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#PhotoTips: Change your perspective often

Try to change your point of view often enough to add more interesting perspectives beyond the overused eye level shots.⁠

#PhotoTips: Compress the Space Between Repetitive Elements in Your Frame

Use the telephoto end of your zoom lens to compress the space in between elements to emphasize the repetition and to isolate your subjects. In smartphone cameras, use the portrait lens or telephoto lens if available.⁠ That’s the technique that I used in this...

#PhotoTips: How to Use a Fisheye Lens for Travel and Street Photography

A fisheye lens is perfect for narrow streets and pathways such as the one found in Barrio San Blas. In fact, if positioned correctly, one can even include two merging pathways. As I have been saying for a while now, I’m finding so many creative ways to use...

#PhotoTip — Include movement and clean background in your frame.

Try to frame your subject against clean background whenever possible. Also, try to include movement or the idea of movement in your frames to make your photographs more dynamic. Slide left to see a previous frame which fails in both of these tips street photograph...

#PhotoTips: When to Use Black and White in Your Photography

During a recent photo walk I was leading in Antigua Guatemala, I decided to shoot a portrait in black and white to show the suggested framing for this fantastic instagrammable spot. When I showed it the group, one of the photography enthusiasts asked me when to know...

#StreetPhotographyTip — Kissing couple framed within three sets of arches in Antigua Guatemala.

This image was during a recent photo walk where we were practicing how to use natural frames and sub-framing. Believe it or not, the human elements came together within seconds. First the couple walked into the frame and sat almost dead center inside the arched...