One way of getting into this mindset is to post mini projects on Instagram with each row of three images relating to each other in some way. If i have have two photos already that go together, then i will be out looking for a third one to complete the set before posting any of them.
In exploring RUclips’s photography offerings, I came upon your channel. It is one of the most inspiring, most informative and most useful sites I have come across. Going through your “portfolio” of past episodes keeps providing me with bits of guidance that help me in my photographic efforts and I look forward eagerly for your next postings. Thank you.
I found the part "where do we get the ideas" very interesting. I study Sociology and your explanation reminded me very much of the process of "qualitative/unstandardized content analysis". Another Buzzword for the Method might be "Grounded Theory". There aswell you have a question and start examining the material very closely and try to label every bit of a sentence until patterns start emerging. this sounds really subjective but to put the objectivness in there you repeat the process every time a new category forms until you could sort any new text to your categories. I can really see how photography could be used for that as a scientific project. when doing street photography the photographer is also in a mindset close to a social scientist. the question might be "how do people interact on the place xy with the rental bikes the city gives them access to". If you do your project long enough you probably could form categries aswell. I think Bourdieu also did street photography for his main book, i have to look into how he made the pictures. Super super interesting and inspiring video!! Thank you very much!
I came across this channel by simply going through youtube videos about photography, street photography, tips, tricks, etc etc, i watch your videos with great interest, there's so much information you give out to people for free, that's amazing! Listening to you talking about art of photography with such an ease and passion is some kind of hearthwarming and it makes me want to just go out and start shooting pictures! I've been interested in photography for a loong time, finally after many years i've finally managed to buy myself a proper camera. During this summer i'll spend countless hours out there in the streets to capture those precious moments of peoples lives. Thank you so much for your work, and keep it up! Best wishes!
Your Channel is very well done. I worked as a professional photographer for 40 years until I retired this last year. I've enjoyed street photography and nature photography for years so now I have more time for my passions. You've been a good source of inspiration. I taught adult photography for 15 years and a big part of my program was having students do projects so I stand by what you preach. I'll continue to follow.
Hearing you talk about getting my work taken serious is inspiring. I've watched this video twice now and I'm taking notes to start sketching my first project. I've been shooting streets for around 3-4 years but only for the fun of it and now I want to make a piece of work worthy of a coffee shop wall, as a first goal, so everyone can enjoy it or cirtique it or whatever. thank you for the great content. greetings from mexico.
Tito, that's really good to hear and I wish you well with your project. Please take your time, do lots of planning and don't rush it. Best of luck and greetings from London!
One added bonus to projects I found is that it gets you actively looking. One could even say actively seeing. I watched this video about a year ago when I was brand new to street photography and noticed when I started looking for something in particular I started to see other images that I would have normally missed by being overwhelmed with possibilities. I’m still new to street photography but find your input extremely helpful and valuable. Thank you.
Tried my first night street photography literally last night and had 2 themes(projects) in mind before even heading out, an Elvis exhibition has just started in my town and every shop has something Elvis themed in the window and there's heaps of restaurants and bars on the strip. The other was to then head to the club precinct, that made for some interesting sights and of course cafe's and little eateries packing up as the clubs open became a theme too
I've had the good fortune of discovering your channel on you tube as someone who's new to street photography and eager to learn. I truly appreciate your obvious expertise, your welcoming energy and your teachings. Thank you. I've been listening to a number of your videos over the past few days and am very grateful to have discovered you. Thank you again.
Great great great. Simple, effective, informative, inspiring and to the point , putting street photography to centre of the message unlike other channels where the narcissistic ego of the photographer is predominant. Thanks.
Brian, thanks for all these helpful advice. it's very true that this channel is 100% street and nothing else. I'm waiting the next one soon, greetings from Greece!
As an accidental street photographer (ie I one day found an increasing ratio of my photos are in this sub-genre), I have already set myself several projects (In/Out; Doors To Nowhere; People Outside Pubs) and find it a useful way to keep busy out there, to keep on snapping, and to summon-up new-to-me ideas. Happy accidents are a bonus and a blessing.
Thanks for this video, Brian. I am Italian and I am an amateur street photographer. I really love your work: your images are able to tell me stories and they are very inspiring. I will try to find out some ideas for making projects. Thanks again Brian.
In comparison to even little known street shooters I'm just scratching the surface of what it means to somewhat better of my own photography and it's overall view has been created for my likings to photography in general which has developed, as far as my photography is concerned, through extensive acquiring of whatever came ready at my hand like many wonderful books about from how to take pictures of impact to technicalities and pits and falls those worsen pictures and obviously the many people who are well known in photographing portraits, landscape, architecture, travel, sports, wildlife, and life on streets, generously, like you, gave the know how of their experiences through videos and they enriched me in every way not to say about even the person I'm today and my pictures, I believe, are the reflections of my person! I've learnt that what it takes to make a single successful picture and how much time it requires to get it exact finally in a print! Don't you see this successful single picture as a project for the photographer?! I'm not saying that this photographer made a fortune from a single photograph because this is what he did for all his landscape shots; imagine the dedication and toil and time he spends with undivided interest to what he is known for! I'm overwhelmed by your work on streets and your advice is so great and I'm looking forward to more from you in this regard! But I'm still not confined to only streets but I can say I'm most attracted to streets and then obviously the more fleetingly challenging wildlife and sports but the these are hindered the many ways I encountered in the days when I just started my first hearing of shutter fall, maybe many are replaced by new ones, but they are the stumbling blocks for my progress and it's a subject of real discussion but then again you have the undivided passion to take pictures and it's really seated inside your making photographs that couldn't be altered by any means; I really breathe it; I literally wear camera, a good one and an improved one, a better one which I can afford at a point of time to suit my needs!
Despite having both your books, I've yet to work on a project (sorry Brian!), but when you showed Mark Cohen's project it suddenly resonated with me. That's something I'd like to do, I'd enjoy doing as a project and might end up quite an interesting challenge. I realised a little while ago - and you make this point in the video - that shooting for a project does not preclude you from taking advantage of any seredipitous moments you come across. I've booked some trips to London for when the travel restrictions are due to be removed (I hope their removal isn't postponed) so I'll be doing just that - working on a project and binging on any nice moments that come my way. I know that whenever you buy a new car you immediately see that same model everywhere. I think working projects is the same - it primes the brain to notice the thing that you're thinking of. That must, in itself, mean you end up more likely to see potential keepers simply because your brain is tuned in.
Great comments. I hope you do that project! I can feel the world slowly opening up again so hopefully your trips to London won't be too far away now :-)
Ordered your 52 assignments street photography book yesterday and then this video showed up in my RUclips feed. Enjoyed the video and looking forward to going through the book.
We all need a nudge sometimes Linda - I hope this one works for you!
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i appreciate your videos on photography, you are an encyclopedia of knowledge to any new photographer. understanding failure is over 90% of photography put in to perspective to never give up and do what you can to get your photos out there. I save videos like these for reference of what not to lose track of. thank you for giving these artists a tutorial on increasing the chances of success. You are well respected for what you bring to us amatuers and pros alike.
Thank you. I had watched your 1st video on this subject and re-visited this one with some curiosity, not least because your first video had sparked / inspired some considerable thought on my behalf... You added a clear and very insightful tip in this one (re publishing your work, either one by one or collectively) and I found that invaluable - and brilliantly timed, as I'm currently locked down (outside UK) but busily planning various projects. You've potentially saved me from a grave error in execution, thank you again.
It is greatly fascinating going through old images and find gems that grow to beautiful projects! I found some old light-painting shots from ten years ago and that restarted a huge “machine” in me. Im almost done with a new project book now! Its wonderful to see that im not the only one with this experience ☺️
Hi Brian, Greetings from the Philippines. I enjoyed another great video and great ideas. Thanks for that! I really agree with your idea of working in projects and I have a feeling that when I have some projects in the back of my mind, I tend to see more. Maybe it is a form of cognitive bias, you only see it when you know what to look for. I think it added some depth to my street photography. Your video strengthened that believe. Especially in a time where I can still can not go as much as I want due to COVID. One small addition to your ideas of what to do with your projects, I have the experience that many magazines are always looking for copy and I have recently I had some visual stories (as I call my small photo projects with 3-4 paragraphs of text) published in a university magazine and some online. I can imagine that also other magazines, non photography, but that have a connection with the theme of your project could be interested. My two cents. Thanks again and take care, Ubo
Thanks Ubo, and greetings from London! I like your idea of cognitive bias - that's an interesting way of articulating it. And I like your magazine suggestion - thanks for sharing it :-)
just recently got the hang of projects. I'm an art student at University, and we always have to do projects; I just never realized to actually use my learned knowledge for my personal stuff. I have one project called "Making lines for..." and it's fun hah; and I just finished a very small project for university, which turned out so much better than all the work I did in the past. So I 100% agree; projects are underrated and I want to do more of them in the future!
Great advice. Once I started to watch your video I quickly understood the huge value of projects (as a missing link in my work). Thank you for this inspiring contribution.
I agree when you have a project in mind, you are more motivated to work hard and also have good time. For me, I'm inspired and study the masters then try to do my own way and approach.
The idea of creating a project is interesting, I'm just a hobbyist currently, but shooting a lot of thing randomly just getting not fun some times now, need some topic to focus on. Thank you for the video.
My most recent approach to Street Photography as well as Travel Documentation has been to create a photo essay to show the best of the day(s) observations of events, places people and things. It gives me a chance to interpose some titles, brief comments and connect the images to the theme of the shoot. After a recess due to health, I'm going back to the street just in time for our Nevada rainy and snowy winter.
The idea of projects has been nagging my brain for awhile now. I have a few ongoing projects in my head but I agree with you about jotting them down, putting them in writing in a notebook and then following through and thus creating a more clear focus and actually finishing them. I think you have given me the much needed push on the idea of projects. Thanks!
Thanks John. Yes, I find that I can really flesh out an idea once it's on paper and I find I'm forever changing it and adding new bits. It's an interesting exercise in itself :-)
Thanks a lot. Your advice is really very useful to me. Not everyone has the ability to naturally and easily transmit their knowledge and experiences so that they are useful to others, with clear and precise language. You do it very well and in a very pleasant way. Thanks.
Thanks for another interesting video Brian. You’re spot on about projects. I found when I first got into street photography I was fuelled by the novelty alone. But after a while it can start to feel directionless. I did what you suggest in this video and went through my work to find themes that had emerged subconsciously. By separating them out into ‘projects’ I achieved two things - I felt a sense of achievement in the body of work I’d shot so far and I gave myself specific themes to build on in the future. It was a real turning point in my approach and I think it improved my photography, or certainly my approach to it.
Hi Brian I love your view as to photography helping people with mental health issues, Which is the reason I love photography in the first place, it as helped me out over the years many many times. I was interested in what you said about photographs I have taken in the past and maybe putting them into a project of some sort. in the last few years I've been working in black and white mainly I shoot in colour and transform them in Lightroom normally raw files. I like street photography but I'm not able to walk around so much these days due to health problems, I tend to hang out around bars cafes sitting watching people interact every so often some one or a group come along and I end up photographing them I might only shoot very few pictures but I normally get good results. I have a lot of pictures like these and you have got me to thinking maybe I should do something with them a project no less is forming in my minds eye, so thank you for your advise Brian I enjoy your videos and will continue to follow you thanks Tony
thx for the Video. Bought your Book "52Assignments Street Photography" and worked with the thema in a city of Cologne in Germany. Man it was so much fun. Like u said it helps a lot. Helped me to be focused, to be cruise and to be satisfied by the end of the day. There is no boring times only boring people 😉! THX. I like your book very much!
Many thanks Brian, very thought provoking and very well communicated. I have bought your book 52 “assignments” which is very stimulating and I have produced a few photo books , purely for my own enjoyment and posterity, …But thinking back they are a bit random in nature. Your talk today has given me a more specific idea…I had a great mental image of your guy’s special wall with 9 images on a project theme…Which has sown an idea in my mind.. I am going to work on a book with perhaps nine uniform images per page or a uniform size and format that works for me, but I like the idea of uniformity of shape and size and each page or spread will have a very specific project theme. So a big thankyou for getting some creativity going in these rather monotonous lock down times!
Thank you for great speach on street photography projects. May be it could be a good idea to prepare a movie about books which every street photographer should have in a library, it would be very useful !
Thanks for the updated tutorial on 'street photography projects' (although i think your original take was almost as good). You've inspired me to be deliberate and begin some serious street photography projects, in my home city of Vancouver, Canada (which has quite a different look than London). Zines are a great idea as an end project, but I've got to hit the streets first!
@@StreetSnappers Indeed. No excuses! I'm making progress (with each successive photo jaunt, daytime or nighttime), honing in on a few principal project themes. One problem is limiting myself to only a few themes, because i keep envisioning new themes. A few working themes at a time is best, i suppose.
Great video, congratulations. I discovered street photography projects a time ago, when the channel started, and it has been a game changer. I would love to see more street projects content.
I truly enjoyed this video, and it is an aspiration for a project that I am getting off the ground now. Thank you for the inspiration, and added confidence to see this through.
Excellent video Brian. Follows on/reinforces nicely from the workshop in London a couple of weeks ago and projects is definitely the direction I'm now going to go. Thank you again.
Thanks Brian you are an inspiration to me i enjoy street photography so much and really can't wait to get back to london where i left of before covid.Projects are going to be at the top of my list to help me improve and focus on my work so this show could not be better timing.Looking forward to your future shows.Thanks again.
I don't know why I haven't found this channel before. I've been wanting to start a project for some time but I haven't decided on what topic. I haven't gone out to take photos for almost 6 months and I think this would be a good way to start. Thank you for all this knowledge you share, greetings from Mexico.
I've been thinking about doing projects to focus my hobby. I've been going out and taking pictures but they seem so random. The idea of putting turning a project into a book or show seems appealing to me. Thank you for talking about projects. Love your videos.
Excellent video Brian, thank you very much for sharing. This has given me a lot to think about with regards to my own photography and how straightforward it could be to elevate. I also think this approach could be worked successfully with almost any genre of photography, not necessarily just specific to street 👍
Thank you Brian, I'm more interested street photography and practicing it with lights compositions, Its really sounds great to turn them on project. But here is the case i've found difficulty to find turning them into projects. Well let me brief there is famous street having historical influence but its not as it was before demolishing day by day and the people there. love from Gwadar.
Great video! Would love to hear you talk more about motivation for street photography - i.e. “Why” street photography. You touched on it here briefly with the example of the ambulance paramedic, as well as in other videos. Thanks again for the great content
Absolutely the best channel for street photography I’ve come across!! I’m new to photography and your suggestions and ideas has help me with my composition. I can’t thank you enough for all that you do in this community. I could only imagine taking one of your in person classes. I’m in America, so if you ever have a class here, I’ll be there!! Thank you again and keep them coming
I've been shooting in the street for some years now. I often go to public markets shooting children in the street. (street children). It is basically shrouded by poverty but I make it a point to caoture their smiles and forget about the poverty where they live in. Listen to your videos makes me more excited to shoot out in the street. Thank you so much I'm Dodos Dela Cruz and I'm from a 3rd world country...the Philippines.
One way of getting into this mindset is to post mini projects on Instagram with each row of three images relating to each other in some way. If i have have two photos already that go together, then i will be out looking for a third one to complete the set before posting any of them.
Nice idea, Stephanie - it's great to hear how others do these things :-)
love that. so simple but at the same time anything but
In exploring RUclips’s photography offerings, I came upon your channel. It is one of the most inspiring, most informative and most useful sites I have come across. Going through your “portfolio” of past episodes keeps providing me with bits of guidance that help me in my photographic efforts and I look forward eagerly for your next postings. Thank you.
That's really kind - thanks JR and good luck with your street photography :-)
Thank you. Street photography is a phobia for me. Now after watching several of your videos, I am going out and getting into it.
Great - good luck with it!
I found the part "where do we get the ideas" very interesting. I study Sociology and your explanation reminded me very much of the process of "qualitative/unstandardized content analysis". Another Buzzword for the Method might be "Grounded Theory". There aswell you have a question and start examining the material very closely and try to label every bit of a sentence until patterns start emerging. this sounds really subjective but to put the objectivness in there you repeat the process every time a new category forms until you could sort any new text to your categories.
I can really see how photography could be used for that as a scientific project. when doing street photography the photographer is also in a mindset close to a social scientist. the question might be "how do people interact on the place xy with the rental bikes the city gives them access to". If you do your project long enough you probably could form categries aswell. I think Bourdieu also did street photography for his main book, i have to look into how he made the pictures. Super super interesting and inspiring video!! Thank you very much!
Thank you! I already lost fun of street because of Instagram.
Now I don’t focus on insta, I will focus on project and Prints
Great - good luck with your street photography :-)
I came across this channel by simply going through youtube videos about photography, street photography, tips, tricks, etc etc, i watch your videos with great interest, there's so much information you give out to people for free, that's amazing! Listening to you talking about art of photography with such an ease and passion is some kind of hearthwarming and it makes me want to just go out and start shooting pictures! I've been interested in photography for a loong time, finally after many years i've finally managed to buy myself a proper camera. During this summer i'll spend countless hours out there in the streets to capture those precious moments of peoples lives. Thank you so much for your work, and keep it up!
Best wishes!
Thank you, Michal, for such lovely feedback. Good luck with your street photography - it's a great journey!
Your Channel is very well done. I worked as a professional photographer for 40 years until I retired this last year. I've enjoyed street photography and nature photography for years so now I have more time for my passions. You've been a good source of inspiration. I taught adult photography for 15 years and a big part of my program was having students do projects so I stand by what you preach. I'll continue to follow.
Hearing you talk about getting my work taken serious is inspiring. I've watched this video twice now and I'm taking notes to start sketching my first project. I've been shooting streets for around 3-4 years but only for the fun of it and now I want to make a piece of work worthy of a coffee shop wall, as a first goal, so everyone can enjoy it or cirtique it or whatever. thank you for the great content. greetings from mexico.
Tito, that's really good to hear and I wish you well with your project. Please take your time, do lots of planning and don't rush it. Best of luck and greetings from London!
Enjoy your style of delivery. Speaking of style, I can tell you enjoy timepieces as well. Photography and watches, two of my passions.
Thank you! Yes, I love my watches though I tend to avoid the big brands ;-)
One added bonus to projects I found is that it gets you actively looking. One could even say actively seeing. I watched this video about a year ago when I was brand new to street photography and noticed when I started looking for something in particular I started to see other images that I would have normally missed by being overwhelmed with possibilities. I’m still new to street photography but find your input extremely helpful and valuable. Thank you.
Tried my first night street photography literally last night and had 2 themes(projects) in mind before even heading out, an Elvis exhibition has just started in my town and every shop has something Elvis themed in the window and there's heaps of restaurants and bars on the strip. The other was to then head to the club precinct, that made for some interesting sights and of course cafe's and little eateries packing up as the clubs open became a theme too
I've had the good fortune of discovering your channel on you tube as someone who's new to street photography and eager to learn. I truly appreciate your obvious expertise, your welcoming energy and your teachings. Thank you. I've been listening to a number of your videos over the past few days and am very grateful to have discovered you. Thank you again.
Great great great. Simple, effective, informative, inspiring and to the point , putting street photography to centre of the message unlike other channels where the narcissistic ego of the photographer is predominant. Thanks.
That’s very kind feedback. Thank you :-)
Very inspirational.. now my mind cannot stop thinking when will i start my “project” in street photography..
Brian, thanks for all these helpful advice. it's very true that this channel is 100% street and nothing else. I'm waiting the next one soon, greetings from Greece!
Thanks very much Sakis - and greetings to you from London!
As an accidental street photographer (ie I one day found an increasing ratio of my photos are in this sub-genre), I have already set myself several projects (In/Out; Doors To Nowhere; People Outside Pubs) and find it a useful way to keep busy out there, to keep on snapping, and to summon-up new-to-me ideas.
Happy accidents are a bonus and a blessing.
Thanks for this video, Brian. I am Italian and I am an amateur street photographer. I really love your work: your images are able to tell me stories and they are very inspiring. I will try to find out some ideas for making projects. Thanks again Brian.
Cia Alessio e grazie per i complimenti ! I hope you find some good project ideas and wish you the best of luck!
In comparison to even little known street shooters I'm just scratching the surface of what it means to somewhat better of my own photography and it's overall view has been created for my likings to photography in general which has developed, as far as my photography is concerned, through extensive acquiring of whatever came ready at my hand like many wonderful books about from how to take pictures of impact to technicalities and pits and falls those worsen pictures and obviously the many people who are well known in photographing portraits, landscape, architecture, travel, sports, wildlife, and life on streets, generously, like you, gave the know how of their experiences through videos and they enriched me in every way not to say about even the person I'm today and my pictures, I believe, are the reflections of my person! I've learnt that what it takes to make a single successful picture and how much time it requires to get it exact finally in a print! Don't you see this successful single picture as a project for the photographer?! I'm not saying that this photographer made a fortune from a single photograph because this is what he did for all his landscape shots; imagine the dedication and toil and time he spends with undivided interest to what he is known for! I'm overwhelmed by your work on streets and your advice is so great and I'm looking forward to more from you in this regard! But I'm still not confined to only streets but I can say I'm most attracted to streets and then obviously the more fleetingly challenging wildlife and sports but the these are hindered the many ways I encountered in the days when I just started my first hearing of shutter fall, maybe many are replaced by new ones, but they are the stumbling blocks for my progress and it's a subject of real discussion but then again you have the undivided passion to take pictures and it's really seated inside your making photographs that couldn't be altered by any means; I really breathe it; I literally wear camera, a good one and an improved one, a better one which I can afford at a point of time to suit my needs!
Despite having both your books, I've yet to work on a project (sorry Brian!), but when you showed Mark Cohen's project it suddenly resonated with me. That's something I'd like to do, I'd enjoy doing as a project and might end up quite an interesting challenge. I realised a little while ago - and you make this point in the video - that shooting for a project does not preclude you from taking advantage of any seredipitous moments you come across.
I've booked some trips to London for when the travel restrictions are due to be removed (I hope their removal isn't postponed) so I'll be doing just that - working on a project and binging on any nice moments that come my way.
I know that whenever you buy a new car you immediately see that same model everywhere. I think working projects is the same - it primes the brain to notice the thing that you're thinking of. That must, in itself, mean you end up more likely to see potential keepers simply because your brain is tuned in.
Great comments. I hope you do that project! I can feel the world slowly opening up again so hopefully your trips to London won't be too far away now :-)
Ordered your 52 assignments street photography book yesterday and then this video showed up in my RUclips feed. Enjoyed the video and looking forward to going through the book.
I always talk about start "projects" but don't. Thank you for this nudge and i can't wait to see some of my street images in print.
We all need a nudge sometimes Linda - I hope this one works for you!
i appreciate your videos on photography, you are an encyclopedia of knowledge to any new photographer. understanding failure is over 90% of photography put in to perspective to never give up and do what you can to get your photos out there. I save videos like these for reference of what not to lose track of. thank you for giving these artists a tutorial on increasing the chances of success. You are well respected for what you bring to us amatuers and pros alike.
Thank you. I had watched your 1st video on this subject and re-visited this one with some curiosity, not least because your first video had sparked / inspired some considerable thought on my behalf... You added a clear and very insightful tip in this one (re publishing your work, either one by one or collectively) and I found that invaluable - and brilliantly timed, as I'm currently locked down (outside UK) but busily planning various projects. You've potentially saved me from a grave error in execution, thank you again.
Thanks Cat - that's great to hear. Best of luck with your projects - this is a great time to plan and fill in the gaps.
It is greatly fascinating going through old images and find gems that grow to beautiful projects! I found some old light-painting shots from ten years ago and that restarted a huge “machine” in me. Im almost done with a new project book now! Its wonderful to see that im not the only one with this experience ☺️
That's great to hear, Niko. Good luck with your projects :-)
Great lesson! After 5 years on rthe streets I need to focus on a big project. Thanks Brian
Thanks Luis! I look forward to hearing about your project ;-)
That was usefull for me thanks
Great - thanks for the feedback :-)
Hi Brian, Greetings from the Philippines. I enjoyed another great video and great ideas. Thanks for that! I really agree with your idea of working in projects and I have a feeling that when I have some projects in the back of my mind, I tend to see more. Maybe it is a form of cognitive bias, you only see it when you know what to look for. I think it added some depth to my street photography. Your video strengthened that believe. Especially in a time where I can still can not go as much as I want due to COVID. One small addition to your ideas of what to do with your projects, I have the experience that many magazines are always looking for copy and I have recently I had some visual stories (as I call my small photo projects with 3-4 paragraphs of text) published in a university magazine and some online. I can imagine that also other magazines, non photography, but that have a connection with the theme of your project could be interested. My two cents. Thanks again and take care, Ubo
Thanks Ubo, and greetings from London! I like your idea of cognitive bias - that's an interesting way of articulating it. And I like your magazine suggestion - thanks for sharing it :-)
Got your book " 52 assignments " today. So many Tips... great love it ❤👍. Dirk, Stuttgart
just recently got the hang of projects. I'm an art student at University, and we always have to do projects; I just never realized to actually use my learned knowledge for my personal stuff. I have one project called "Making lines for..." and it's fun hah; and I just finished a very small project for university, which turned out so much better than all the work I did in the past. So I 100% agree; projects are underrated and I want to do more of them in the future!
Thanks! Projects are all part of the learning process for students but unfortunately many leave them behind when they leave university ;-)
Fingers crossed for the Manchester Workshop in May. Another inspiring video Brian.
Thanks Morris! It looks like we'll be fine for Manchester - here's hoping . . . !
Great advice. Once I started to watch your video I quickly understood the huge value of projects (as a missing link in my work). Thank you for this inspiring contribution.
Thanks great to hear, Harald - I hope you can make projects work for you :-)
Well done you. From the heart.
Thanks very much, Paul!
I agree when you have a project in mind, you are more motivated to work hard and also have good time. For me, I'm inspired and study the masters then try to do my own way and approach.
I think that's a good approach, Bruce :-)
The idea of creating a project is interesting, I'm just a hobbyist currently, but shooting a lot of thing randomly just getting not fun some times now, need some topic to focus on. Thank you for the video.
My most recent approach to Street Photography as well as Travel Documentation has been to create a photo essay to show the best of the day(s) observations of events, places people and things. It gives me a chance to interpose some titles, brief comments and connect the images to the theme of the shoot. After a recess due to health, I'm going back to the street just in time for our Nevada rainy and snowy winter.
The idea of projects has been nagging my brain for awhile now. I have a few ongoing projects in my head but I agree with you about jotting them down, putting them in writing in a notebook and then following through and thus creating a more clear focus and actually finishing them. I think you have given me the much needed push on the idea of projects. Thanks!
Thanks John. Yes, I find that I can really flesh out an idea once it's on paper and I find I'm forever changing it and adding new bits. It's an interesting exercise in itself :-)
I came to one of your workshops a few weeks ago and just got round to watching this video. I found the video excellent and inspiring. Thanks.
Good day, Brian. This is an absolutely fantastic video and your channel is a great resource. Thank you!
That's so kind - thank you! :-)
Would love a vid on “getting you’re images out there”. Love the talks!
Big Thanks for your kindness words about Street photography love ❤️
Thank you for some great advice Brian. 👍
My pleasure, David - thanks for your support :-)
Great video, thanks Brian. Really made the importance of projects finally click for me
That's great to hear, David, thank you :-)
than you for your videos - someone who I genuine and not just making obvious plugs - really enjoying
Thanks a lot. Your advice is really very useful to me. Not everyone has the ability to naturally and easily transmit their knowledge and experiences so that they are useful to others, with clear and precise language. You do it very well and in a very pleasant way. Thanks.
Very kind of you to say so - thank you Neftali :-)
Very good Brian and I like your approach to projects and how you share your thoughts around them.
Thanks very much, Andrew - glad it hit the spot :-)
Your videos are always so helpful and informative. Thank you.
Many thanks Robert :-)
Thanks for another interesting video Brian. You’re spot on about projects. I found when I first got into street photography I was fuelled by the novelty alone. But after a while it can start to feel directionless. I did what you suggest in this video and went through my work to find themes that had emerged subconsciously. By separating them out into ‘projects’ I achieved two things - I felt a sense of achievement in the body of work I’d shot so far and I gave myself specific themes to build on in the future. It was a real turning point in my approach and I think it improved my photography, or certainly my approach to it.
Thanks very much for the feedback, Chris. Did you spot your zine in the video?!
Thank you for helping me decide how to continue projects related to street photography. Hugs from Brazil.
Hi Brian I love your view as to photography helping people with mental health issues, Which is the reason I love photography in the first place, it as helped me out over the years many many times. I was interested in what you said about photographs I have taken in the past and maybe putting them into a project of some sort. in the last few years I've been working in black and white mainly I shoot in colour and transform them in Lightroom normally raw files. I like street photography but I'm not able to walk around so much these days due to health problems, I tend to hang out around bars cafes sitting watching people interact every so often some one or a group come along and I end up photographing them I might only shoot very few pictures but I normally get good results. I have a lot of pictures like these and you have got me to thinking maybe I should do something with them a project no less is forming in my minds eye, so thank you for your advise Brian I enjoy your videos and will continue to follow you thanks Tony
I am a beginner and hobbyist photographer. This video was very useful for me. Thank you
Very useful, thank you.
My pleasure, Enrique, thanks for watching!
Really like your approach of project mindset, great advices, thanks so much Brian👍🙏
thx for the Video. Bought your Book "52Assignments Street Photography" and worked with the thema in a city of Cologne in Germany. Man it was so much fun. Like u said it helps a lot. Helped me to be focused, to be cruise and to be satisfied by the end of the day. There is no boring times only boring people 😉! THX. I like your book very much!
Thanks very much Alexander! Good luck with your street photography and I hope you stay motivated!
Great and very inspiring video. Thank you.
My pleasure, Jari, thanks for the feedback :-)
This was fantastic. Thanks so much StreetSnappers
Many thanks Brian, very thought provoking and very well communicated. I have bought your book 52 “assignments” which is very stimulating and I have produced a few photo books , purely for my own enjoyment and posterity,
…But thinking back they are a bit random in nature. Your talk today has given me a more specific idea…I had a great mental image of your guy’s special wall with 9 images on a project theme…Which has sown an idea in my mind.. I am going to work on a book with perhaps nine uniform images per page or a uniform size and format that works for me, but I like the idea of uniformity of shape and size and each page or spread will have a very specific project theme. So a big thankyou for getting some creativity going in these rather monotonous lock down times!
That's great, Jeff! But do make sure you do it - it's all to easy to let these ideas slip ;-)
Bought your street photography book. Brilliant. Thankyou.
Thank you so much! I can really see how transformative this approach has to be. Feeling so enthusiastic and grateful.
Exactly what I am thinking for sometime now and it is good to hear it. Thank you ! Great Talk !
I discovered this channel yesterday and wow! such high quality tips! Thank you Brian!
My pleasure - thanks very much for your feedback :-)
Great video Brian it really helps to focus on my street photography
Thanks Bryan - hope you get stuck into some projects!
Awesome.
Thanks George!
Thank you for great speach on street photography projects. May be it could be a good idea to prepare a movie about books which every street photographer should have in a library, it would be very useful !
Thanks for the updated tutorial on 'street photography projects' (although i think your original take was almost as good). You've inspired me to be deliberate and begin some serious street photography projects, in my home city of Vancouver, Canada (which has quite a different look than London). Zines are a great idea as an end project, but I've got to hit the streets first!
Thanks for the feedback, Murray - just get out and do it! No excuses!!
@@StreetSnappers Indeed. No excuses! I'm making progress (with each successive photo jaunt, daytime or nighttime), honing in on a few principal project themes. One problem is limiting myself to only a few themes, because i keep envisioning new themes. A few working themes at a time is best, i suppose.
You inspired me, Brian. While watching your video, I wrote down two ideas for new projects.
That's great to hear - thank you Peter :-)
Once again, I find your content to be informative and rejuvenating. Thank you for the inspiration.
Great video, congratulations. I discovered street photography projects a time ago, when the channel started, and it has been a game changer. I would love to see more street projects content.
Thanks very much for the feedback, Francisco :-) I will try to do another video on projects soon.
I truly enjoyed this video, and it is an aspiration for a project that I am getting off the ground now. Thank you for the inspiration, and added confidence to see this through.
Excellent video Brian. Follows on/reinforces nicely from the workshop in London a couple of weeks ago and projects is definitely the direction I'm now going to go. Thank you again.
I discovered projects last year and have found the concept invaluable. Excellent episode Brian - it's expanded my awareness in many useful ways.
Thank you for the inspiration. It also works in Germany. A grateful amateur from there.
Thanks for the feedback, Martin, and greetings from London!
Very helpful thank you for sharing your knowledge
Thanks Brian you are an inspiration to me i enjoy street photography so much and really can't wait to get back to london where i left of before covid.Projects are going to be at the top of my list to help me improve and focus on my work so this show could not be better timing.Looking forward to your future shows.Thanks again.
Thanks so much, Darrjn - and good luck with starting some projects :-)
I don't know why I haven't found this channel before. I've been wanting to start a project for some time but I haven't decided on what topic. I haven't gone out to take photos for almost 6 months and I think this would be a good way to start. Thank you for all this knowledge you share, greetings from Mexico.
thank you so much. you inspire me to come back to the project that I started some time ago and did not finish.
Great to hear! Good luck with your street photography :-)
Another cracking video 👏🏻Love how concise and methodical you explain this for viewers. Great to see this update 👍🏻
Top man - thank you!
I've been thinking about doing projects to focus my hobby. I've been going out and taking pictures but they seem so random. The idea of putting turning a project into a book or show seems appealing to me. Thank you for talking about projects. Love your videos.
Thanks Brian - very thought provoking
Love your channel thanks so much !
My pleasure Graham - thanks for tuning in :-)
Thanks a lot for your advices. The passion and wisdom it emanetes from you when talking about street photography just motivates me more. Salut!
Love your videos, helping me out no end. Please keep making
Hi Brian, I love your channel. Keep up the great work. Chears from France!
Thanks very much!
Excellent video Brian, thank you very much for sharing. This has given me a lot to think about with regards to my own photography and how straightforward it could be to elevate. I also think this approach could be worked successfully with almost any genre of photography, not necessarily just specific to street 👍
Thanks John. Yes, I agree and I think projects are good discipline for all photographers.
That was incredibly useful. Thank you.
I love your videos. Great wisdom. Just what I needed. Embarking on my next project.
Fantastic Brian. So true. I follow your advice.
Sounds logic. 👍
Thank you Brian,
I'm more interested street photography and practicing it with lights compositions, Its really sounds great to turn them on project. But here is the case i've found difficulty to find turning them into projects.
Well let me brief there is famous street having historical influence but its not as it was before demolishing day by day and the people there.
love from Gwadar.
Sounds like a good idea for a project - best of luck!
Great video! Would love to hear you talk more about motivation for street photography - i.e. “Why” street photography. You touched on it here briefly with the example of the ambulance paramedic, as well as in other videos. Thanks again for the great content
Thanks for the feedback, James. Great idea about motivation - I’ll give it some thought for a future video :-)
Sir, all your videos are really helpful and very pleasing. I enjoy it very much, while lerning as well… Thank you for your effort… God bless you…
really great topic to come back to again.
will definetly have to watch this again in the future as well when Im ready to do more serious projects.
Hope you can make projects work for you :-)
@@StreetSnappers thank you :)
Thank you! Your content is immensely insightful.
This is a brilliant video and just what I needed to see right now
Thanks
Absolutely the best channel for street photography I’ve come across!! I’m new to photography and your suggestions and ideas has help me with my composition. I can’t thank you enough for all that you do in this community. I could only imagine taking one of your in person classes. I’m in America, so if you ever have a class here, I’ll be there!! Thank you again and keep them coming
Insightful. Thanks Brian
My pleasure Patrick :-)
Appreciate your words of wisdom😊
It's refreshing to hear your thoughts without trying to push a product or brand.
Thanks very much, Matthew. I do try to leave the commercial stuff aside (whenever I see the ubiquitous Squarespace plug I usually hit delete!).
@@StreetSnappers
Yes I know what you mean about Squarespace. It comes across as such a sell-out lol.
Those ideas for projects and publishing are just what I needed, thank you.
Great - best of luck Martin. As my old boss used to say, JBDI !!
Inspiring stuff!
Thanks very much!
I've been shooting in the street for some years now. I often go to public markets shooting children in the street. (street children). It is basically shrouded by poverty but I make it a point to caoture their smiles and forget about the poverty where they live in. Listen to your videos makes me more excited to shoot out in the street. Thank you so much I'm Dodos Dela Cruz and I'm from a 3rd world country...the Philippines.
Thank you so much for this video, it has inspired me to now think about doing a project of my own.
Another really useful video Brian. Many thanks for making and sharing them. You have left me thinking and hopefully acting on this project thing!
Thanks Jonathan - I hope you'll get stuck into some projects :-)