{"id":1263,"date":"2015-08-01T21:42:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T01:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2015-08-01T21:42:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T01:42:05","slug":"make-street-photography-easier-by-chasing-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/make-street-photography-easier-by-chasing-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Street Photography Easier By Chasing The Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

Street photography is tough…\u00a0 There really isn’t a harder genre of photography out there.\u00a0 Well, perhaps portraits of kids, trying to take a kids portrait is like trying to keep cat litter from getting tracked through your house…\u00a0 Impossible.\u00a0 Considering how difficult street photography can be for even the most seasoned photographer it stands to reason that if you can find a way to make it easier you would, right?\u00a0 Chase the light.<\/p>\n

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Instead of walking slowly up and down each street or setting up in front of something interesting, follow the light from block to block, looking for interesting backdrops to create interesting photographs.\u00a0 It won’t take long to find an interesting shadow or light pattern.<\/p>\n

To take the shot above I was actually standing on the road between where the cars drove and where the bike path was (I almost caused a pile up of bikes because a nice person slowed down to avoid messing up my shot, not realizing someone was right behind him).\u00a0 This is a spot I’ll revisit in the future.<\/p>\n

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If you know where the sun is in the sky you can continually move in a way that sets you up for interesting street shots.\u00a0 By putting your subjects between you and the sun you can create silhouettes.\u00a0 Interestingly, you don’t even need to have the sun behind them, the light reflecting off of a building is bright enough (see image below).<\/p>\n

\"JMB_9337\"<\/a>Next time you’re looking for great street shots pay attention to where the sun is and move to areas where it casts strong shadows or lays light down in interesting ways.\u00a0 By chasing the light like this you ensure that you walk away with far more keepers and overall more interesting images.<\/p>\n

Side Note:\u00a0 When I shoot landscape I sometimes take my bike so I can cover more ground and chase the light rather than set up in one place and take shot after shot in the same area.\u00a0 I’ve done the same with street photography.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

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Do you chase the light?\u00a0 Feel free to leave your thoughts on the matter in the comments below.\u00a0 You can share your images with other DecisiveShot readers in the DecisiveShot Flickr Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Street photography is tough…\u00a0 There really isn’t a harder genre of photography out there.\u00a0 Well, perhaps portraits of kids, trying to take a kids…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[356,322,46,34,30,29],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/JMB_9229.jpg?fit=799%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5xbS3-kn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}