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NIGHT STREET PHOTOGRAPHY

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Night Street Photography – Today I’m sharing my Night street photography tips – what settings to use for night street photography, what gear and what ideas for your night photography.
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How to approach images you want to capture. After the videos start crushing street photography and keep crushing street photography it’s time to hit the night life 😉
Read below for detailed settings & info.

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– Sony: https://geni.us/oPe8AR (Amazon) & https://geni.us/MdaMd (Amazon) (I put the cheaper versions)
– Canon: https://geni.us/Br8LcvO (Amazon) or https://geni.us/4XWk (Amazon) or https://geni.us/fTpi (Amazon)
– Nikon: https://geni.us/UBELT (Amazon) or https://geni.us/Ytjt (Amazon)
Note: If a Sigma Art version is available for those lenses and your camera system get it, it’s really good.
– M4/3: 12mm or 42.5mm depending on your camera system.

✚ Settings for night street photography:
1/ If you want long exposure: here is a trick, start with the highest ISO possible just to check the framing. Then go down to 5-30s if you want car lights trails
2/ If you just want situational shots, use the tips I gave in the Start Crushing Street Photo video. But this time maybe allow your shutter to go a bit slower
3/ Depending on your camera you might want to limit your ISO from going too high. I’m good until 12800.
4/ Shoot at the lowest aperture possible – for a nice shallow DOF and bokeh.
5/ I shoot in A with the min SS down to 1/125s – or all manually. Up to you really.
6/ Underexpose a little to keep information in the highlights and recover shadows with less high ISO noise.

✚ Gear at Night:
1/ Lens, lens, lens, get the lens with the widest aperture possible. 1,4 ,18, 2.0. Stick to primes if you cant.
2/ I don’t use tripods except for a flexible one but feel free too – I don’t like carrying it around except in nature. In the city, I always find somewhere to put the camera (table, bench, my backpack…).

✚ Overall tips/ideas:
– Use the environment you’re in. The goal is not to light up the whole scene but only showcase what is being lit
– Find reflections
– Do long exposure to get cars lights trails
– Use neon lights / street signs
– BOKEH with the lights !! So smoooooooth!

Guys get out there and go shoot some epic stuff (yes even if 99% will be trash, go for the 1%).

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