One of the greatest things that ever happened to my photography was when my professor took my zoom lens, gave me his prime lens for the weekend and told me to go reshoot what I had shot the weekend prior. This was akin to when my high school art teacher took my pencil and eraser away and made me do life drawing with a pen. Both limitations forced me to just focus on the work rather than constantly second guessing my frame or my mark and ultimately missing the moment. Artists naturally over analyze, it is part of the process, it is what enables us to see what others may have missed. However, over analyzing can be detrimental to the process and make you unable to just make a decision. Giving yourself limitations like a prime lens or drawing with a pen forces you to just make decisions and work through them rather than constantly second guessing yourself and ending up with a forced product.

Thank you, Steve, for sharing all the great information experiences, and tips!

I love Steve Simon. Great Photographer and teacher.

Brilliant and simply put. Wonderful speaker and teacher. Thankyou The next 2 or 3 times I watch this I'll take notes. New Old Photographer

Wonderful information. I've been shooting street stuff for years and it's a great reminder.

Just watched this video and I have to say thank you very much for the mention of the back button auto-focus! This is a game changer for me. I had no idea you could remove autofocus from the shutter button! A hidden little setting that removes so much frustration! You sir just won the internet for me today 😁👍

well done mate! excellent presentation thank you! thank you to B&H for the seminar! You guys ROCK!!!

For sure one of the best videos on this channel - Thanks!

Just now stumbled on this video. For me this is one of the most interesting and useful talks about street photography I've ever seen.

Very inspiring in terms of what to shoot. Very helpful. Thanks a lot Your pics are great! Love them.

One of the best video's I've seen on B&H

Incredible video! Well worth the time to watch. Definitely worth watching often to sharpen your skills

All of these long form B&H videos are incredible.

Excellent video. Thanks for taking the time to film and edit it and of course for positing it for our benefit. Keep up the good work! -Migs

Watched the short version, liked it so much came back for the full.

Thanks Steve for this session, really amazing.

Really enjoyed this and pure fluke to find. Definitely look at more of his Steve Simon's stuff

You've given me such a boost with this regarding the old confidence issue. As a sprightly teen I had a far greater level than I hold today as a greying middle aged bloke. Anyway, gonna load up some more film and head out shortly to see what's what. Oh, never made the switch to digital cameras, I prefer the slower pace of film.

So much knowledge in 58 mins! Amazing!

Thank you i really enjoyed watching this video. It was very helpful and i cant wait to take my camera out and start shooting.

This is the BEST B&H video I've ever watched

Definitely back- button focus every time. It's a game changer. I enjoyed this session with some incredible shots. Good one!

wow, I am quite literally stunned by the quality of this class. Great content, great tips, and an overall great presentation. What a treat!

We'll be using some of these techniques. Great pointers.. Thanks

Step 4, so true. I rarely go out shooting with another photographer. I love the solitude, it's my therapy, especially coming off a 24 hour shift....just get in the truck and drive and shoot. Socializing is fun and sometimes needed, but i do best when i concentrate and just be.

Very uplifting. Thank you.

Thank you. Inspiring and encouraging.

A truly well thought out video.

This video is informative and enjoyable to watch. It sparked lots of ideas.

Thank you! I gained so much from this.

Great video! Thanks for sharing this!

One of the most interesting speech I ever hear here on internet.

Great talk and Steve Simon has given me the courage to give this a try. ones covid lockdown is over here in the uk. I will be a newbie to street I normaly do macro and close up this is just a hoby for me to do as I am disabled.

Probably, THE BEST video I have watched on this platform. Thank you, good sir.

Great video!! very inspiring and educational!

this was FANTASTIC!

Huge dose of information. I can't believe you have less views than channels with for example "top 10 (useless) camera tricks". Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Steve, Yours is one of the best presentations on this subject I've seen. Great references, tips and you speak without the ego that so many presenters project. I'll recommend it to my students.

Hey Steve, super ideas, loved it. Wish I still lived in NYC I'd take your workshop!

Very inspirational video. Thank you

Gr8 information :) Thanks very much!

Never liked auto focusing (because I used to have to lock it by holding the button all the time), but back button focusing solves this perfectly. Great video, great info!

great stuff, thank you

Great video! VEry inspiring!

I have learned just to snap anything of interest no matter what it may be. It's fun and can thru up many surprises.

thank you Maestro..

Great lesson !

Great, thank you!

2 words.. Thank You!!

Great video and the Bombay Bicycle Club name drop is 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Really enjoyed this speech and learnt so much! Thanks!

At 58:30: That is Central Ave., Albuquerque, in the Nob Hill District looking East toward the Sandia Mountains. My apt. building is a little visible. It hasn't changed too much. It's now August, 2020.

This was truly valuable and absolutely worth the hour

EXCELLENT!!

Awesome - we like it ☺

His explanation of back-button autofocusing just made me finally consider seriously giving it a try. Normally people just say "back-button is better!" but don't go into it. When he described the work flow it suddenly made tons of sense. Can't wait to get home!

Good video, so many different opinions on how to do street photography. That was so funny with the girls bending down to get in your photo.

Beautiful speech

Buenisimo , un agrado todo .- minuto 54 : 16 la cara de la señora de la derecha hace la foto aun mas graciosa .FELICITACIONES !

Great to see Canadian Talent!! Have you done most of your Street photography in Montreal/Ottawa? Great inspiration all the while!!

Great video

good stuff!

Really interesting - thanks for posting.

very helpful

love it

great tips!!!! mahalo!

Always cool to get photography tips from David Duchovny. Awesome video thank you

Great tutorial! I'm a photojournalist in Chicago which of course includes street photography with my Nikon D750. My two favorite lenses are the 50mm 1.8D lens and a 24-70,m zoom and I feel they keep me ready for everything! ,Keep up the great work you're doing...

Watched this with out realizing that I’ve read (majority) of his book! Lol this was so great. I’m gunna go finish that book now 😂

Thankyou

Wow thanks for helping me get my mojo back!🤗

love this i treat this channel like school

The new Nikon mirrorless Z6 and Z7 seem to be gaining ground over the D850. I haven't tried them yet, but I may get the opportunity soon.

Most lenses are sharper if stopped down just a little bit, especially at the edges of the image. The old twin lens reflex film cameras were great for looking down and turning the cameras 90 degrees right or left to photograph.

As a Canadian, I've noticed that whenever I'm in the States it feels like an entirely different country.

Good tips for better photography. I did notice he keeps saying reticulating screen it's actually an articulating screen. Reticulating is from a Latin word meaning a small net or creating a network as in the veins structure of a leaf.

Yeah, I also started back in the days of ASA

street camera > fuji XT-4 with a 35mm f 1.4 prime and in my pocket a Sigma 18-50 f 2.8 just in case .....set my camera standard on Acros R film simulation . For Acros R setting feel free to contact me

Digital cameras with focusing options make things much easier. I also use manual focus vintage lenses that are trickier to get in things in focus so tend to be more selective with my shots. Forcing me to think more. I'm a novice so trying different things. KZfaq university student ha ha.

Gilden sounds like the guy that snapped the flash about four times in my face through the window of the Manhattan cafe I was having coffee in. If I could have seen where he went he would definitely had a lot of explaining to do. You hear my Lucy? :) When I took up photography five years ago I determined that I would be considerate and not be so in your face.

Fairly certain the term is Articulating screen. Other than that, brilliant advice. Thanks!

I have learned not to worry too much about iso. But I still set the limit on my cameras to 800.

Great video. I have a question about copyright. Let's say I go up to a stranger, ask if I can take their picture, they're game and I end up with a great shot. What things do I need them to sign a release form for? Things like adding the photo to my online portfolio, hang it at an exhibition, have the photo published, sell as a print, etc. My understanding is I need it for anything that's even remotely public (so all of the above and more), is that correct?

This always confuses me and there may be some key piece I'm missing. People, this guy included, will talk about setting their ISO to Auto. Then they say they shoot in Aperture Priority. Doesn't Auto ISO negate the need for that? I mean, if you put your ISO on auto, then set the other two corners of the triangle to, say, f5.6 at 1/500, the camera will adjust the ISO to get your exposure correct. What happens if you set it to Auto ISO and Aperture Priority? If two corners of the exposure triangle are set to auto, won't the camera just move the ISO and SS up and down willy-nilly?

Him standing there and shooting people pass by is a small part of framing. Framing is important to learn. Go to galleries, look at the pictures and learn composition. See that fruit in a basket? It took longer to arrange those fruit, than to paint it. Once you learn it, you will become not only a better photographer, but an artist, and a person that sees with their eyes open and free mind.

What are the challenges of the privacy act? how does copyright act come into play? can you sell your street photos with out the consent of the subject?

Any Jeff Cable videos coming?

At 42 minutes. You may not believe how much hostility I've gotten from KZfaqrs who say You "should" or "must" use a 50mm prime for street photography. Their arguments against a zoom are all off point. There is no such thing as should or must as a universal application in photography. Personally, my go to lens is the Nikkor 34mm-120 mm f4. I also carry the 14-24 f.2, which gives me 14mm-120mm instantly with 2 bodies. Background changes are possible with a zoom that are not with a prime.

Bill hicks is a photographer? He's alive!

"What is it that these guys who want to be great photographers, that they start by living..." Cartier Bresson

Ansel said there were eleven steps!

Steinberg's Supermarket, OMG, ancient history, alas.

"Never give up!" Winston Churchill complete university commencement speech after WW2.

Love that he says "Bow-kay" and not "Bow-Kuh". I know it's petty, but there you are...

Great but Nikon specific recommendations. Too much more available for the street photographer with the new sony line small compact and high ISO abilities. Why not mention those. But content was great. Thx

I take candids with my phone all the time.

who did he say is the most influential photographer sounded like Cargie something tried googling it but didnt come up with anything

ASA was American Standards Association, I think. ISO, International Standards Organization, is the same scale. No difference.

Sorry. Couldn't avoid. "Reticulating" screen? This is not a paint curing process: maybe "articulated"...(or tilting)

Steps 1-10 Shoot photos.