Street Manual

A field guide for street photographers.

by Luke Carey

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Restrict Yourself to a Prime Lens

Pick one focal length and use nothing else for thirty days. Not a zoom set to a fixed point — a prime. 28mm, 35mm, 50mm, whatever you already own or can borrow. The constraint is the project.

Zooms make you lazy. When you can change focal length, you change it instead of moving. A prime forces you to use your feet. You learn what 35mm sees. You stop thinking about focal length and start thinking about everything else.

Camera Settings

Single prime lens throughout. If you own a 35mm and a 50mm, pick one and put the other away.

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