Dear friend,

I am very excited to share my new book with you: Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Street Photography — your new personal primer to mastering the fundamentals of street photography, conquering your fears, and taking your street photography to the next level.

Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Mastering Street Photography is also unique because not only is it a practical and philosophical guide to street photography, but it is also part photo-book. It contains the best photos from my “Suits” and “Only in America” series, and is a distillation of my 10+ years of experience in street photography.

Why did I write this book?

Why did I write Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Mastering Street Photography when I’ve already written over 3,000 blog posts on street photography and over 20 eBooks on street photography?

For me, it was a chance for me to respire my “beginner’s mind” in street photography– asking myself: “If I started street photography all over again, what advice would I give myself?”

Like all of us, I deal with difficulty staying inspired and motivated in street photography. In writing this book, I was able to “take it back to basics”, and ask myself the fundamental questions:

• Why is street photography so enjoyable?
• What is the best equipment for street photography?
• How do I get closer and more intimate with my subjects, and hesitate less?

Empower Yourself in Street Photography

In Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Mastering Street Photography, I was able to distill all of the lessons to teach you:

1. What is best camera for street photography?
2. Practical tips and guidance how to start shooting street photography
3. Overcoming hesitation and fear to capture “the decisive moment”
4. Confidently interacting and engaging with your subjects
5. Capture authentic moments in the streets, either with or without permission
6. Boldly get closer in street photography to capture the soul of your subject
7. Starting your own street photography project that is personally-meaningful to you
8. Discover your own personal aesthetic and style in street photography
9. Harnessing the power of the flash to make street photographs that pop
10. Never running out of inspiration in street photography

 

If I’m not a beginner street photographer, is this book for me?

If you’re an intermediate-advanced street photographer, and have already mastered the fundamentals of street photography, I think you can still profit from Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Mastering Street Photography.

In Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Mastering Street Photography, we also cover more intermediate-advanced street photography concepts such as:

1. Discovering your own unique style and voice in street photography
2. Staying true and authentic to your own photographic vision
3. Shooting with a flash in street photography
4. Is street photography subjective or objective? Making social commentary through your photos.
5. Building the boldness to engage with your subjects, and to hesitate less
6. Crafting dynamic multi-layered and multi-subject street photographs
7. Misconceptions about “The Decisive Moment”
8. Staying inspired, and staying fresh in street photography
9. Unorthodox techniques and places you can shoot street photography
10. The Cherry on Top: What differentiates a mediocre and great street photograph?

Inspirational Assignments to Push You Outside of Your Comfort Zone

Treat Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Mastering Street Photography as your own personal street photography workshop that can fit in your front pocket.

You can use this book as a quick-tips guide, and as a way to inspire yourself with 12 of the best street photography assignments to hone your skills, in these 37 empowering chapters.

If Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Mastering Street Photography gives you even 1 new idea that inspires, motivates, or empowers you, it is an investment which will continue to pay dividends far into the future.

Freedom and Flexibility of Open Source: This Book Belongs to You You

Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Mastering Street Photography is non-DRM (Digital Rights Management) which means when you purchase the book, you will get:

• Beautifully-formatted and edited PDF
• Design-centric fixed-format .EPUB ebook format
• Reflowable and flexible .MOBI ebook format ideal for Kindle

You have the freedom to copy the book and transfer it to as many devices as you desire, with no limit.

Also, you are more than free to share the book with friends, family, or loved ones. Once you purchase the book, you own it, and you can remix it, share it, or distribute/store it however you desire.

Become the Best Street Photographer You Can Be

Ultimately street photography is up to you. You decide how to shoot street photography for yourself, what style suits you, and what your own artistic vision is in street photography.

Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Mastering Street Photography will be a guide, and give you practical tips and suggestions to point you in the right direction.

Don’t miss your opportunity to gain all of the practical wisdom, knowledge, and information to take your street photography to the next level.

BE BOLD,
ERIC & CINDY
Lisbon, 2018

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Table of Contents

The Joy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Start Shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Authenticity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Fear. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Assignment 1: 10 No Challenge . . . . . 10
Assignment 2: Shoot Yourself . . . . . . 12
Assignment 3: Admit Your Fears . . . . . 14
Engage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Assignment 4: Work the Scene . . . . . 18
Get Close . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Assignment 5: Diagonal . . . . . . . . 32
Always Be Prepared . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Assignment 6: Take your camera for a walk 36
Aesthetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Set it and Forget It! . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Surrealism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Assignment 7: Don’t make eye contact . . 58
Tell Lies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Work the Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Assignment 8: Shoot 25% More . . . . . 64
Assignment 9: Overlay . . . . . . . . 66
Forbidden Places . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Assignment 10: Elevator . . . . . . . . 70
Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Mystery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Juxtaposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Hands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Emotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Dynamic Composition . . . . . . . . . . 92
The Cherry on Top . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Assignment 11: Love . . . . . . . . . 96
Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Dramatic Light . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Social Commentary . . . . . . . . . . 108
Urban Landscape . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Decisive Moments . . . . . . . . . . .130
Eyes Are the Windows to the Soul . . . . .132
Assignment 12: Eye Contact. . . . . . .134
Lenses & Focal Length . . . . . . . . . .136
Blur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
Don’t Chimp . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
LCD vs Viewfinder . . . . . . . . . . 142
Editing (Select) Your Best Photos. . . . . 144
Post-Processing . . . . . . . . . . . 146
How to Stay Inspired . . . . . . . . . 148
Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150
Learn More . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152

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File Formats

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY MOBILE comes in three formats:

• PDF
• EPUB for all devices
• MOBI for Kindle

Note that the files are very large file downloads and will take some time and faster wifi connection to download. If you have problems with the download link, try opening the link in a different browser.

To import the MOBI file into your kindle account, attach the file to an e-mail addressed to your “send to Kindle” e-mail. Or for Android and Kindle devices, you can directly plug in your device to your computer and drag the .mobi ULTIMATE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO MASTERING STREET PHOTOGRAPHY file to the folder ‘Kindle.’ For more information, read instructions here.

If you have any questions or issues, please contact Cindy at hapticindustries@gmail.com

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