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Shooting a Bar at Night Without Losing the Atmosphere

Practical advice for photographing a crowded bar at night, from shutter speed and focus to mixed light, composition and restrained editing.

Most of the arguments against fisheye lenses come from people shooting outdoors, where a bent horizon is an obvious mistake. Take one inside …

Two runners, a dog on a leash, a row of bike hoops, a road full of headlights. Shot handheld from behind and slightly above, on a public …

Most street photography advice assumes you’re standing close with a 35mm, waiting for someone to walk into a doorway of light. That’s one …

A couple walking down a cobbled city street after dark, sharp from the cap on his head to the stitching on her coat, with a crowd of thirty …

Four dancers in saturated blue and red robes on a lit wooden stage, with everything below the stage edge falling away into an almost black …

Lyon, 15 July 2018, early evening, a few hours after France won the World Cup final. The frame was taken from inside a carriage rolling into …

On paper this scene should not work. A floodlit white stone bridge sits against a sky with no light in it at all, the water throws back a …

Most gallery photos fail for the same reason. The photographer points the camera at the art, gets a flat rectangle of someone else’s work, …

The stall had everything a photographer thinks they want. Whole crabs on crushed ice, whelks in their shells, three grades of oyster, lemon …