Hit the streets
Dave Fieldhouse
An award-winning freelance photographer from the Midlands, Dave specialises in landscape, street and architectural photography for magazines and corporate clients. www.davefieldhousephotography. com, @davefphotos on Instagram/Twitter.
Shoot wide open
If it is our intention to create clean, crisp images we are going to need to allow a lot of light onto that sensor. Not a problem during the day, but at night a compromise needs to be made. This is where an understanding of the relationship between aperture, shutter speed and ISO becomes useful. As with all genres, the photographer needs to decide what kind of image they want upfront. For my street images I want frozen action, some sharp details around the focal point, and as little noise as possible. This means I tend to shoot in aperture priority at f/2, or wider if the lens allows, and I let the ISO creep up to about 2500.
Be respectful
When shooting in a public space such as the street, there are very few laws that protect our privacy. That shouldn’t mean it is a free-for-all to photograph whatever
