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12 Weekend Photo Projects to Get Over Your Fear of Street Photography

Chris Gampat
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11/14/2014
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This weekend, we’re giving you a couple of projects to do to help you get rid of your fear of shooting street photography. For starters, remember that everyone is only human and that you should never feel terrible about photographing someone in a public place.

Then start to think a bit differently.

Capture a Bustling Scene with Long Exposures

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Move Around And Shoot Everything Only from the Hip

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Shoot Using Only Your LCD Screen

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Try Using the Zone Focusing System

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Place the Camera Down and Use Its Self Timer Mode

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Look For and Pay Attention to Emotions

ISO 1000

Go for the Details

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Anticipate Tender Moments Between Couples

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Don’t Shoot Any Longer than 50mm

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Stand/Sit in An Area for a While And Wait for Something Good to Happen

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Photograph the Late Night Commute

He must be used to this

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Use Your Phone Instead of a Dedicated Camera

 

Being a creeper.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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