Welcome to the start of a new series called "The Photographer's Toolkit". In this series we'll be providing you with a guide to start your journey properly as a photographer, taking you on a journey through simple mindset changes, learning how to boost creativity and bring those photos to a new level.

In today's episode, we'll be starting with creating the right mindset. We'll be covering the foundations such as how our perception on creativity influences our direction, how to create the right environment to succeed and strategies that genuinely work for your brain!We hope you enjoy this episode, make sure to leave a comment and drop us a follow so you don't miss out on regular weekly and monthly uploads.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro

00:48 What do we mean by the right Mindset?

01:06 Start with your Perception

04:44 Creating the right Environment for Growth

06:44 Setting Goals for Photography

08:58 Expectation is weighing you down

13:29 Conclusion

15:55 Outro

TR Street Mag, hosted by photographer Tommy Regan aims to provide street photographers with valuable insights, helping them to refine their craft. The show aims to make you feel seen and heard, allowing you to focus on creativity and purposeful art. Whether you choose Analog or Digital camera gear, there is value here for everyone.

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Background Music Credits: "Podcast Lo-fi Music" by Denis PavlovTrack: https://pixabay.com/music/beats-podcast-lo-fi-music-205515/

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In today's episode, we delve into 'the decisive moment' in photography and discuss a famous British female photographer who managed to successfully repeat this technique.

Jane was a world class professional at knowing 'when' and 'how' to replicate that inner calling. We also cover how to slow down and be more intentional using different techniques.

We hope you enjoy this episode, make sure to leave a comment and drop us a follow so you don't miss out on regular weekly and monthly uploads.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro

01:20 What is the 'Decisive Moment'

03:54 Challenges

05:15 Being Patient

06:20 Jane Bown

07:30 Her Work

08:14 The Feeling

09:54 Deciding

10:43 Connection

11:49 Jane taught us this

13:08 Replicating the moment

14:08 It's not the gear

14:51 Final thoughts

16:57 Outro

TR Street Mag, hosted by photographer Tommy Regan aims to provide street photographers with valuable insights, helping them to refine their craft. The show aims to make you feel seen and heard, allowing you to focus on creativity and purposeful art. Whether you choose Analog or Digital camera gear, there is value here for everyone.

Follow us on Social Media: ⁠https://linktr.ee/trstreetmag

Background Music Credits:

"Podcast Lo-fi Music" by Denis Pavlov.

Track: https://pixabay.com/music/beats-podcast-lo-fi-music-205515/

Artist: https://pixabay.com/users/denis-pavlov-music-35636692/

Using this technique will not only improve your style, performance and hit rate but it'll also make you enjoy your photography, at least it's made it street photography more enjoyable for me!

In this episode of TR Street Mag, we discuss the simple but effective method to make street photography more enjoyable while improving your skill level without needing to buy new gear or thinking there's some secret formula.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro

01:00 My Process

01:24 Working in Confinement

02:44 Choose your Environment

03:13 Observing a Scene

04:28 Research

05:04 Anticipating the Moment

05:59 Notice the Present Moment

06:44 Let your Creativity Shine

07:27 Everything falling into Place

08:20 My Final Thoughts

09:17 Outro

TR Street Mag, hosted by photographer Tommy Regan aims to provide street photographers with valuable insights, helping them to refine their craft. The show aims to make you feel seen and heard, allowing you to focus on creativity and purposeful art. Whether you choose Analog or Digital camera gear, there is value here for everyone.

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Is it really hard starting Street Photography as a beginner?

Today, I interview a lifelong friend of mine Max who is a novice photographer. We discuss the challenges of starting street photography as a beginner, ways to inspire creativity and a live workshop demonstrating helpful tips most beginners struggle to understand when first turning on a camera.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro

00:37 Episode Overview 

00:57 Welcoming Max

01:34 Max's Photography Background

02:21 How do we know each other?

04:11 Beginner Gear Setup and Experiences so far

05:54 Inspirations

08:47 What drives your Ambition?

11:40 What are Dutch Angles?

12:39 Advice for New Photographers

15:50 Live Photography Workshop

16:24 Using Different Camera Focus Modes

17:58 Setting White Balance

19:20 Workshop Q&A

20:15 Outro

TR Street Mag, hosted by photographer Tommy Regan aims to provide street photographers with valuable insights, helping them to refine their craft. The show aims to make you feel seen and heard, allowing you to focus on creativity and purposeful art. Whether you choose Analog or Digital camera gear, there is value here for everyone.

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You should really know the why behind every photo before you even think about clicking your shutter.

In this episode, we discuss the core essence of Street Photography, why being intentional helps you perfect your craft and understanding the importance of storytelling and building your own narrative.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro

00:58 Think about the Why

02:33 Using a Documentary Approach

03:41 Learning to be Present

06:03 Understanding Why

08:52 Becoming intentional in the Present

09:41 Making the boring seem interesting

11:21 How to Stand Out

12:23 Taking a Minimalist Approach

13:40 Building your Skillset

15:03 Outro

TR Street Mag, hosted by photographer Tommy Regan aims to provide street photographers with valuable insights, helping them to refine their craft. The show aims to make you feel seen and heard, allowing you to focus on creativity and purposeful art. Whether you choose Analog or Digital camera gear, there is value here for everyone.

Follow us on Social Media: ⁠https://linktr.ee/trstreetmag

In today’s deep dive we uncover: which apertures are best to achieve creamy bokeh, which characteristics should you be focusing on when creating blurry photos and what do we actually mean by bokeh?

CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro

00:55 What is Bokeh? 

03:37 Creamy Bokeh in Portraiture

06:51 Texture

08:31 Urban Landscape Bokeh

11:31 Bokeh in film cameras?

17:12 Which Aperture suits bokeh best?

18:18 Outro

TR Street Mag, hosted by photographer Tommy Regan aims to provide street photographers with valuable insights, helping them to refine their craft. The show aims to make you feel seen and heard, allowing you to focus on creativity and purposeful art. Whether you choose Analog or Digital camera gear, there is value here for everyone.

Follow us on Social Media: ⁠https://linktr.ee/trstreetmag

In today's bite sized episode, we discuss apple's latest MacBook Air M5 and it's the first time the Air genuinely feels like it has Pro capabilities as an all round laptop. This is the perfect on the go setup. It's more affordable than the Pro version. You get the brand new M5 chip, and for a street photographer, it might just be the only machine that you actually need.

TR Street Mag, hosted by photographer Tommy Regan aims to provide street photographers with valuable insights, helping them to refine their craft. The show aims to make you feel seen and heard, allowing you to focus on creativity and purposeful art. Whether you choose Analog or Digital camera gear, there is value here for everyone.

Follow us on Social Media: ⁠https://linktr.ee/trstreetmag

This week we uncover: the real truth behind the Instagram algorithm in the photography world, new strategies for growing with still imagery, the secret fall of AI and photo manipulation and finally why this new revival benefits us as raw street photographers.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro

01:18 Overview

01:47 Did Instagram save the street photography community?

03:14 How do we adapt as street photographers?

05:31 The fall of Photoshop manipulation and AI.

09:26 How to repurpose video features for reach.

12:50 What does this mean moving forward? 

18:00 Outro

TR Street Mag, hosted by photographer Tommy Regan aims to provide street photographers with valuable insights, helping them to refine their craft. The show aims to make you feel seen and heard, allowing you to focus on creativity and purposeful art. Whether you choose Analog or Digital camera gear, there is value here for everyone.

Follow us on Social Media: ⁠https://linktr.ee/trstreetmag

Street photography suits grain more than we think, and by allowing our cameras to work with noise rather than against it, we allow ourselves to push our creativity rather than boxing it in.

In this episode we discuss the differences between fine grain and digital noise, why bumping your ISO up creates more decisive moments and pushing your camera past its limits.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro

00:29 Grain vs Digital Noise

02:51 Fringing and Defringing

03:54 Decisive Moments

06:05 Be Conservative with Denoise

09:40 Trial and Error

13:00 Outro

TR Street Mag, hosted by photographer Tommy Regan aims to provide street photographers with valuable insights, helping them to refine their craft. The show aims to make you feel seen and heard, allowing you to focus on creativity and purposeful art. Whether you choose Analog or Digital camera gear, there is value here for everyone.

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In this episode, I discuss the history of the OM1, from it's original release in 1972, a famous SLR for it's size, features and slim design which changed the game for film photographers. We also dive into Olympus's later releases like the Micro Four Thirds system OM1 and the key differences between the past and present.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro

00:36 The OM1n SLR

03:33 Main Characteristics

07:36 The OM1 M43

09:40 Main Characteristics

14:06 My Thoughts

15:32 Yoshihasi Maitani

17:03 Outro

TR Street Mag, hosted by photographer Tommy Regan aims to provide street photographers with valuable insights, helping them to refine their craft. The show aims to make you feel seen and heard, allowing you to focus on creativity and purposeful art. Whether you choose Analog or Digital camera gear, there is value here for everyone.

Follow us on Social Media: ⁠https://linktr.ee/trstreetmag