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Compositing street photography images with Photoshop

Compositing street photography images with Photoshop

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Compositing street photography images with Photoshop

There are a lot of different kinds of photography. There's landscape photography, there's portrait photography, there's fashion photography. And of course, there is a great tradition of street photography. The process of getting out on the street, and shooting candid moments of everyday life. This was something pioneered by the great Andre Cardie Persand, who spoke eloquently and demonstrated masterfully the decisive moment that I'm not saying that I've got any particularly decisive moments here, but he pioneered what is typical of most street photographers. Going out and nailing that one shot that just captrues a particular moment in time. It takes a lot of practice. However, no matter how good you are at recognizing and capturing that moment, there are times when the world doesn't conspire to help you get the shot that you want. For example, I was here at this intersection, and I saw this bicyclist coming along. I could see that he was going to make a right turn. So I thought, oh…

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