Articles by James Maher - PictureCorrect22 articles

How to Keep Your Street Photo Editing Simple

How to Keep Your Street Photo Editing Simple

The essence of street photography is all about real, unplanned, special moments—going out into the world to see what you can find and relate to and bringing these moments back to share. But too often, photographers take these special moments and edit them to death, trying to over-perfect them—and this just diminishes the spontaneous, special […]

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7 Keys for Creating Stunning Urban Landscape Photography

7 Keys for Creating Stunning Urban Landscape Photography

When thinking of landscape photography, what often comes to mind are photographs of mountainsides or desolate beaches, but landscape photography is not limited to the wilderness. With a little preparation and forethought, great landscape photographs can also be taken in urban settings. Here’s a quick primer to get you on the right track. 1. Foreground, […]

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Are You Making These 10 Common Street Photography Mistakes?

Are You Making These 10 Common Street Photography Mistakes?

When looking at the work of street photographers, it’s often a common thought that, “I could do that if only I were there.” However, when you finally go out into the world with your camera it can be shocking to find that it’s not quite that easy. There’s a reason that the best street photographers […]

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How to Take Sharper Street Photography, Even at Night

How to Take Sharper Street Photography, Even at Night

Capturing sharp photographs is by far the toughest technical skill in street photography. People move quickly, you are often moving quickly, the light isn’t usually ideal, and you sometimes have to frame instantly and suddenly. When I take a look at other people’s street work, one of the most common problems I notice is that the […]

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5 Unique Tips for Editing Street Photography

5 Unique Tips for Editing Street Photography

There can be a very fine line in street photography between overdoing your editing and getting it just right. Creating a mood, building feeling and capturing an environment while staying true to the realness and specialness of found moments is at the heart of the genre. And this can make editing tough. Because of this, […]

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5 Advanced Tips for Street Photography

5 Advanced Tips for Street Photography

So you know how to read the light and capture a sharp shot. You’re confident in your compositions. You’re not afraid to capture people candidly. You’ve found that this is something that you enjoy doing and you want to continue with it and further your skills. What comes next? Here are some tips that I […]

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Street Photography Cheat Sheet

Street Photography Cheat Sheet

If you are new to street photography, or even if you’re not, remembering settings, nailing the composition, getting idea inspirations, and just getting motivated to get over the fear of doing it can feel daunting. To help make it easier, here’s a cheat sheet full of reminders and setting information to print and take with […]

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8 Important Tips for Improving Your Event Photography

8 Important Tips for Improving Your Event Photography

Event photography can be both incredibly fun and a very stressful form of photography. On one hand, you get to be privy to special moments and interesting people having a lot of fun. There are beautiful venues and views, often great food, and they usually pay pretty well. On the other hand, you need to […]

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5 Issues Street Photographers Often Struggle With

5 Issues Street Photographers Often Struggle With

There are five issues that I believe most commonly set back street photographers. While the genre can be incredibly difficult at first, reducing these mistakes will significantly help you to make your photographs both look better and be more interesting. A few of these tips are technical, a few are conceptual, and a few are […]

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The Most Important Tip for Street Photography

The Most Important Tip for Street Photography

If you opened this article expecting a simple technical tip to improve your street photography then you’ve come to the wrong place. This is not an article about getting closer, zone focusing, hip-shooting, camera settings, or using a wide-angle prime lens. Practicing all of these things is important to be able capture what you see out there in […]

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