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A Video Tutorial + A Word on What's to Come

May 17, 2019

So, I turns out I’ve been long dormant on my own personal blog. It’s not that I’m not busy—EYExplore, the company which I have been running for the past 4 years, has been growing and maturing steadily. Our photography workshops have multiplied and improved. And we have taken on a few auteur photographers to create unique and personal photo adventures for our clients. Finally, we have expanded to our first overseas location: London! How exciting!

However, on my personal front, I’ve let the ideas for essays and tutorials for this blog simply pile up. It’s my goal to start publishing them here. The next one is nearing completion and will appear here very soon. I never planned to blog on a regular basis, but when ideas appear, I should write them up and share them here. And that is something I have been neglecting. This blog is meant in a way to be my own personal meditation on photographer—perhaps more so than a set of prescriptions for others, the musings on this blog are reminders for myself.

For now, I want to show the second photo editing tutorial video I created for the EYExplore YouTube channel. Please enjoy and feel free to ask any questions in the comments here or on the video page.

More to come soon!

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To consider how to do street photography ethically, it’s important to first define its value. Otherwise, if street photography has no value, then any questions of ethics should end with simply: just don’t take the photo. So, what is the value of street photography? I think there are two main benefits, or categories of benefits: the personal and the social. I cannot speak for other people, but for me street photography has immense personal value. It is a form of meditation or praxis, that allows me to observe, understand, and appreciate the world.

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It goes without saying that if you want to get better at something you have to practice. Simple, right? The thing is, that unlike more structured pursuits such as sports or music, the idea of practicing street photography seems a bit hard to wrap one’s head around. But before we get into that, we should establish the best methodology for practice in in general.

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Beyond Mere Composition in Photography
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There is a wealth of information on the internet about composition—endless blog posts about visual rules, geometrical concepts, and photos with all kinds of lines and shapes drawn over them to the prove the point. But all of this information focuses on the ‘what’ of composition rather than the ‘why.’ A photographer must stop and ask themselves: ‘why even bother following visual rules?’

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A Journey on the Rooftops of Tokyo
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What drives me up the stairs—ten eleven twelve flights at a time—is curiosity. I harbor a desire to discover unusual beauty in a chaotic urban landscape. To me, the rooftops are the ‘final frontier’ in Tokyo. The streets are crawling with photographers, but few venture off the ground and into the concrete canopy—but I want to see what I can create up there. The lights and vibrations of the rooftops weave images in my mind—images which I can call my own. Obtaining a unique perspective in photography is like finding a pearl in a sea of glass beads. The chance to glimpse uncommon sights is intoxicating. It is this pursuit of a narrative individual to myself which keeps me coming back. On the roofs, I find my own voice.

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Keystone Essays

2021

2021 Oct 10 The Ethics of Street Photography

2021 Sep 26 Values in Photography and Art

2020

2020 Jun 20 Street Photography, Mindfulness, Zen, and Flow

2020 Jun 13 Learning How to See

2020 Jun 6 The Content Diet for Creativity

2020 May 9 10 Photographic Fallacies

2020 May 2 Elements of Street Photography

2020 Apr 25 You Don’t Need a Camera to be a Photographer at Heart

2020 Apr 11 A Quest for Authenticity

2019

2019 Jun 15 I Don’t Care About Cameras (Mostly)

2019 Jun 8 How to Get Better at Street Photography

2019 Jun 1 Optimizing Your Night Street Photography

2019 May 19 Beyond Mere Composition in Photography

2017

2017 Sep 3 Becoming a Hermit in the Woods

2017 Jul 14 A Journey on the Rooftops of Tokyo

2016

2016 Dec 7 Positivity in Street Photography

2016 Mar 19 A Photograph is an Experience

2013

2013 Nov 29 A Series of Decisions

2013 Jun 5 Candid vs. Interactive Street Photography

2013 Apr 2 Mastering Manual Focus

“Creativity is the product of curiosity and rigor.”