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Photography Chemo Regime #4.1 - Decent Tips for You Budding Street Photographers

Came across this series of tips this morning and I thought it was quite nice. I have always liked the work of Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson - Google if you must - and they are all street photographers, capturing in black and white, always using a small small portable camera, a Leica often no less. Always using a 50mm prime glass or something around that range. So, no zooming etc. They just snaps away at what they see. Timing is therefore o the essence.

The pictures they took just transcends the photography media. Now that I own an LX-3, this is what I am keen to go into. These tips certainly rings through. Good luck!

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    I recently wrote a post on The Online Photographer (TOP) called Giving Us a Power We Don’t Have, about the new anti-photographer laws in the United Kingdom. The post drew a great many thoughtful comments from TOP readers, but I thought it might also be apropos to impart a few tips of a more immediately practical nature concerning photographing in public. These are just a few of the ways I know of or have heard of over the years to avoid attracting attention, and of dealing with trouble when it a

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