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Joel Meyerowitz is such a nice guy, as well.

28mm on my Q3 is perfect - if it it's too wide then I'm not close enough!

I'm not a street photographer and can't remember if I'd seen Saul Leiter's work before, but I've studied the works of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Fred Herzog, Joel Meyerowitz, Ernst Haas, and Vivian Maier. Leiter's bold use of color and his ability to abstract away the mundane really resonate with and comes naturally to me. He's my new favorite street photographer!

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Very good advices and I bought last Saturday your book about street photography in Litchfield. I'm from Lisbon and is difficult not missing that light of that city.

You don’t want it to not engaging why take photos of them like they are manniquens they are people with stories who deserve to know what your doing. And it’s lovely to engage and speak with them

Nooooo it makes you like creepy be confident and look them in the eyes and smile

Very useful indeed - and thought provoking Another example of how Rules can suck the spontaneity and interest out of photographs

Just so good! Thank you sir! 😊

I shoot with a Nikon full frame. I bought the 40mm a couple of years ago because it's a good compromise between the 35mm and 50mm. I really like that lens. It's one of my favorites. I bought the 28mm around Christmas last year and now it stays on one of my cameras. I usually use it on my z6 II. My z8 is just a little too big and heavy to walk around with with the way I shoot. If I had bought the 28mm first I may not have bought the 40mm. I like walking right by someone up close and taking a photo of them without them knowing. I'll either have the camera hanging from my neck or around one shoulder and let the camera hang a bit lower. I can turn the camera in portrait view that way very easily and hold it in one hand. I do have a wrist strap but I don't really like it that much. I use zone focus and I'm getting better at angling the camera in the right direction and angle without having to have the camera at my eye. Sometimes I'll hold my camera high close to my right shoulder near my chin. I can angle it inwards to point out at someone to me left. I can walk down the sidewalk and take the photo as I pass by our as I meet someone. The 28mm let's you be really close and still get a lot of things in the background in the frame unlike the 40mm. I think a wider angle lens is more forgiving because it has a wider depth of field even at f/5.6. I never thought I would get into our like street photography. I mainly shoot landscape and milky way photos. I find street photography to be more challenging. It's always different when you go out even if you're walking the same streets. I have an IG account but I don't post as much on it. I'm fact it's private. There's too many fake accounts with links to porn sites always trying to follow me. If I made it public I would have to go through the followers every day to block those accounts so they wouldn't have access to my other followers. My photography is just for me. I mostly post on fb.

Great information/video I hope it will not take as long until upload a follow up video!

GOOD EXPLANATION AND YOU SPEAK VERY GENUINELY ON YOUR EXPERIENCE

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i appreciate your videos on photography, you are an encyclopedia of knowledge to any new photographer. understanding failure is over 90% of photography put in to perspective to never give up and do what you can to get your photos out there. I save videos like these for reference of what not to lose track of. thank you for giving these artists a tutorial on increasing the chances of success. You are well respected for what you bring to us amatuers and pros alike.

Thanks for the tips, which are very useful in any country. I respect you and follow you with great love from Romania.

I've had the good fortune of discovering your channel on you tube as someone who's new to street photography and eager to learn. I truly appreciate your obvious expertise, your welcoming energy and your teachings. Thank you. I've been listening to a number of your videos over the past few days and am very grateful to have discovered you. Thank you again.

Very informative, thank you for creating this.

Thank you

So many gems of solid gold advice. I will watch this again & again. I'm just getting into street photography and very much 'finding my feet'. I confess to being a little nervous about photographing strangers and have decided to use a 25mm prime on my MFT. I like to use a square crop and your lecture gave me an idea to shoot close to people by having them off centre so it looks like I'm photographing past them. I have a f/0.95 prime and love shooting wide open for the lovely bokeh with short DoF which looks fantastic in monochrome with a super vintage look. I found your lecture very inspiring. Yesterday I visited a local indoor market (on a shopping expedition) which has a beautiful high glass roof that provides some gorgeous light, is great when it's pouring down and I'm excited about revisiting it just to do some photography and your lecture has made me feel more confident. Thank you. Subscribed and liked.

Good video, plenty of good info. Thanks for sharing Brian.

35 or 40mm, but not on a Leica. Asking to be robbed.

Bangers = Sausages 😂

I have actually found the opposite to be true, but each to their own!

Except for talking for 5 minutes before getting to the point… the video was great 👍

I find 50mm limiting, I've used 40mm f2.8 for some years now on Canon, and I'm used to it. Feels the perfect size to encapsule what I see into the frame. I just got a Nikon FE with a 50mm 1.8, yesterday I found myself missing shots for being too close and having to get a bit away from the action. I'm eyeing the Voitlanger 40mm now.

Excellent video. Great to hear your perspective. Thank you so much.

Excellent information and way to configure the camera for street photography, the clarity of its exposure resolved some doubts and left me ready to return to the street. Greetings, see you soon

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Thanks Brian for your explanations regarding the angles in which we shoot. Long time ago the 28 mil f2.8 was my main lens for all kind of subjects. Why f2.8? The matter of costs but at the end it helped a lot to get the eye balls much easier sharp compare to f2 or even f1.4. But using 28 mil depends on your personality and the interaction with strangers. From my point of view it‘s most important to habe enough „sideground“ around the main subject otherwise the photographs are only useful for passports. A 50 mil f2 (again costs) i used for pub indorshooting because the field of view and background is mostly much darker than the ca subject. Now 50 years later i don‘t have the‘bite‘ anymore, but i try….. Thanks for your channel!

Big Thanks for your kindness words about Street photography love ❤️

If your interested in seeing his work Saul Leiters exhibition is on at Milton Keynes MK Gallery until 2nd June 2024. It has travelled from Japan to the UK and then it's next stop is Germany. What is interesting is the images are not large like Don Mc Cullins exhibition at the TATE modern, most are small prints printed during 1950s even his large famous colour prints are roughly A4 size. The exhibition consists of four rooms dedicated to his work with the addition of some of his paintings. It's worth going to see.

Could you recommend an f1.8 or f1.4 for a 35mm lens and why

I respond by saying, I'm working on my portfolio. I don't engage in arguments and walk away in silence. It works wonders but takes practice standing your ground.

great words and I think your opinion on photographing the less fortunate is spot on ... we shouldn't ever exploit the vunerabal

Aperture Priority does not guarantee a fast shutter speed.

just watched a video with a street photographer taking old lady in the street without asking her first. it's a problem. a real problem with internet publication and AI theft. try to take photos which do not disturb or record people's faces etc

That was absolutely wonderful video presentation. It was filled with lots of practical information for setting up my camera for street photography. Thank you very much.😊

Very interesting collection of differing styles

I struggled to get night shots to look like "night" until i realised a combination of LED street lamps and AUTO ISO was turning night into day. I now set ISO to 5600k and things looking much more "night".

Are there great street photographers today that can "compete" with Meyerowitz ?

Your assignment is amazing you are giving me the confidence to go on the street and do my own thing thank you so much and god bless.

You given me confidence.

Thank you very much Brian great info.

Excellent, common sense advice!

Thanks for this video! I just got a camera and this is super helpful!

I have auto review turned off, and after a shoot, I leave it a week or so (sometimes) before I even look at the shots on the 'puter.

My camera I can't set the shutter speed. How do I do? I have canon 77d

This guy’s great. I wishhe had a subscibe button so I wouldn’t lose track of his videos.

It seems to me that, when a photographer is confronted, it's because the photographer first confronted the subject.