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Craig Litten – Don’t think…Shoot

Street Photography Magazine

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How to Shoot Street Photography

When taking photos, it's important to trust your gut instinct and not overthink. This applies to both manual and autofocus cameras. Zone focusing is a great technique that eliminates the need to constantly focus. With advanced autofocus technology, you can simply tap the shutter and shoot. It's all about keeping your camera ready and being prepared for the perfect shot. In street photography, the subject is the main focus, so depth of field isn't a major concern. Just focus on capturing the moment.

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don't think shoot. Don't think shoot. It's a gut instinct. You recognize a photo because when you hesitate, you're missing the photo. It's gone. You're watching the photo happen. You're like, Oh, I missed that
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photo. So can you do the same move with the autofocus camera or
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camera? You can do the same move as autofocus camera. You could use like if you're a lot of street shooters shoot Fuji as you know, and I shot Fuji for many years. I love Fuji. Yeah, you do. And you could do the zone focusing on that also. And what's great about the zone focusing and we'll get into that more in a minute is that you don't have to focus. Yeah, it's just it's instant. When you're using autofocus camera, you can do the same movement. You tap the shutter, you level put your hand up your level and you shoot. So it's the same movement and you're thinking all the time you're thinking about that motion. You're thinking about you're ready. You keep the camera ready. You got your hand down on the camera. Depending on how many autofocus points you use, the cameras are so sophisticated now with eye recognition and all that you could you don't need. You don't need to point, shoot and recompose like in the old days, which I did for decades. Yeah, that's all I still do. So yeah, so the analogy could work for anything. And you know, most of the time, personally, when I'm shooting street photography, it's you know, we're not talking about it. I shoot an F F eight out of 11. I'm not I'm not worried about what's in focus behind the subject. It's about the subject in front of me. It's not about I'm not worried about beautiful depth of field. I do that

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