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Learn to train your eye and improve your timing in order to capture the decisive moment!
Whether its due to social media or the introduction of great rangefinder-style digital cameras over a decade ago, street photography has experienced a remarkable resurgence in recent years. You can be roaming the streets of a classic urban environment (New York, Paris, Tokyo) or on a simple photo walk around a quiet neighborhoodit has never been more popular to pursue the art of capturing those candid, fleeting moments that happen throughout the day, of freezing a moment in time and transforming the ordinary into an extraordinary photograph.
But learning to see light and moment, to make quick decisions, and to nail a photographic composition are all crucial skills you must master in order to become a good street photographer. Photographer, instructor, and author Valerie Jardin has been teaching photographers how to take better photographs for years, and in Street Photography Assignments: 75 Reasons to Hit the Streets and Learn, she provides dozens of prompts for you to practice in order to refine and improve your craft.
These activities focus on themes such as:
Street portraits
Gesture
Shadows
Silhouettes
Rim light
Humor
Abstract
Tension
Motion
Reflections
Leading lines
Creative framing
Juxtapositions
Double exposures
And much, much more!
Each assignment includes a description of the technique, various tips and tricks to practice, technical and compositional considerations, and an example photo that Jardin has captured when practicing the same exercise. Whether you have 30 minutes or 3 hours, each assignment is an opportunity for you to take your camera and hit the streets. No more excuses!
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75 Reasons to Hit the Streets and Learn
Valrie Jardin
Street Photography Assignments: 75 Reasons to Hit the Streets and Learn
Valrie Jardin
www.valeriejardinphotography.com
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ISBN: 978-1-68198-679-1
1st Edition (1st printing, December 2020)
2021 Valrie Jardin
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To the hundreds of students Ive had the privilege to mentor on the streets of the world since 2012, and to those who will join me on new adventures. Thank you for accompanying me on this amazing journey. There is nothing I would rather be doing than sharing my vision and my passion with all of you.
Valrie Jardin is a French photographer, currently residing in the United States. Valrie is known internationally through her workshops. When she is not teaching others the art of street photography and visual storytelling, Valrie is a prolific author, a speaker, and a podcast producer of the bi-weekly show Hit The Streets with Valrie Jardin. She is also an official Fujifilm X-Photographer. Valrie is a gear minimalist. She believes in the power of limitations of one camera, one lens and making decisions before you press the shutter to get the shot in camera with as little post-processing as possible. She lives and breathes in pixels.
Welcome to the exciting world of street photography! When I decided to write this book, my original idea was that it could be used like a deck of flash cards: Pick a card and go out with your camera. This gives you 75 days of photo adventures, 75 reasons to go out, and 75 ways to learn and have fun.
If this genre of photography is new to you, then you may want to start with the first assignment and work your way through them from there. If youve been doing this for a while, Id recommend you close your eyes and choose a page at random. These exercises are meant to be fun. No boring technical mumbo jumbo hereyou can get plenty of that in other photography books.
It is important that you keep in mind that, regardless of the camera you use, it has no vision. The success of the photograph is 100 percent up to you and you alone. Thus, making decisions before you press the shutter is very important. Taking control of your gear is the key to a successful photograph, but the technical part of photography is also the easiest part. Vision is what differentiates the storyteller from the average photographer.
Each assignment in this book includes some examples from my own collection. These are meant to help illustrate a technique or a notion I describe. I encourage you to find your own way of seeing. Remember that if you go out with someone elses photograph in the back of your mind, it remains just that: Someone elses photograph. The goal is to give you the tools to think outside the box and find your own vision. Forget about perfection. Street photography is so much more than that: Its an emotion. When it comes down to it, there is only one person you need to please with your photography, and that is you. You have the privilege to shoot for yourself, not for a client, not for the social media likes. It doesnt get much better than that!
From photographing street performers to playing with light or shooting at night, the resulting photograph is all about the decisions you make. These could include making images color or black and white, paying attention to gestures, finding humor, looking for juxtapositions, interconnections among subjects, reflections, and so forth. The exercises in this book follow a natural progression, and the last few will invite you to apply all the learning from the earlier exercises and take you on a theme adventure.
I hope you put a lot of miles on your most comfortable shoes with Street Photography Assignments: 75 Reasons to Hit the Streets and Learn.
ASSIGNMENT
Hit the streets of any city with the goal of photographing buskersmusicians, dancers, human statues, jugglers, puppeteers, and poets.
TECHNIQUE
This assignment is ideal if you are introverted and the simple notion of photographing strangers on the streets terrifies you. Street performers are there to be seen, and they are easy subjects to photograph. Generally, they are not moving around much and they will most likely not have any objections to you taking your time to photograph them. Just remember that they are performing to make a living, so be generous and tip them before you start shooting.
It is good practice to work with different light situations or to dance around your subject in order to remove distracting elements from your frame. A simple step to the left or to the right may avoid the appearance of something sticking out of your subjects ear, for example. With buskers, you have the luxury of time, which you rarely have in other candid street situations. Its also a great time to take a series of photographs and tell the story with wide, medium, and detail shots. So, for this exercise, be generous and take your time to work it until you get the shot!
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