Street Manual

A field guide for street photographers.

by Luke Carey

TechniquesPremium card2–3 hours

The Environmental Portrait

Approach someone and ask to photograph them where they are - behind their market stall, outside their shop, sitting on their doorstep. Not a posed portrait in an empty space. Them, in their place, doing roughly what they were doing.

You're documenting a person and a world simultaneously. The environment tells half the story.

Watch for: backgrounds competing with faces. Strong context is good. Chaotic context is noise. Find the balance.

Camera Settings

Any. Shoot at the natural light of the environment.

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