Street Photography Tutorial: Context!

By On May 17, 2011 · 2 Comments

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I like this photo a lot. It was taken a couple years ago outside of a McDonalds near where I was teaching at the time. What I like most about this [...]

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Street Photography Tutorial: Expressions

By On April 19, 2011 · 4 Comments

Street photography is all about the decisive moment, but the decisive moment isn’t all about movement. Most street photographs tend to center around moments in movement because movement surrounds us all the time and it is rarely hidden. It is easy to catch if you have your timing down. On the other hand, natural expressions [...]

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Street-Shooting Subways Tutorial

By On March 8, 2011 · 5 Comments

I absolutely adore metrorail systems. Perhaps it’s because I’m a born-and-raised Los Angelino and never rode a light rail until I was an adult and had moved to a different city. The last time I visited LA I did notice that they did have a couple rail lines running. I hear they are as ‘good’ [...]

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Shooting Street at Night

By On November 1, 2010 · 5 Comments

As can be easily gleaned from my deviantArt gallery, 99% of my street photography is taken outdoors in broad daylight. The benefits to this are obvious: fast shutter speeds for exact moment-catching, smaller f-stops to get more of the environment in focus, lower EIs for more definition, and so on. Taking photos, especially street shots, [...]

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Street Photo Tip: Stick With an Interesting Subject

By On August 16, 2010 · 2 Comments

We see them a lot on the street, don’t we? Interesting subjects. Not just interesting subjects, but a continuing series of interesting moments and interactions between those interesting subjects. Normally, we take a quick photo, perhaps pausing a bit to get the right moment, and move on. How often do we stick with a particular [...]

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An Exercise in Composition

By On August 13, 2010 · 3 Comments

We left Taipei by train at 7AM, arriving at the Hualien station at 10:00 and the Farglory hotel 30 minutes later. Once at the hotel, we discovered that we couldn’t check-in until after 3PM. My wife, her sister, and the kids unanimously decided to leave the bags with me and hop the next shuttle bus [...]

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