Mastering Street Photography
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Mastering Street Photography is a practical guide to capturing the candid moments that reveal life at its most dramatic, absurd or beautiful. Street photography has a tradition dating back over a century, and today's digital world finds it enjoying a renaissance—yet there is little expert advice available. This is a practical guide to capturing the candid moments that reveal life at its most dramatic, absurd, or beautiful. Brian Lloyd Duckett demonstrates how the successful street photographer needs to be an unseen observer, with the camera a mirror of everyday scenes and unaware subjects. A guide to equipment and technical skills leads into lessons in finding inspiration, developing projects, and composing different subjects and scenes—laying the foundations for you to impose your personality on your photography and develop your own distinctive style. The book also addresses such key issues as staying safe and within the law when photographing on the street, and the art of building an audience for your images. Review: Top shelf reading. - Great binding. Great read Review: Exactly what I was looking for . - To learn how to do what I was already doing at a whole new level. This book has Elevated my work with a deeper understanding of how to express my visions inside the frame. It’s has help Master my 28 mm lens. With amazing results. And learned technics that are more precise and deliberate. I simply can’t overstate, it’s a game changer. Don’t hesitate.
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,297,893 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #45 in Street Photography (Books) #199 in Photography Reference (Books) #425 in City Photography |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 330 Reviews |
C**N
Top shelf reading.
Great binding. Great read
F**M
Exactly what I was looking for .
To learn how to do what I was already doing at a whole new level. This book has Elevated my work with a deeper understanding of how to express my visions inside the frame. It’s has help Master my 28 mm lens. With amazing results. And learned technics that are more precise and deliberate. I simply can’t overstate, it’s a game changer. Don’t hesitate.
K**S
Good Book
Bought as a gift for my adult daughter, who’s a photographer. She loves it.
D**O
Street Photography - UK Style!
This is a fun book, aimed at beginners to the genre, which introduces the basic principles of street photography and emphasizes shooting and philosophy over technique and postwork. This is a smart approach, because street photography is one of those genres in which experience itself is the best teacher, and too much emphasis on technique and postwork runs the risk of creating artwork that looks polished but is not really well-thought-out. The book is structured around topics with occasional "assignments" or activities to complete, as if you are taking a tutorial with Duckett. All the pictures (unless I am wrong) are drawn from Duckett's own work. So, if you're expecting samples of other photographers' work, you are out of luck. However, Duckett does mention several other photographers in his text which should give you some pointers on who to research if you want to know more. (I wish there were more animal photography here, as the cover photo is one of the best I've seen of a curious pup!) I was happy to see that both ethics and legal aspects of taking and publishing street photography are introduced here, as this is precisely the areas that are the riskiest for street photographers. Duckett is a UK-based photographer, so while much of his advice is specific to modern-day Britain, he never over-reaches his expertise. This is a useful book if you're already an intermediate photographer, have mastered your basics, and are ready to explore the more improvised genre of street photography. I've enjoyed this book a lot, and recommend it to anyone looking for some inspiration from the streets.
E**A
Exactly what I was looking for.
Love the book! I'm not connected with the author or the publisher. This book is great and exactly what I wanted.
N**S
... with Brian himself and it was not only a terrific day on the streets
I had the privilege to attend a one day workshop in London with Brian himself and it was not only a terrific day on the streets, but also a pleasure to meet such great Photographer AND Teacher! His book is also part of his excellency. Highly recommended!
A**R
Good book on Street Photography
Delivered on time and as described. Great book.
S**A
Five Stars
Beautiful Book!
M**9
Instructive text weakened by uninspiring images.
Duck Duckett is an intelligent, lucid instructor fully conversant with his subject. The book itself is well structured and printed to a high standard. Rather than offering the reader mastery of street photography, it delivers a beginner's guide to the subject, satisfactory though that is in many ways. The images used as examplars do not inspire in the same way that the text does.
A**9
Great book.
Great book with some really good ideas.
A**O
Great book to get started!
I recently rediscovered my passion for photography and was looking for some tips to get better at it. This book offers great advice on street photography.
C**N
Awesome book!
So many tips!!! This book can help you to be more confident. There are from basic to advanced tips. I really enjoy It.
H**Z
Excellent book for street photography lovers
If you like photography, if you like the street. This is the perfect book for you. It's written with a very accesible style. Easy to understand. Many tips. Practical cases and smart chapters. I'm happy to discover this work. Congratulations to the author. Thank you for this generosity and sharing. I hope he'll write a second book very soon.
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