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I'm about to head to LA tomorrow to do some street photography and I'm just wondering how do street photographers pre-set their exposure and aperture and still get DOF and a focused subject?

I use a Nikon D70 and I don't think I could correctly guess my distance from a subject and also get good exposure.

Any tips would be appreciated.
>> Anonymous
Practice and stalk your subject around until it comes into the ideal range. Or, if you don't want to be a manual-fag, use aperture priority or automatic mode. For focusing, use center-point autofocus.

You should get about the same results if you know what you are doing (and you won't miss a shot).
>> Anonymous
>>202214

Am a noob at this aswell in all honesty...

But i shoot with my prime almost exclusively for street. And as said already, i keep it in Aperture priority, that way the cam takes care of the ISO and exposure, lets me set teh DOF. I manual focus though, old lens on a new body.. but i like it, made my focusing dam fast.
>> Anonyfag of Borneo !bHymOqU5YY
I set my camera on Manual - f/8, 1/125, only changing the ISO when appropriate (and depending on the weather). Found that that particular speed is good for blurring motion, giving a sense of movement.
>> Anonymous
DSLRs are terrible for street photography
>> Anonymous
>>202293

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Troll harder.

OP - use aperture priority. As a personal thing, I use MF, but you can use AF if you want. If you're using MF and having trouble, try increasing the DOF until you get a hang of it, then gradually open up the aperture more until you get the result you want.
>> Serenar !m827jEgWi.
>>202293
Perhaps this could be qualified with "certain SLR/lens combos are terrible for street photography"

Prefocusing works best with manual focus lenses that have depth of field marks and distance scales, so you can open up to f/8 or f/11, align one of the relevant DOF marks with the infinity mark on the distance scale, and then read the other DOF mark to the distance where all things begin to be sharp. For extra control, don't align one to infinity so you know that you have a sharpness range of say, three to five meters. Look up "hyperfocal focusing" if my instructions make no sense.

Technically, it's possible with a DSLR, but modern lenses seem to have done away with such high tech things as engravings on the barrel. I'm no Luddite, but prefocusing really does work better with older cameras/lenses.

(Whether it's required for street is a completely different story)
>> Anonymous
Wide-angle (35mm or wider) + hyperfocal shit
>> Anonymous
just fake the dof in photoshop

it is easy
>> Anonymous
get a leica
>> Anonymous
>>202317
>>202333
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