Shooting from the Hip in Photography – How to perfect this Technique

Blending in is one of the most important traits of a good Street Photographer and shooting from the hip is a great technique. Acting invisibly on the street allows us to capture those candid...
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Understanding Aesthetic Pictures

In the previous article Talent vs Training I claimed that anybody can practice improving their ability to see interesting scenes and create aesthetic pictures. Recently I got a message complimenting that they liked my pictures, but unfortunately...
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Master Any Condition

Fall Photography Ideas I know that Photography is more fun when it is sunny and warm outside, but there can be great ideas for photography in fall too. The light alone in the summer raises...
Street Photography Berlin Sebastian Jacobitz

Bringing Depth to your pictures – Layering

Photos are a two-dimensional reproduction of a three-dimensional reality. To maintain an interesting narrative it is essential to draw your viewer into the scene by creating different layers in photography. Having him stand far away...
Overcome Your Fear

Overcome Your Fear in Street Photography

Street Photography is more than a simple craft of Photography. As a genre, it is greatly dependent on Your personality and Your psychological strength. To fully enjoy Street Photography, You have to get rid...
Low Angle Photography

How The Low Angle Shot Improves Your Photography

Learn how the low angle shot helps to overcome boring habits. As photographers, we are wandering around the world, carrying our camera either around our neck or in our hands. Whenever we see something interesting,...

Embracing negative Space in Photography

Negative Space in Photography having a Positive Impact Some compositional elements are well known like the rule of thirds, while others are rarely talked about. Embracing negative space in Street Photography is a method to...
Exposure Triangle

The Exposure Triangle – A simple Explanation

Digital Cameras offer all sorts of automatic modes. You can set the camera to measure the exposure automatically and not worry about the settings Yourself. If You want to give Your photographic joy to the...
Editing in Lightroom

Editing Your Street Photographs in Lightroom

Street Photography is about authentic scenes and not artificially created art in post-processing. Nevertheless, with the right editing, You are able to emphasize the character of the Street Photograph and can also push Your...
Depth of Field

Learn how the Depth of Field in Photography works

When looking at photographs, one thing that becomes very obvious, even to people that have no idea about photography is the depth of field. Most people have a different outlook on the depth of...