Tag: Tips

The one thing I have noticed about my most satisfying images is that the thought process made a difference.

If the indifference to people is a disturbing concept to you, then you already find yourself leaning towards a more humanist approach for street photography. I argue you should go with it, not fight it.

Over the last few weeks I have been learning Lightroom. Video tutorials and free presets seemed to be a good place to start to get a feel for the tool. In reality the options, their function and the tool took the least time to understand. What took time was establishing the way I was going

I have gathered together information that I think will help photographers visiting Munich. The main aim being to make your visit more enjoyable, productive, safer and cheaper.

I am not a great fan of editing. I always try to get it right in camera. Getting to grips with Lightroom 6 has made me recognise opportunities and I wanted to share some of my progress from the last few days.

These are the 5 main points that influence COMPOSITION in my street photography. In this video I share some of my approach & what I do, when I am out taking them.  Hopefully you will find something that is new and worth trying. Enjoy. Alex.,

In this second part, I talk about the benefit of talking to the band, learning their expressions and movement, the benefit of manual aperture control on the lens and the benefits of manual focus lenses. – Counter intuitive perhaps, but it works for me, and perhaps you too… Alex.,

A cheep rear light for a bicycle is actually rather useful for photographers...

Today I wanted to share something personally interesting. The Bang Bang Club, is a film both for entertainment but it also gave me some tips that I wanted to share. The film „The Bang Bang Club“ from 2010 is the story of 4 photo journalists in South Africa documenting the fight not between the Whites

How to configure the camera settings for the same effect in Black and White that I use for my Street Photography.  I use the Nikon D5200, my wife the D3300, this works on both. I guess this is probably valid for the other models too, but may have slight differences.