Hit The Streets 84: Q&A and Photo Challenge

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This week my guest co-host is Ugo Cei. We answer questions about ways to remain inconspicuous on the streets and focal lengths. We announce the winners of the last photo challenge and announce a new one and much, much more!

Guest co-host bio

Ugo Cei is a passionate professional travel photographer and an educator who helps photography enthusiasts sharpen their skills, so that they can take amazing pictures. He does this in various ways. First of all, by providing a wealth of free content on his website, articles, eBooks, and tutorials.

He designs and leads photography tours and workshops on location around the world, including Italy (Venice, Tuscany, Cinque Terre, Milan), Greece, Scotland, and Oman. His students and guest think he’s patient, knowledgeable and always willing to share what he knows.

He co-hosts and publishes a weekly podcast about travel photography, The Traveling Image Makers. Every week, they pick the brains of famous and not-so-famous travel photographers to learn what it means to travel for the love of photography and photograph for the love of travel. He loves to travel, having visited almost 50 countries, and to show the beauty of the world and its inhabitants to everybody. He thinks his is really an amazing planet we live on and every place and every culture possesses beauty that deserves to be shown.

Website: https://ucphoto.me

Tanzania VIP Photo Safari: https://tours.ucphoto.me/tours/tanzania-vip-photo-safari/

The Traveling Image Makers: http://ttim.photo

Q&A

Do you have any tips to help yourself 'invisible' to shoot that candid moment? I live in a fairly small location so it isn't really possible to merge in to the crowd locally - thought you might have some tips for the unobtrusive use of the camera to assist. Betsy Dougherty

You use 23mm exclusively. Do you feel that focal length is preferable to 35mm for street work? I am considering trading the 35 for a 23. Then I think the 35 was relatively inexpensive and I should keep it for close-in portraiture and get the 23 as well. I value your opinion, especially since I don't generally collect lenses. Keep up the great podcasts and guests! Michael

And the winners are...

Dennis Linden and Eric Kidwell. They will both receive an ebook of their choice from our friends at RockyNook.com

Winning image by Dennis Linden

Winning image by Eric Kidwell

Next Challenge: Creative Framing

Listen to the show and enter your best shot in the comment section below before May 24. Good luck!

Book Pick

Announcements

Tanzania VIP Photo Safari: https://tours.ucphoto.me/tours/tanzania-vip-photo-safari/

Out Of Chicago: https://www.outofchicago.com

Valerie's next webinar: How to capture awesome silhouettes

Samples of creative framing in street photography by Valerie Jardin:

Hit The Streets 64: 27 Minutes with Valerie

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A little house keeping related to the podcast and other photographic news this week. I also answer two listener questions in a monologue episode.

Links mentioned during the episode:

• New eBook:  #DoSomethingForNothing NYC with Joshua Coombes Fundraiser to help support Josh and his project. Any donation welcome!

• New Valerie Jardin Limited Edition Streetomatic Camera Bag by Cosyspeed:

US & Canada orders: Click here  EU and rest of the world: Click here

• Paris in March: Click here
• Tshirt store: Click here

Questions answered in the show:

Ryan Katsanes: "Valerie - Can you provide some tips on how you got yourself so comfortable shooting from the hip? I am trying to do more of it myself, but am having trouble making the leap because I fear I'll miss or have the camera too crooked. I know practicing a lot helps, but any tips on how to fast-track that process are much appreciated!"

Katharina Bonzel: "Do you find that being a female street photographer can be both a hindrance and an advantage in the sense that women might be less threatening than guys, but, on the flipside, people are less like to “mess with” a big burly guy than a small woman? I’m thinking that people might more easily get aggressive with someone they think they can take. I generally find a smile goes a long way, but I also know that I don’t take pictures where I am worried about attracting attention from potentially threatening looking guys."

Hit The Streets 63: Q&A and Photo Challenge

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This week is a new Q&A and Photo challenge episode and I invited the founder of CosySpeed and the acclaimed Camslinger camera bag Thomas Ludwig to co-host with me. We talk about a new  'Valerie Jardin' limited edition camera that is released this week in support of Joshua Coombes and #DoSomethingForNothing.

My guest an I also answer questions by Andrew McDonnell and Bob Lester.

Correction: When talking about the steadiest way to shoot handheld with a slow shutter speed I meant after the exhale (not inhale) Sorry I didn't catch myself during the recording :)

Sponsor

This episode of Hit The Streets is brought to you by WHCC. I've trusted WHCC with all my printing needs for over 15 years and I couldn't be happier with their awesome service. Take a quick look at the video below of my visit at their lab when my exhibit stand outs were being produced.

See the WHCC quality for yourself and receive free prints when you open an account by clicking on the banner pic below.

The Valérie Jardin limited Edition Camera Bag

More info and order page:

US and Canada orders: Click here 

EU: Click here

Rest of the world: Click here

Guest Bio:

Thomas Ludwig is a street photographer based in Hamburg Germany. He's been shooting street photography since 2008 and made many of his photos in African countries like Togo, Uganda and Burundi. With his background from seven years of studying Buddhism at the Tibetan Center in Hamburg/Germany, he is the author of the free eBook 'Keep the Focus – A Meditation Guide for Street Photographers'. Thomas is the CEO of the camera bag manufacturer Cosyspeed and lives with his family in Germany.

Links:

Website & Shop: www.cosyspeed.com  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cosyspeed/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cosyspeed/ YouTube: http://bit.ly/2deEDcn

And The Winners Are...

Smile at Grand Central, NYC by Mel Rolleri

Nigel Brunsdon with this photograph of the (now ex) Canadian Minister of Health being comforted after being the target of a protest by groups saying the government isn't doing enough to prevent overdose deaths.

Next Photo Challenge: BOKEH (think Holiday lights!!!)

Capture Bokeh on the streets. Listen to the guideline on the show and enter your best shot before December 28 in the comments below. Good luck!

Book Pick:

Time of Time/WENDEZEIT by Herbert Piel

Hit The Streets 58: Q&A and Photo Challenge

This week on Hit The Streets, guest co-host Jens Krauer and I answer listener questions about personal projects and spot metering. We also give the names of the winners of the last challenge and announce the new one.

Sponsor

This episode of Hit The Streets is brought to you by WHCC. I've trusted WHCC with all my printing needs for over 15 years and I couldn't be happier with their awesome service. Take a quick look at the video below of my visit at their lab when my exhibit stand outs were being produced.

See the WHCC quality for yourself and receive free prints when you open an account by clicking on the banner pic below.

Guest co-host: Jens Krauer

Jens Krauer is a passionate street and documentary photographer based in Zürich Switzerland. Official Fujifilm X-Photographer, workshop leader and vinyl collector with a strong background in urban culture and street art.

Links

 www.urbanframes.net

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011468868019

And the winners are...

 Tracy Habenicht and Achim Soelter

Tracy Habenicht

©Achim Soelter

Next photo challenge: EMOTIONS

Capture emotions in every sense of the term. Listen to the guideline on the show and enter your best shot before November 23. Good luck!

Book Pick:

Hit The Streets 48: Q&A and Photo Challenge

This week on Hit The Streets my good friend Karen Hutton is back and together we answer listener questions about rituals to get in the zone, why our obsession with photography, socks and more!

Sponsor

This episode of Hit The Streets is brought to you by WHCC. I've trusted WHCC with all my printing needs for over 15 years and I couldn't be happier with their awesome service. Take a quick look at the video below of my visit at their lab when my exhibit stand outs were being produced.

See the WHCC quality for yourself and receive free prints when you open an account by clicking on the banner pic below.

My YouTube video of the WHCC labs

Guest Co-host

Karen Hutton is a professional light bender and storyteller. That’s shorthand for her style of fine art landscape photography, and the fact that she’s also a voiceover artist, online show host, writer, speaker and teacher. She has over 2 million followers on social media; with over 9 billion views of her photographic work. Karen, her photography and voice has been featured at Google and on Stuck in Customs, TWiP, Macphun Software, Forbes.com, The Grid with Scott Kelby, Rick Sammon’s DPE Podcast.  She lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. You can find her at Karenhutton.com. 

Q&A

Karen and Valerie answer the following questions sent by listeners:

Moshe Friedline: "Do you have any rituals that help you get in the zone when you start a street session? ...And more importantly, what are your favorite kind of socks for a long day on the streets?"

Mike Branch: "Hi Valerie: I know photography is a major passion in your life , but what do you think it is about photography that makes it such a magnificent obsession?"

Links

And also, Valerie's fave socks at the moment: Bombas socks

And the winners are...

Jan Sears, areal view of the San Francisco Bay bridge

©Jan Sears

Dave Therrien for 'Boston at noon'

©Dave Therrien

Both winners will receive one of Valerie's ebooks or one from our friends at www.rockynook.com

Next Photo Challenge: Street Dogs

Enter your best street dog pic in the comments below by September 14. One photo per person. Good luck!

Guest's book pick

Samples of street dogs from Valerie's collection