Ahoj! This is Canon M6 Mark ii with Viltrox 23mm prime lens f/1.4. Here is first action camera
Insta360 GO2. Here's another action camera which is Insta360 OneR and these are my running shoes
and this is me Zdenka. And all of this combined went together out 3x to take street photos POV
style so I can teach you how to work with this prime lens on the street, how to frame the shots,
how to find the shots and how to edit them in a post and also tell you the story how I failed.
I've got over 40 photos for you and POV style clips to show you in this video
right after I explain you why I chose this setup. A challenge. I don't feel comfortable shooting
prime lenses on the streets because I like to zoom in and out. I like to frame the shot
right away on the spot. Focal length. I don't feel comfortable with 23mm focal length because you
need to get quite close to the object to take the shot. I prefer to stay a little bit away.
A curiosity. I'm a typical woman and I want to know everything. I'm very curious how the
photos will look like, if I'm actually able to deliver results or some kind of good satisfactory
results. I'm really curious to see how it's gonna look if I'm gonna be using 23mm F/1.4
lens on the streets, street style photography. A challenge never hurts. It gets you further
and this is a warm up round for me as the next shoot will be happening in Toronto,
the jungle. First 2 photos are from the lake. You can take an empty scene photo
or you can really make it candid looking by shooting through something like green leaves.
First photo was taken with aperture F/1.4 which made the leaves very soft.
Second photo was shot at f/4.0 which made the leaves a bit harder. The edges were
not so soft. All photos will be shown RAW and also edited once I applied one of my presets.
Seeing this boat leaving and I also see another boat coming in so let's try to shoot perhaps
through this. 23mm focal length is going to make the boat look kind of far and lost. By
taking away some of the color in a post like the railing, the boat has a chance to stand out more.
As I was driving by, I noticed bridge above the train station next to the highway.
Perfect sunset opportunity. When you take photos like these,
you want to purposely underexpose these shots otherwise you will end up with a bleached sky.
With these type of shots you won't really see the result much until you edit the photos.
But I think I'm gonna go a little bit more in the middle just because the middle will give me
a better angle and I'm gonna get a little bit of a golden reflection from the sun.
So I'm standing here, kind of in the middle and I'm just gonna wait for truck preferably.
Some of you might have noticed that once I pressed the shutter button, I was continuously taking
several shots. That is something you can set up in the menu if you have Canon M50 for example or this
camera Canon M6 Mark ii as I know some of you have it on this channel. You have a choice between fast
and slow. I chose slow. I want only a few photos. Car just entered, in the center and almost gone.
Then I can choose the shot I need. I am seeing a train there. Now the sun is a bit lower so
I think that the shot could be much better now. Hopefully the sun is gonna go even more behind the
cloud so I'm just going to give it a minute or 2 and the clouds should be really covering up
the sun soon.
Don't settle for sunset photos only. Check out the other side like I did.
Ordinary photos can look completely different once you crop it and apply a different color palette.
As the sun is going down, it is a good idea to come back
and try some more shots as the images will look different each time the sun moves.
At this point I should explain why I went out 3x. Lockdown, not being able to see other people,
lack of socializing, feeling isolated, feeling disconnected, not being able to practice my craft,
sounds familiar? I packed and I went to Whitby all confident that I'm gonna show
up and take a whole bunch of photos and videos, I'm gonna be commenting,
teaching you as I'm taking the photos, what I'm doing, how I'm doing it.
I felt very uncomfortable. I felt like I forgot my craft. I panicked. So I took
some photos on the bridge as you just saw and I drove to downtown where I didn't even bother
to get out of the car. Drove to my town where I sadly saw a few people in a very drugged up
condition and that was it. I was going straight to home and I had a big announcement when I got home.
I forgot my craft. I can't do this. The next day I started editing the photos
and once I saw the results I thought, it's not actually that bad. Let's try some more.
What looks like an ordinary street, a bus stop in a color, might surprise you once you take
the color away. Black and white shots are always about the shapes and shades. Big heart is slowly
filling up with the locks. Perfect opportunity to bring down the aperture all the way down to f/1.4
to get the best out of this lens. Light and airy preset brings out the details even more.
Keep your eyes open and listen to surroundings.
React quickly if opportunity shows up such as this fire truck in the action.
And if there is no action happening, no people around, only cars driving by,
try to shoot through stuff to shake it up a bit.
Those few shots you just saw were from day 2. I couldn't shoot much longer because there was a
storm coming right at me. I was still pretty stiff but there was that little touch of that feeling
like yeah, I can probably do this but not with the people. There were a few people there. Only few
but they were all staring at me as soon as they saw that I'm holding a camera in
my hands. There were a few photo opportunities like people at the bus stop or a man crossing
the street with a bicycle. Did I take the shot? No I couldn't. Luckily you don't have to only take
photos of the people. I took 2 days off and I went back in. Parking machine is the usual object of
street photography but it can look pretty plain. I optioned to turn it into a retro shot and a
green gray duotone shot. Don't rush this type of a shot. Wait for the right cars to pass by.
Pay attention to walls with paintings and graffiti.
Pay attention to what is behind the windows.
High-rise buildings tell a lot about the city. For buildings you want to raise aperture to
F/5.6 at least to have most of it in focus.
Red is a color I always keep an eye on as it nicely pops on the street.
Here I used red flowers as my foreground
and then I used my fall retro preset to give it a character.
I always loved architecture with interesting shapes. Again taking away the color will make the
shapes stand out more. I've used black and white soft on this one. For those wondering, a link to
my preset bundle can be found below the video in the video description. It's $5 only. Thank you for
supporting my channel. I had an eye on this large building right when I arrived here. The texture.
How can you make it more interesting if you cannot zoom in or get closer?
Railing is the answer for me.
No action no problem. What is general to you and what you
see daily just like this street with cars driving by can be very interesting to someone who has
never seen Canada. Who lives for example like in Czech republic where I grew up. Don't be afraid to
capture it. I like to get closer to the walls and take advantage of leading lanes as much as I can.
And if you really get stuck and think that this is just a regular boring street shot, use your phone
to create a reflection. I know, this trick we have seen 100x if not thousands of times on Tick Tock,
Instagram, here on YouTube. I was even laughing at myself doing it as well. I was thinking to myself,
where is the original idea girl? But you know what? It was fun and it was interesting to play
with it. People who are not into photography might look at this photo and think. At that
point you just want to smile back and not tell them that you've used this overdone social media
hack. These photos were taken at Bowmanville It's a city on the other side from us. It is even
further away from Toronto. It was an awesome day. I had a really great time. What has changed with
this city is the fact that it was just giving me a different vibe. I felt very comfortable. People
were smiling at me. I even had few conversations. I was back. I felt connected to it once again.
If you're brand new starting out in a street photography and are quite scared or quite
nervous about it or if you're someone like me who had this disconnection, an unplanned break,
take it easy. Try few different times. Different locations. Maybe try different equipment,
different lenses. If I knew that this is how I'm going to react, I would never challenged myself to
shoot with the prime lens to begin with. I would definitely pick a zoom lens and I think next time
zoom lens it is. I was always more of a zoom lens photographer. I hope you enjoyed today's video.
Maybe you learned something new or just got an idea how the photos will turn out with that type
of a lens and again a link to the preset bundle can be found below the video. Well give it thumbs
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