a lot in future. I'm actually going to make short notes of your ther videos too just like this one.
Thanks Tim 🌟
Ah I’m so happy to hear that! Glad you enjoyed 🙏🏻
Thankyou. Terrific advice.
My pleasure!
Best tips ever.
Ah, too kind!
Print!!! Great recommendation no one else mentions.
Ah thanks! I think it’s a game changer to be honest 👌🏻
Inspirational and powerful advise, thanks for sharing.
My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed 🙏🏻
Great video. I got YT suggested this & watched.
I'm a seasoned street tog and all your points are 100% spot on.
BUT to fully realise their wisdom takes much experience
Awesome! Glad you enjoyed, thank you 🙌🏻
...great summary....
Thanks! Glad you think so 🙏🏻
Some fantastic advice there mate thanks a lot
My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it
Beyond helpful - been at it the last 6 months and I was starting to hit a wall, no more!
So glad to hear it was helpful mate! Happy shooting 📸
I always share your advices. I like this video. Congrats.
Glad to hear that!
Tbilisi
Thank you! I loved Tbilisi! Have a video from there coming out later today :)
Excellent advice 👌
Thanks!
Thank. You.
My pleasure!
great video, very useful, thank you!
Thank you! Glad you found it useful :)
Great video man!
Thanks!
Liked and subscribed. Awesome. Having a xs20 for 6 months and i think your advice is real valuable and impressive
Ah thanks!
Helpful video, thank you
Very glad to hear that! 🙏🏻
Excellent tips on this video, I am guilty of taking 4 cameras on a day out it and hinders you so much. I have also learnt not to compare my work, and shoot what I like and develop my own style.
Your most important point is one that's mentioned too infrequently: Print your photos!
I started out in film in the 90s right up until 4 years ago, so if I wanted to see the image at all, I had to print it. Once I moved fully to digital, I made sure to buy a good printer, and I print every image that I edit.
Well-presented and full of good points, in under 7 minutes. Subscribed!
Thanks heaps! Glad you enjoyed and I’m definitely going to be printing a lot more of my work this year, it’s so good to do!!
Fantastic
thank you for present students
subscribed!
Thanks!
I used to have quite complex ideas in my mind when out in London (or elsewhere) with my camera. But nowadays it's simpler - mainly my mantra "some photos you make, others you take". It's my reminder to take certain photos very quickly without dillydallying or overthinking. If you try to juggle too much methodology consciously, it slows down your reactions.
Love it! 🙏🏻
that CYCLE THEIVES brillant
Thanks heaps!
What a really nice guy
Aww shucks!
Loved the red dot moment 😂 Great advice 👍🏻
Haha 👌🏻🔴
Thanks so much. Wise words. I never thought of making small prints of my street photos, but I'm going to try it. I'll tape the prints on the refrigerator and walk around them for a few days then ask myself, Which one(s) really work? Thanks again, Tim.
Great! So glad to hear that. I’ve printed more recently and they are all over my office wall. Really helps to sit and look at them and arrange them and you really see what works and what doesn’t that way
I've been following you from some time starting last year. Thank you for keeping producing these insightful videos, sometimes with some vlog style to express your thoughts and your stuggle.
Using my smartphone to photograph, I'm automatically bound to 1 focal length (ca. 26mm eq.) so i start to feel a bit of the focal length.
Ah thank you!!
Great video. The one rule of yours which can be broken is the using one focal length. I am someone who has used a 28 mm almost exclusively, but occasionally it’s good to grab another lens to capture pictures that would have been impossible to get with a wide lens.
Yeah deffo :)
Thanks for the tips! I’ve been going out to take street photos after on hiatus for some time.
Speaking of gear, it doesn’t matter, any camera or lens is good enough to take good street photos.
Now let me check that new lens in b&h …. 😅
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“Knowing the law where you are living.” Haha that is the reason why I’m nervous. In Hungary it’s illegal to take a picture in the street without written permission from everyone on the picture.
Ah yeah that’s tough. Maybe try street portraits with permission or a more abstract approach?
I love this! Do you also have a video on how to edit your shots and give some tips?
Thanks! Glad you found it useful. I don’t have a post-processing tutorial at the moment, but will be releasing presets soon!
Henry Jacques Lartigue was given a camera when he was ten. It broke.
While it was being fixed he used to practice capturing the moment by blinking.
Look him up and see just how incredible it makes his work.
Yup indecision kills
Thanks for the tips! I was expecting typical "you are not a photog if you do not know this" but it was wholesome onstead
Ah thanks Josh! Yeah it’s kinda hard to stand out on RUclips so this video has a hit of a click-baity type title and thumbnail but I tried to make a video that shows my genuine best takeaways from a good few years of street photography - glad you enjoyed! 🙏🏻
@@timjamiesonphotos Cheers!
To be honest: I was sceptical with the video title as I never heard about you before. But I have to say: Great video with very helpful tipps and amazing photography! Your photos have a depth, there is always a bigger idea but one can also get lost in the details.
Thank you!
Subbed!
agreed and subbed
Awesome channel i just found
Thanks!
As always great advice, get out there folks you never know when life will serve you a curve ball and you won't be able to, I suffered a heart attack, which I am recovering from, but presently restricted in where I can get to.
A sorry to hear that Alan! But yes it can definitely be very powerful to document where you live 🙏🏻
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Another thoughtful, valuable video. Thanks Tim. However, could we perhaps nuance the 'gear is not important message' because it's quite misleading for beginners.
Could we maybe say something like "you don't need lots of gear, or to buy brand new, luxury brand gear. But it's important to be comfortable with your camera and lens. If you're not, then ask around to see if you could change to something more suitable for you and the way you shoot. You should be excited to pick up your camera every time not see it as a struggle"
Yes that’s a good way of putting it 😊
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I really want to start doing street photography more. Especially during the summer when events are slow for me. How often do you find people not liking the fact that you're taking photos of them in public? I think that's what I worry most about.
Great! I basically never have anyone care that I’ve taken a photo of them. But it takes a lot of practice and the right approach, will make a video about it soon!
Great video with useful advices ! By the way, what you use to print? Canon Selphy CP1300?
I just found a company online to print out cheap prints :)
I feel like you and Joe Allam should co create something!
2:17 great shot. Thank you for your video Tim. i would like to mention that learning how to print could help you grow. and still not sure which fuji to get. wait for the E5 or X100VI or maybe get a second hand leica. size is a thing and the higher megapixel race is holding me back, different look and higher noise in higher megapixels'. what are your thoughts?
Thanks mate! I’m not much of a gear guy to be honest. I just go by whatever camera makes you want to go out and shoot with it is the one you want. Megapixels don’t matter for street photography :)
Thx for the Leica bit haha! Hit me right in the face, as I‘m currently trying to justify buying a digital M. I‘ll stick to shooting more and get better with what I currently have for now :)
Haha, no offence to the Leica owners, or future owners!
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You packed a LOT of excellent information into six and a half minutes. Bravo. Going too long on RUclips loses the audience.
Thanks, Gary! Much appreciated 🙏🏻
Solid advice. Camera clubs used to be a key part of my own community, but - sad to say - in the US they have declined in recent years. Don’t know if same in UK. BTW, thumbnail shows use of no-squint method - is that what you generally use? Cheers!
Thanks Paul! That’s a shame, I’m not part of a camera club in the UK but I think they are quite popular, I’m definitely trying to be less introverted these days and make the effort to talk to other photographers I see when I’m out shooting. Re the thumbnail, I think I was just looking at my partner when she was taking the shot to make sure she wasn’t messing it up 😂 I usually close one eye haha
make me wonder which fuji camera would be more usefull, the xt5 or the 100VI, as in size, sensor and IQ for print. would be nice to have something small that you can always carry with you that isnt a phone.
Yeah that is currently my conundrum too!
Do vid on photo book collection
Haha maybe
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Do you have any recommended places to make prints in the UK? I often find myself overwhelmed with options and end up not following through
The print space is great for pro prints. Or for just cheap small ones any print on demand website will make decent little photo prints :)