Videos

Mike Chudley gives beginner street photography settings in manual mode: for daylight, 1/200 or faster, f/8 to f/16 for front-to-back sharpness, and ISO 100 to 300; for shallow depth of field, f/1.4 to f/3.5 and shutters towards 1/4000; and at night, 1/200 and a wider aperture, not extreme ISO.

Brian Lloyd Duckett describes walk-around street settings prepared so he just presses the button: a 1/250 minimum shutter in daylight, a small aperture for front-to-back context, exposure compensation for fine-tuning, and manual zone focusing with a 35mm-equivalent at f/8 focused at nine feet, keeping five to thirty feet sharp.

Andrew Boey takes the train into Kuala Lumpur as Malaysia's lockdown eases, handing a camera novice a small Canon mirrorless and teaching as they go: storytelling through composition, manual mode for silhouettes or brighter subjects, lowering the viewpoint to clear busy backgrounds, and directing subjects in a back alley.

Hunter, a London street photographer in small-town New Zealand, adapts his approach: swapping his usual 28mm for a 28-70mm locked at 70mm, as locals notice strangers sooner; opening wider than his habitual f/8; staking out the few busy corners instead of circling the high street; and studying Alec Soth.

Brian Lloyd Duckett gives ten street photography tips: travel light with a pocketable Fujifilm XF10 or X100V and an inconspicuous bag; read the streets for light, body language and detail; and set aperture priority at f/8 with auto ISO and 1/250 minimum, fine-tuned by exposure compensation, plus zone focusing.

Brian Lloyd Duckett identifies thirteen street photography mistakes: fear, eased by practice and avoiding eye contact; losing concentration to phones, music and chimping; expecting many keepers rather than one or two; walking too fast; acting so stealthily it looks creepy; and chasing low ISO over a 1/200 second shutter.

Andrew Boey leads students through Kuala Lumpur's Petaling Street: a flower seller shot at 1/10 second in burst mode so hands blur but face stays sharp, temple-floor reflections at ISO 800, metering on his hand before approaching, asking permission with a smile, and shooting statues at f/4 and f/11.

The COOPH team takes to the streets of Paris with the Leica CL Street Kit to demonstrate seven creative techniques intended to give street photographs a more original look and feel. Each tip is tried out on location around the city rather than explained in the abstract.

Ichipan, for Adobe, gives seven tips for street photography: begin on a smartphone, with earbuds as a remote shutter, and shoot alongside a friend to ease nerves; frame a spot and wait or roam; understand what draws the eye; use aperture priority and auto ISO; and keep gear in perspective.

Sunny Gala presents ten simple street photography tips drawn from personal experience and fellow travellers, delivered as a short montage of street images set to music with no spoken narration. The fourth video on the channel, it offers newcomers straightforward starting points for photographing people and scenes in public.