How To: Street Photography in China
Luminous Landscape has posted an article about taking photographs in China!
These tips should easily apply to any one who is an aspiring photographer.
The tips include:
- Dress appropriately. If you’re going to be walking around taking photographs, dress the way that most of the people you’ll be shooting dress. In other words, if you’re at a wedding, wear formal clothes. If it’s a street market, jeans are appropriate, and if it’s the beach, wear shorts. Don’t wear a Hawaiian shirt to a funeral.
- Don’t carry a lot of gear. Ideally, just one body and a couple of lenses. No camera bag, or if you must, a small canvas sack with an extra lens and a couple of memory cards and batteries. This will allow you to walk further, work longer, and not be singled out as a target for theft.
- Keep it small and simple. A large camera body (1Ds or D2x style) along with a large white lens makes you stand out like a sore thumb. A small camera body and a single medium zoom (or a couple of fast primes) is all that’s needed. Long lenses have no place when doing this sort of photography. Keep it short, keep it simple. Keep it fast.
- Use Auto-everything. I know this is going to get me kicked out of the fraternity, but set your camera on a high ISO (400) and set it in Program mode. The reason for this is that documentary photographs often happen in a split second. You don’t want to be thinking about whether or not you have a fast enough shutter speed selected, or enough depth of field. Buy yourself some time by setting the camera so that you can swing from the sunny side of the street to a shadowed doorway in a split second, and still get the shot.
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