Author: StreetShooters.ca
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How To Shoot Street Events
Events like parades, festivals and even street protests happen on our local streets all the time. For street photographers they offer opportunities for really creative images. For new photographers these sort of events can be quite intimidating but with a little preparation you shouldn’t be concerned if you take care to be non-threatening and understand…
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Walk The Walk
That’s Bill Smith (center). This image was taken last winter (check the touqe) during one of the monthly walks with the Toronto Film Shooters group. Bill is an interesting guy and one of Toronto’s better photographers and film photography advocates. If you haven’t started following him on social media it’s time to start. Here’s why.…
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Shooting the Park Bench Wino
FaceBook is crammed full of opinionated people who love to dump all of their projections and discomfort and hate with the world on street photographers who shoot what’s called “poverty porn”. A guy who calls himself Suitcase Joe is a LA street photographer who just might change your mind about shooting street people, the less…
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Shoot now, ask questions later
Who is this kid? Daniel Gutierrez is an L.A. street/landscape photographer who is someone you should know if you’re questioning your own photography skills. Daniel is the subject of another wonderful Paulie B “Walkie Talkie” video interview of new young photographers currently shooting amazing images. Daniel’s use of a basic digital camera to create beautifully…
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Shooting In The Real World
Why do we shoot street photography and what is it we do shoot? According to Reuben Radding in the You Tube video entitled “The musicality of Photography in NYC” we shoot because everything we shoot is going away. He has a lot to say about why we shoot street photography. As he says you’ll hear…
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I Need More Equipment
I am sorry but this is too funny and we see it almost daily. Plus it’s a problem I’ve been seeing a lot of on FaceBook especially from people who are about to shoot their first wedding. It comes down to this….it’s not the camera. Now don’t get me wrong and let’s use Nikon equipment…
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What Settings?
New photographers continue ask on FaceBook for info from posters on which camera, what lens and what settings were used to create a published photo. The answer is that information is irrelevant to understanding the photo. I recommend to new photographers that they should take a few lessons in basic photography and then they can…
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Film Speed – ASA
Newcomers to film photography often are confused by the different types of film and especially the different speeds of film. When it comes to speed which is indicated as ASA (ISO when we’re speaking of a digital sensor) the basic rule is the slower the film speed the better the quality of the image. So…
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Sports Photography
I haven’t shot sports in decades so this photo will have to do. It’s one of 1,500 images shot for a local charity during one of their fundraisers. As with a lot of indoor action photography this was shot at a high ISO and a prime fast lens. Pretty sure this was shot with a…
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