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Learn to train your eye and improve your timing in order to capture the decisive moment!

Whether it’s due to social media or the introduction of great rangefinder-style digital cameras over a decade ago, street photography has experienced a remarkable resurgence in recent years. You can be roaming the streets of a classic urban environment (New York, Paris, Tokyo) or on a simple photo walk around a quiet neighborhood—it has never been more popular to pursue the art of capturing those candid, fleeting moments that happen throughout the day, of freezing a moment in time and transforming the ordinary into an extraordinary photograph.

But learning to see light and moment, to make quick decisions, and to nail a photographic composition are all crucial skills you must master in order to become a good street photographer. Photographer, instructor, and author Valerie Jardin has been teaching photographers how to take better photographs for years, and in Street Photography Assignments: 75 Reasons to Hit the Streets and Learn, she provides dozens of prompts for you to practice in order to refine and improve your craft.

These activities focus on themes such as:

 • Street portraits
 • Gesture
 • Shadows
 • Silhouettes
 • Rim light
 • Humor
 • Abstract
 • Tension
 • Motion
 • Reflections
 • Leading lines
 • Creative framing
 • Juxtapositions
 • Double exposures
 • And much, much more!

Each assignment includes a description of the technique, various tips and tricks to practice, technical and compositional considerations, and an example photo that Jardin has captured when practicing the same exercise. Whether you have 30 minutes or 3 hours, each assignment is an opportunity for you to take your camera and hit the streets. No more excuses!

ISBN-13: 9781681986791

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Rocky Nook

Publication Date: 12-15-2020

Pages: 204

Product Dimensions: 7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

Valérie Jardin is a French photographer, currently residing in Minneapolis, MN. She is self-taught and worked for several years as a commercial photographer. Today, Valérie is known internationally by the workshops she conducts around the world. When she is not teaching others the art of visual storytelling, Valérie is a prolific author, speaker, and podcast producer of the bi-weekly show Hit the Streets with Valérie Jardin. She lives and breathes in pixels.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

1 Street Performers 2

2 Street Portrait 5

3 Environmental Portrait 8

4 Street Portrait with a Story 10

5 Photographing Children 12

6 Eye Contact 15

7 Creative S elf-Portraits 17

8 Silhouettes 19

9 Silhouettes with Sunburst 24

10 Rim Light 27

11 Shadows 29

12 Shafts of Light 33

13 Golden Hour 35

14 Blue Hour 38

15 From Shadows into Light 40

16 Bokeh 44

17 The Street at Night 46

18 The Correct Step 49

19 All About Color 53

20 Photographing the Back of People 55

21 The Timeless Subject 58

22 Gesture 60

23 Humor 63

24 Humanity Without People in the Frame 66

25 Go Fishing 68

26 The Minimalist Approach in the Urban Landscape 71

27 The Minimalist Approach in the Natural World 74

28 Juxtaposition 76

29 Interconnections 78

30 Reflections in Water 80

31 Reflections in Glass 82

32 Reflection in a Mirror 84

33 Split Image Reflection 86

34 Double Exposure 88

35 Natural Creative Filter 90

36 Creative Framing 93

37 Creative Focusing 95

38 Rule of Thirds 97

39 Centering Your Subject 99

40 Letting the Subject Come to You 101

41 Looking In 104

42 Looking Out 107

43 Looking Up 109

44 Looking Down 111

45 Low Angle 114

46 Leading Lines 116

47 Negative Space 119

48 Creating Tension 121

49 Layers 123

50 Panning 125

51 Slow Shutter Speed 128

52 Tilt It Like You Mean It 131

53 Using a Specialty Lens 133

54 Using Your Camera's Advanced Filters 135

55 Using Billboards or Storefronts 138

56 Using Signage 140

57 Iconic Landmark 143

58 Story in Multiple Frames 146

59 Play in the Rain 150

60 Public Transportation 152

61 Train Station Platforms 155

62 Airports 158

63 Hands 160

64 Feet 162

65 Umbrellas 164

66 Hats 167

67 Dogs 169

68 Love 172

69 Readers 174

70 Limitations 177

71 Color × 4 179

72 Shop Owners 182

73 Artists and Their Spaces 184

74 Photograph an Event 190

75 Photograph a Fair at Night 192

Conclusion; Get Lost on Purpose 194