In this presentation, I share some practical tips, techniques, and approaches to shoot "street portraits". I also show some of my contact sheets (the behind-the-scenes images) to give you a better sense of how I work. Learn more about street photography on my blog: http://erickimphotography.com/blog/ If you want hands-on guidance to shoot street portraits, you can see my upcoming street photography workshops here: http://erickimphotography.com/blog/workshops

1. How to Shoot Street Portraits
Eric Kim, 2015

2. What is a “street portrait”?

3. What are you afraid of?

4. How to get over the fear of
approaching strangers

5. Street Portrait Tips

6. 1. Keep working the scene
until they forget about you

7. 2. Ask your subject to move
to an interesting background

8. 3. Ask to photograph their hands

9. 4. Get one not looking / looking

11. 5. Work the scene while
looking at the edges

12. 6. Ask your subject to look down

31. 7. Provoke a response

32. 8. Remember you will never
see them ever again

62. 9. Look for dramatic light

63. 10. Ask your subject not to move

87. 11. Ask for eye contact

88. 12. Shoot different perspectives

104. 13. Get really close (macro mode)

105. 14. Talk to your subject while
photographing them

186. 15. Ask them not to smile

187. 16. A posed photo can look candid

192. 17. Capture the “unguarded moment”

193. 18. Try shooting with and without flash

200. 19. Capture hand-gestures

201. 20. Get their hands close to
their face

205. 21. Shoot the same framing
more than once

206. 22. Capture the environment
(take a step back)

213. Concluding thoughts on
street portraits