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Shooting at Dawn
Set an alarm. Be out before 6am. The streets are empty or nearly so. The light is soft and low. The people who are out at that hour - cleaners, delivery drivers, early commuters, the night's last stragglers - are not the same people as the afternoon crowd.
Watch for: the twenty minutes around actual sunrise. The quality of light changes faster than you expect.
The point: most street photographers work afternoons. The dawn shift is uncontested.
Camera Settings
ISO 800–3200 before sunrise. Drop it fast as light increases.
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