Episode #223 Street photography, learning from the best featuring Matt Stuart
Kev is trapped in Malmesbury, no petrol, no heating, no oven even!
Kev is trapped in Malmesbury, no petrol, no heating, no oven even! Send pizzas now! We talk about seeing in black and white, what clients think of our ’smaller cameras’, the new miracle sound box from Tascam, having your camera converted for infrared and camera system looks; is there such a thing? BIG show news for an event coming up we’d love you to join us at, Kev sorts out some exposure lock problems and we talk about making pictures during times of crisis in the news. The extraordinary street photographer Matt Stuart is our guest and he also is the feature of Book of the Month with ’Think like a street photographer'.
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Guest of the Week - Matt Stuart
Matt Stuart is a British street photographer. He also works as an advertising photographer and leads street photography workshops. Stuart was a member of the In-Public street photography collective. His books of street photography include All That Life Can Afford and Into the Fire. Source Wikipedia
Recorded Live - November 5th, 2020
British photographer, Matt Stuart never goes out without his trusty Leica and, in a career spanning twenty years, has taken some of the most accomplished, witty and well-known photographs of the streets.
Join us for a conversation covering his beginnings in photography, his obsession with the streets of London and the stories behind his most recent book, Into the Fire, documenting the daily lives of a community living in an abandoned military base in the middle of the Sonoran Desert in California.
Hosted by the Tom A. Smith - Director of the Leica Akademie USA.
A guide to street photography: Matt Stuart, manners and human autofocus. We learned about manual exposure in the last installment. Now we're going all in with a look at manual focusing. Our guide is Matt Stuart, a London-based photographer who's made his name with funny and quirky shots of humanity going about its business; shots that often materialize and then disappear so quickly that even the fastest autofocus system would fail to keep up.
Images used with permission and strictly copyright © Matt StuartLinks of Note *
The Tascam unit we talk of.
Jeffrey Smart who was referenced by Matt Stuart.
Sunseeker app that Matt talks about.
Kev’s Photography Workshops.
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Book Of The Week
Think Like a Street Photographer: How to Think Like a Street Photographer
'Never does that old maxim "the harder I practice, the luckier I get" ring truer.' - Matt Stuart
Street photography may look like luck, but you have to get out there and hone your craft if you want to shake up those luck vibes. Matt Stuart never goes out without his trusty Leica and, in a career spanning twenty years, has taken some of the most accomplished, witty and well-known photographs of the streets.
From understanding how to be invisible on a busy street, to anticipating a great image in the chaos of a crowd, Matt Stuart reveals in over 20 chapters the hard-won skills and secrets that have led to his greatest shots. He explains his purist and uniquely playful approach to street photography leaving the reader full of ideas to use in their own photography. Illustrated throughout with 100 of Stuart's images, this is a unique opportunity to learn from one of the finest street photographers around.
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