A technique to use in street photography: get close to your subject, keep clicking (until your subject notices you).
YouTube Video: Street Photography Technique: Keep Shooting Until Your Subject Notices You + Golden Angle Composition
Why keep shooting until your subject notices you?
The purpose of this technique is that sometimes you’re not sure whether a candid photograph or a photograph of your subject noticing you will be better.
Therefore my suggestion is this:
When you identify an interesting potential street photography scene, keep clicking, getting closer, and “working the scene” from different angles, distances, and perspectives. Then when your subject notices you, say hello, wave at them, keep clicking, smile, and tell them why you are photographing them.
Some more example photos below:
This is another interesting photograph once the woman noticed me:
Here you see the Golden Angle Composition (also known as Golden Triangle/Golden Rectangle):
Street Photography Techniques
You can learn more street photography techniques here, or the links below:
- ERIC KIM Street Photography Tips and Technique
- The 360 Degree Technique in Street Photography
- How to Work the Scene in Street Photography
- How to Shoot Layers and the Bookend Technique in Street Photography
- Street Photography Technique: GET CLOSE & FILL THE FRAME + GOLDEN DIAGONAL COMPOSITION
- Street Photography Techniques: The 3D Scan/360 Degree Technique (Shooting Head-on) and Holding Your Camera High in the Air and Point Downwards (and Use Your LCD Screen to Frame the Scene)
- The Walking Alongside Someone and Shooting Until They Notice You Street Photography Technique
- SUPER INNOVATIVE NEW GOPRO STREET PHOTOGRAPHY POV EXPERIENCE: Cutoff Technique, Shooting Head-on with Flash, and Slow-Motion on RICOH GR II at 28mm
- How to Shoot a Street Portrait: Tips, Technique, and GoPRO POV Tutorial
- Street Photography Technique/Composition: Leading Lines and Crouching Down Low
- How to Shoot Layers in Street Photography: GoPRO POV Video Composition Tutorial
- How to Shoot Street Photography with a 24mm Lens
- The Cutoff Technique in Street Photography
- THE CUTOFF TECHNIQUE IN STREET PHOTOGRAPHY: GOPRO POV KYOTO ERIC KIM
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For distilled lessons on composition, read the free ebook: “The Street Photography Composition Manual.”
Further articles to improve your compositions in photography:
- Composition Lesson #1: Triangles
- Composition Lesson #2: Figure-to-ground
- Composition Lesson #3: Diagonals
- Composition Lesson #4: Leading Lines
- Composition Lesson #5: Depth
- Composition Lesson #6: Framing
- Composition Lesson #7: Perspective
- Composition Lesson #8: Curves
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- Street Photography Composition 101
- The Theory of Composition in Street Photography: 7 Lessons from Henri Cartier-Bresson
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