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52 Assignments: Street Photography

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52 Assignments: Street Photography is a mission brief, a photographic workshop, a personalized journal, and an anarchic guide to putting the creativity back into your photography. It is filled with...
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  • 01 April 2019
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52 Assignments: Street Photography is a mission brief, a photographic workshop, a personalized journal, and an anarchic guide to putting the creativity back into your photography. It is filled with prompts and projects, nudges and sparks, innovations, and inspirations, to help you kick your photographic habits, step out of your comfort zone and add the creativity and character that is the essential feature of professional street photography. The book features 52 color-coded commissions and concepts with alternative ideas for composing, creating, and printing eye-catching images from the street.

You will discover different ways of approaching your subjects; challenges and games that add a level of mischief and play to your work; ideas for using maps, books and signs to unleash your creativity; lists of the best festivals and events to attend; prompts for alternative subjects and themes; guides to removing clichés from your work; radical techniques for pushing your camera beyond its limits or using alternative cameras; and examples from historic masters; along with ideas for innovative approaches to processing and printing. If you have any sort of creative roadblock in your street photography, this is the book to drive you right through it. The rest of the journal's pages are styled for you to add your own thoughts, notes, lists, Top 10s, technical specifications, quotes, and even sketches and doodles, creating a record of your own 52 photographic assignments. These may be completed weekend by weekend over the course of a year or dipped into every time you need to bring a new concept or creative approach to your street photography.

Assignments include: 

  • Festivals
  • Themed Events
  • Historic Landmarks
  • Maps and Guides
  • Street and Road Signs

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Price: $19.99
Pages: 128
Publisher: Ammonite Press
Imprint: Ammonite Press
Series: 52 Assignments
Publication Date: 01 April 2019
Trim Size: 8.25 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9781781453520
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: PHOTOGRAPHY / Techniques / General, Photography: subject-specific techniques and principles, SELF-HELP / Creativity, Digital photography
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Brian Lloyd Duckett is the Principal and Course Tutor at Streetsnappers, a specialist in street photography workshops and tutorials in London and cities across Europe. A highly successful commercial and editorial photographer, he teaches as a Visiting Lecturer on photography degree courses. He has worked for many leading newspapers and commercial organizations, but his hobby and passion is street photography. He is the author of Mastering Street Photography, Street Photography Workshop, 52 Assignments: Street Photography, 52 Assignments: Black & White Photography and 52 Assignments: Portrait Photography (Ammonite Press). Brian is based in Merseyside, England.

Introduction 6
1. Sign of the times 8
2. Apocalypse now 10
3. Rules? What rules? 12
4. Have a "no finder" day 14
5. After dark 16
6. Pick a color 20
7. The decisive moment 22
8. Going underground 26
9. Layer up! 28
10. No shades of gray 30
11. Do not pass go! 34
12. In the news 36
13. Just ask! 38
14. Out of the shadows 40
15. Lights, camera, action! 42
16. Abstract 44
17. It's cool to be square 48
18. 1 street, 1 film, 1 day 50
19. Open wide 52
20. Gestures 54
21. Silhouette 56
22. 24 hours in the life of... 60
23. Chiaroscuro 62
24. All the right angles 64
25. Make it go "pop" 66
26. Catch their eye 68
27. Up close & personal 70
28. The urban jungle 71
29. Into the light 74
30. In the gallery 76
31. Like a tourist 78
32. Let's get critical 80
33. Funny guy 82
34. Ghostly apparitions 84
35. The unusual in the usual 86
36. Juxtapose! 88
37. Play the waiting game 92
38. Turn back time 94
39. Follow me 96
40. Repeat that please! 98
41. It's a dog's life 100
42. Shoot film for a month 104
43. Be negative! 106
44. A rat's eye perspective 108
45. Show off! 110
46. Banish your fears 114
47. Party time 116
48. Eyes down 118
49. Mirror mirror 120
50. Set the standard 122
51. Whatever the weather 124
52. Finish on a high 126