ANIMAL

HOW TO
After you have your camera as your tools, you have to make a plan what
you want to shoot. By having a plan, it make your task more easier because it
help your mind to command your eyes to find what your already to capture.
Beside that, you also can look at other peoples photo to get some ideas. When
you already have a plan, which mean you know what equipment you want to
bring. Try to go out as lean as you can be. You probably need one camera and
one lens only. For example, Canon 7D with 50mm 1.8 for candid street photography
would be enough for one day outing.
Sometimes you may just stand or sitting around in the street and look at
people to get an idea, try to blend with surrounding. Beside that, to be a good
street photographer, try to be simple and different ones. Something that can make
people stare at your photos and said “Wow”. You should try to think outside the
box. Try to be creative and different as possible.
One of main factor to get a great impact on your photos is know when the
correct sun light. You will find a very limited source of light around the city
because surrounding by building etc. It’s better you chose the right daytime before
you go out to shoot. My opinion is the best time is on the morning and evening
light because it much softer. Here is some advices what can you get or do on
difference situation and times.
1 Sunny : Everyone like sunny day and they think with a very bright day, we
can get nice and clear picture. But please remember that actually to much light
especially during afternoon, the light is not that suitable to do a street photography
especially if you doing portrait. This is because if too much light and you shoot
direct toward sun, you may shoot silhouettes or shadows. But if you’re going creative,
you can play around with the shadow or silhouettes and sometimes can
creates a strong impact on black and white photos.
2 Raining: Normally you will get less action of people during raining especially
during heavy rain or thunderstorm. But just be prepaid because sometimes
good things will come out during the worst situation. Maybe you need to increase
your ISO to compensate low light and increase the shutter speed to play around
with the rain.
HOW TO
3 Night: A lot of people think that you will find a lot of difficulties shoot on nighttime.
But with new DSLR or compact camera that can increase the ISO without
sacrifice the image quality, I believe we can get a lot of moment. For example
people smoking outside the convenience store. With a great composition and nice
light source, can create good photos. Beside that, having a big aperture lens is
one of the advantage and don’t be lazy to bring your tripod as well. Try not to use
any flash.
Composition
For my opinion, one of the way to make you photo interesting is mastering
your composition. There is no wrong to have a eye level composition and probably
favorite way to compose nowadays. But with having a little bit creative and
difference from others, you photo can be remembered for a lot time. For example
shoot from below or above. We always rushing to capture everything that we saw
on the street without planning the composition and we always shoot from our eye
level only. This will make your photo no different with the others. Try to wait for
good moment, timing and different POV, you can get good photos.
Camera Setting
There are no strict rules about which camera settings should we use for
street photography. It’s very subjective actually because it depend on which Mode
that you comfortable. This is because you need to comfort and believe to yourself
to get nice photo. For beginner, don’t be shy to use Auto Mode. If you’re pretend
that you already pro and use wrong camera setting, and miss the good situation
on the street because wrong setting etc. So just be humble and keep learning
from the pro. If you already master with camera setting, the you can explore and
experimental with the setting such as using slow shutter speed to get the movement
impact or use biggest aperture to get the nice “bokeh” background.
A lot of things we can see at the street. Sometimes it can be memorable and
some of it can be remember for a log time. We are probably the one that captured
those important things around the street. Just keep practices and hoping one day
something big happen just in front of our eye, at the right time and we ready to
capture it.