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Street Photography for dummies
What do we need to shoot a Street picture?
1. A camera
Whatever kind of a camera is good. Either it is a ridiculously expensive rangefinder or an unbelievably cheap point and shoot compact. Either it shoots digital or it shoots film. Either it weighs a ton or it weighs few grams. ANY camera is fine as long as you have it with you.
2. A public place
This can be out in the streets or at the beach or inside a hotel's lounge or in a diner place or inside a supermarket or a mall or a school or whatever PUBLIC place. This public place must be visible in our picture. And things must be happening in this public place.
3. People
Exactly, people! We need people in candid situations. Definition of "candid" from Merriam-Webster's online dictionary: "subjects acting naturally or spontaneously without being posed" Definition of "candid" from Wikipedia: Candid photography is best described as un-
Friday night Specials v1.2
If you like what you see, :+favlove: this article
so it can reach as many deviants as possible.
A weekly selection amongst the images I liked, while browsing the Street Gallery
 and I think they deserve more attention. 
Enjoy them, comment on them and remember to visit the photographers' galleries as well.





Have a nice weekend
Friday night Specials v1.3
If you like what you see, this article
so it can reach as many deviants as possible.
A weekly selection amongst the images I liked, while browsing the Street Gallery
 and I think they deserve more attention. 
Enjoy them, comment on them and remember to visit the photographers' galleries as well.






Have a nice weekend.
Friday night Specials v1.4
If you like what you see, this article
so it can reach as many deviants as possible.
A weekly selection amongst the images I liked, while browsing the Street Gallery
 and I think they deserve more attention. 
Enjoy them, comment on them and remember to visit the photographers' galleries as well.






Have a nice weekend!
Street Photography for experts
 

Defining Street Photography
by Dave Beckerman
Most types of photography can be easily defined by their subjects. A wedding photographer takes pictures of weddings. A portrait photographer poses someone and takes their picture. The nature photographer covers a wide area, but it is easy to categorize.
Street photography is difficult to define because it can encompass just about any subject.
If I were to ask you to name a few famous street photographers, you might pick, Garry Winnograd, Henri Cartier-Bresson, or maybe Robert Frank. But if I asked you to define street photography – that would be more difficult. You might say that street photography is candid pictures of strangers on the street. That might be a good start, but it doesn’t really describe street photography.
To start with, street photography doesn’t need to be done on
52 Street tips from the masters                 
“If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it’s a street photograph.” — Bruce Gilden
“Turn your attention to the four-legged population.” — Ying Tang
“Take a bus. Do weekly shopping. Pop into a public loo.” — Nils Jorgensen
“Document some evidence of human ingenuity that would otherwise go unnoticed. Do it without including any humans in the picture.” — Michael Wolf
“Get lost in a thicket of signs and structures.” — Wolfgang Zurborn
“Never ignore a cliché.” — Artem Zhitenev
“When you have to shoot: shoot! Don’t talk!” — Il Brutto.
“Make a picture containing The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.” — Jens Olof Lasthein
“On your knees please… take a picture fro
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Friday night Street Specials v1.2
A weekly selection amongst the images that were suggested as DDs
or simply impressed me and I think they deserve more attention.
Enjoy them, comment on them and remember to visit the photographers' galleries as well.
If you like what you see, :+favlove: this article
so it can reach as many deviants as possible.

Yard's contest 1st runner up

yeah sure, no bikes

something's missing

stripes x 3

a real superman at young age

a penny for his thoughts

are they?

subtle presences

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Friday night Street Specials v10.3
A weekly selection amongst the images that were suggested as DDs 
or simply impressed me and I think they deserve more attention. 
Enjoy them, comment on them and remember to visit the photographers' galleries as well.
If you like what you see,  this article 
so it can reach as many deviants as possible.






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Friday night Street Specials v10.1
A weekly selection amongst the images that were suggested as DDs 
or simply impressed me and I think they deserve more attention. 
Enjoy them, comment on them and remember to visit the photographers' galleries as well.
If you like what you see,  this article 
so it can reach as many deviants as possible.










Have a nice weekend.
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Friday night Specials v1.1 - The comeback
It was Friday, the 13th of March 2009 when the idea of featuring every Friday the Yard submissions that I liked more, came to my mind. Since then,  this weekly feature became a habit to me and there are very few Fridays that I didn't make it. When I took the position of dA's Street Community Volunteer, I moved this feature from the Yard where I used to post it and relaunched it in my personal account, this time featuring images from all over dA, regardless if they had been submitted to the Yard, or not. Now I feel it's time again for this weekly feature, to move back where it started. To the Yard Street Photography Group. The most hospitable place for a Street Photographer.
The first  Friday night's specials scored 34 pageviews. Go ahead, pay it a visit. http://the-yard-collective.deviantart.com/journal/Friday-night-s-specials-
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 is an old idea of mine which has its roots in the #The-Yard-Collective group, long before it was even a group. Older deviants remember the time when groups were clubs. I started posting this weekly feature back then, every Friday afternoon, showcasing 7 street shots that had been submitted to the club and had caught my attention during the past week. The feature lasted for a long time, untill I left dA  for personal reasons for few months. When I got back in dA and wore the Street CV hat, the idea of reviving this weekly feature came up again vividly. This time my intention was to showcase and promote street shots from all over deviantArt.
Till now, 22 FNSS have been posted, you can find them in my personal account profile page.  They average over 1000 pageviews each,  and as I've been told by several fellow street shooters, it's a feature worth waiting for, every Friday afternoon. In every FNSS
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Friday night's Street Specials v11.4

Journal Entry: Fri Nov 25, 2011, 10:51 AM
what is STREET photography - Streets of Athens

Warning by *djailledie


Street Photography color 058 by ~sagi-k



Tram boys by *NunoFigueira

Still Keep's walking... by ~itsmejegan


Sunday people 3 by ~Nirka

Stand by ~varjag


opposite by ~cangelir


Triangle by *endegor


Doraaaaa by *dukeofspade


worlds by ~geronimo89



Yellow Umbrella by ~pwillyams


Urban mermaid by *jimbeam166


kind of footstool by ~veftenie


XX street scene by *djailledie


quai n.24 by *Christine-Muraton



Deep in thought by ~Dionisic


Waiting in Ambush by ~Treamus






Hold tight 2 by ~Petach123


im by ~AcemHoca



Venice in the rain by *myoung4828


Escape from the rain by ~PetriW


Surfer by *DougNZ


Street Photography color 038 by ~sagi-k





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~ryujin2490 Mar 13, 2013  Professional General Artist
another sunday really got me. cool! the relation of the post to the lady in black is so awesome!
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*DougNZ Nov 30, 2011
Cool thanks Stam! Although I watch you I wasn't watching your journals and I've been missing out! Got a lot of reading to do now... ;-)
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`StamatisGR Dec 1, 2011   Photographer
you'd better! :work: :lol:
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`phoenixleo Nov 29, 2011
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The title made me think of horror movie in streets :dead:
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~cheekymonkeyali Nov 28, 2011
Nice selection :)
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~splendidofsun Nov 28, 2011  Hobbyist Photographer
awesome photos, and very talented photographers :la: :worship: I envy them :love:
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*JACAC Nov 28, 2011
g r e a t . c h o i c e . :clap:
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`StamatisGR Nov 28, 2011   Photographer
Thank you! :)
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*JACAC Nov 28, 2011
t h e y . a r e . r e a l l y . g r e a t
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*puken Nov 26, 2011
great works! :thumbsup:
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