{"id":29774,"date":"2016-08-03T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=29774"},"modified":"2016-08-03T16:42:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T23:42:44","slug":"how-to-direct-your-subject-for-a-street-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/03\/how-to-direct-your-subject-for-a-street-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Direct Your Subject for a Street Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n3eWaKeQC-Q\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this video, you can see how I interact with my subject and direct them for a street portrait. You can see how I asked my subject to stand behind a clean background, how I started further, and then started to frame closer. I also tried to get my subject to be more interactive by playing with her hair, and throwing it back and forth. Shot in macro mode with a flash in &#8220;P&#8221; mode on the <a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/20\/review-of-the-ricoh-gr-ii-for-street-photography\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ricoh GR II<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to learn more how to shoot street portraits, check out my free book: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/04\/free-book-the-street-portrait-manual\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Street Portrait Manual<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shot in Downtown LA by Todd Hatakeyama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, you can see how I interact with my subject and direct them for a street portrait. You can see how I asked my subject to stand behind a clean background, how I started further, and then started to frame closer. I also tried to get my subject to be more interactive by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}