What is street photography? If you ask a dozen people to define street photography then there is every chance that you will get a dozen, similar but subtly different answers. If you do a search on Google asking ‘What is street photography?’ then you get something along the lines [...]

Zone Focusing Project In this project you are going to shoot everything in manual focus mode. Either read your camera / lens manual and get familiar with the various focal distance ranges according to your equipment or go to the website referred to in the resources section, enter your [...]

Wide Angle Lens Project Accentuating angles with wide-angle lenses usually make for more powerful images.  I am not a great fan of extreme wide-angle lenses, the type that unnaturally distort an image, but anything around 28mm on a camera with a full frame sensor works for me.  I would [...]

Travel Photography Project This is one to do if you ever get the chance to grab a long weekend away or for when you go on holiday. You might have to agree a day or two away from the family, but you are a street photographer, this is important [...]

Lighting Project Learning to see light will be one of the things that improves your photography, taking it to the next level. If you have read the lighting chapter you will now understand that I like to simplify and categorise light sources in the following way. Front lighting - [...]

Your 12-month project For this project I have made some suggestions to shoot specific subjects every time you go out during a month.  I am assuming that for the majority of people then shooting opportunities might commonly only be at weekends, perhaps some evenings.  So, when I say shoot [...]

Your 1-month project For this project you might try going to two, three, or even four different places, one each weekend of the month perhaps, or whenever possible.  They might be different towns or cities, or just different parts of the same city. What you are going to try [...]