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Hitting the streets of London for my first go at street photography next week with my 350d(Digital Rebel XT), any tips /p/ has to offer? I don't tend to deal with the more 'instant' nature of candid photo's.

Pic is Henri Cartier-Bresson's "Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare"
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
Don't be a pussy.

I.e., don't use a lens longer than about 55mm, don't be shy about taking people's pictures, don't lurk in the shadows like what you're doing is wrong.
>> Anonymous
pretend you know what youre doing at all times even if you dont.
>> Anonymous
>I.e., don't use a lens longer than about 55mm

Just to note, that's at the 35mm conversion. So for the Digital Rebel, 34.375. That's if you want HCB style shots. A neat thing to do is just portraits of random people on the streets with a medium telephoto, say, something that works out to ~90mm equivalent.

>don't lurk in the shadows like what you're doing is wrong.

But do lurk in the shadows like what you're doing is right. A few extra seconds of the subject not knowing you're photographing them can make a difference. Just don't look like you're some pervert who is going to go home and masturbate to the photographs.

My tip: set everything in advance. Aperture to the sharpest (or whatever you want to be shooting at, the sharpest aperture is usually good), focus (manually prefocus, adjust as needed), focal length if you have a zoom (shoot at just one), ISO, and shutter speed. Keep your hands ready to change ISO and/or shutter speed as needed, but everything else is guaranteed in most situations.
>> Anonymous
>>76789

Prime lenses are sharper and an aperture of 4 on newer and 8 on older is optimum sharpness. Depth of field will be good for street distances too.
>> Anonymous
My tip... get a small Rangefinder film camera on the cheap, like a canonet or a olympus xa. Great image quality, small footprint, the olympus xa is especially discreet, since it's all black and very small, and there are no mirrors slapping. Another way to pass incognito is by shooting from your hip, or to pretend you're just fiddling with the camera in your hands. Or you can just skip all of this and be the total asshole we all want to be, like Winogrand :D
>> iProd !8x7lXo9zIQ
If you want to get some zany face shots to bring home to mom and the kids, simply shout out "Hey, you great big faggot!" to your subject, and you may be rewarded with a confused and/or dumbfounded subject. Be warned, though, as it is the real world, your subject may become hostile and give you the ol' nose bleed, broken camera, and kick in the dingleberries. Stay safe, stay sharp, stay photographitimitizing!

/end todays lesson
>> Anonymous
>>76701
why not longer than 55mm? cuz it makes you look like a paparazzi spy?
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>76789
Actually I meant 55mm for reals. I.e., the medium telephoto you mentioned.

>>76796
'Cause it makes you look like a perv who's taking the pictures so he can go fap to them later. Even if that is, in fact, what you're going to do, try not to *seem* like that's what you're going to do.
>> Anonymous
LOL
>> angrylittleboy !wrJcGUHncE
Shoot with a buddy.
>> Anonymous
Get drunk enough to lose all inhibitions, but not so drunk that you can’t hold the camera.
>> Anonymous
>>76792
Yeah, they are, but that's not the point. The idea here wasn't getting the extra bit of prime goodness, but instead the "one focal length, one camera" advice given to people trying to master documentary and street photography. And since OP seems new at this, I'm going to bet he just has the kit lens and maybe a 50/1.8. I could be totally wrong; he could have an R-to-EOS adapter and a dozen R primes, plus one or two L lenses thrown in there for when he needs autofocus. But probably not.

And your contention about sharpest apertures generally isn't true. I understand- I don't have it- that the Rebel kit lens is sharpest at somewhere in the range between f/8 and f/11. That's a pretty new lens. The 50/1.8 (a pretty old design, I think, though I could be wrong) is sharpest at f/5.6. My understanding is actually the opposite- that older lenses tend to have faster sharper apertures. That could just be because they used to make the typical lens much faster than they do now, and *almost* all lenses are sharpest somewhere around two stops away from their maximum aperture.
>> phesarnion
>>76831
Tried that one.... not the best idea, I left the lens cap on for half a roll, then forgot i was using a fully manual camera - NOT GOOD!
>> Anonymous
>>76862

You need more practice!
>> Anonymous
>>76862

Think you overestimated your alcohol limit. :-p