{"id":30841,"date":"2016-09-20T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T19:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=30841"},"modified":"2016-09-25T05:37:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T12:37:38","slug":"what-are-the-best-technical-settings-for-street-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/20\/what-are-the-best-technical-settings-for-street-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are the Best Technical Settings for Street Photography?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Are the Best Technical Settings for Street Photography?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/12odramj3tw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What are the best technical settings for street photography? Should you shoot fully-manual? Should you use &#8220;P&#8221; (program) mode? Should you zone focus?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There is no &#8220;best&#8221; settings in street photography&#8211;just use what best works for you. For me, that means shooting in &#8220;P&#8221; (program) mode where my camera automatically chooses the aperture and shutter speed. I keep my ISO 1600-3200 (for a fast shutter speed), center-point autofocus, and I focus on composition, overcoming my fears, and interacting with others when shooting.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about technical settings, read the articles below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/18\/in-favor-of-p-program-mode-in-photography\/\" target=\"_blank\">In Favor of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153P\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Program mode) in Photography<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/05\/an-introduction-to-zone-focusing-or-hyperfocal-focusing-for-your-leica-rangefinder-or-dslr\/\" target=\"_blank\">An Introduction to Zone Focusing for your Leica, Rangefinder, or DSLR<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/the-ultimate-beginners-guide-for-cameras-in-street-photography\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Ultimate Beginner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Guide for Cameras in Street Photography<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the best technical settings for street photography? Should you shoot fully-manual? Should you use &#8220;P&#8221; (program) mode? Should you zone focus?<\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30841","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\/30841","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=30841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}