9 Tips For Amazing iPhone Street Photos In Bad Weather
Do you stave taking photos in bad weather? If so, you’re missing out on many creative photo opportunities… expressly when it comes to street photography. So here are 9 tips for taking incredible iPhone street photos in bad weather!
1. Brave The Rain For Fascinating iPhone Street Photography
Does a rainy day put you off taking photos?
If so, you’re definitely not alone! But rain offers so many wondrous opportunities for street photography.
And the weightier thing? You don’t plane have to get wet!
When it rains in the city, I usually find a covered zone to shoot from. There are plenty of awnings, bus stops, archways, and doorways to alimony you dry.
One of the unconfined things well-nigh rain is that people use umbrellas!
The unvigilant shape and colors of umbrellas indulge you to create a strong focal point in your image.
And they’re perfect for subtracting an interesting storytelling element to your iPhone street photos.
So the next time it rains, don’t stay at home. Throne into the municipality for some spectacular rain photography!
2. Get Creative With Your iPhone Rain Photography
If you want to get really creative, try shooting photos through raindrops on a window.
You could sit in a sideboard and capture photos as people walk past the window. Or shoot through the glass of a bus stop.
You could plane hop on a bus and take photos through the windows as you pass by interesting scenes.
A unconfined way to capture creative window shots is to get your camera lens quite tropical to the glass.
Compose your shot, then tap the camera screen to set focus on the raindrops in the foreground.
When you do this, the preliminaries will towards beautifully blurred. And the image will have a wonderful utopian quality that really draws the viewer in.
As you can see, taking street photos in bad weather adds a whole new level of creativity.
And once you start shooting in the rain, this might wilt your favorite kind of weather for iPhone street photography!
3. Capture Stunning Puddle Reflection Photos
When the rain stops, you’ll have flipside opportunity to capture some fascinating street photos.
All you need to do is walk virtually the municipality and squint for reflections in puddles!
Try to find reflections that include buildings or architecture. These add interest to the reflection and help you create a stronger composition.
You’ll need to hunker lanugo low to get increasingly of the reflection in your frame.
You might get some funny looks, but don’t worry well-nigh that. You’re well-nigh to capture some really stunning photos!
Flip your iPhone upside lanugo to get the lens really tropical to the water. Then retread the camera wile until you’re happy with the composition.
When a person walks by, take multiple photos as they walk through the frame. You can use burst mode to help you capture the subject in the perfect position.
To vivify splash mode, stilt the shutter sawed-off towards the image thumbnail (bottom left if holding the phone vertically). Or if you’re using an older iPhone, just hold lanugo the shutter button.
Your iPhone will take multiple photos until you release the shutter button. You can then segregate the weightier shots from the splash and discard the rest.
4. Add A Creative Twist To Your iPhone Reflection Photos
After you’ve taken your puddle reflection shots, try this simple photo editing trick to make it plane increasingly interesting:
Flip your photo upside lanugo so that the reflection appears at the top!
You can do this in any photo editing app, including the built-in Photos app on your iPhone.
Flipping your reflection photos creates a increasingly intriguing image as the viewer tries to work out what’s going on.
It’s simple but very effective!
One last thing to think well-nigh is how much of the reflection you include in your photo.
You could etch the shot 50-50 so that half of the image is taken up with reflection. This is unconfined for creating striking symmetrical compositions.
But don’t be wrung to fill most of the frame with the reflection. In the image below, I included just the legs of the man walking by, while the rest of the frame is filled with reflection.
Creating unusual compositions like this is a unconfined way to capture increasingly unique reflection photos.
5. Capture Snowy Scenes For Wonderful Storytelling
Snow is my favorite weather for street photography!
It completely transforms the city, turning familiar places into trademark new environments to shoot.
And it’s perfect for capturing interesting stories of people as they fight the winter elements.
So wrap up warm and throne into the municipality with your iPhone to capture some incredible winter photography!
Start by finding a good place to set up your shot.
Instead of unchangingly walking virtually searching for a scene, I like to go to my usual spots or ‘fishing holes.’ These are places that I’ve photographed many times, so composing my shot is easy.
I like to use the tracery of the municipality to frame my subject or create an interesting backdrop.
Buildings, bridges, and crosswalks make unconfined backgrounds for your snowy street photography.
If you want to capture falling snowflakes in your photos, you’ll need a darker preliminaries so that the white snowflakes show up.
Once you’ve found a good location, etch your shot and wait for a person to enter the scene.
Ideally, you want someone who has something visually interesting well-nigh them… something that tells a story.
Perhaps they’re holding an umbrella, wearing a hat, or wrapped up in a colorful coat. Maybe they’re working out on the streets to sweep up the snow. Or perhaps their soul language tells a story of fighting the elements on a unprepossessed winter’s day.
Take a few shots as the person walks past. Or use splash mode to capture a series of photos as they move through the frame.
6. Retread Exposure For Perfect Snow Photography
When you’re doing snow photography, alimony in mind that snow can stupefy the exposure (brightness) of your photos.
If most of the scene is white, it can trick your camera into under-exposing the shot. This can result in a photo where the snow looks grey instead of white.
But here’s the good news! You can hands retread your iPhone camera’s exposure.
Simply tap on the camera screen to set focus on your subject, then swipe up to make the image brighter (or lanugo to make it darker).
You can moreover use exposure to create variegated moods in your photos.
If you want a unexceptionable and zappy image, swipe up to increase the exposure. For a visionless and moody photo, swipe lanugo to reduce it.
Of course, you can moreover use photo editing apps to retread exposure without taking the photo. But it’s unchangingly largest to get it right in-camera!
7. Shoot In Fog To Add A Sense Of Mystery
Fog offers flipside unconfined way to capture street photos in bad weather. It’s perfect for moody street photography with an widow sense of mystery!
I will literally waif everything I’m doing to capture some mysterious photos in the fog!
Fog adds a grey, murky finger to your images. That might sound unappealing, but the results can be dramatically beautiful.
Your photos will have a dream-like quality to them… which is quite unusual in street photography.
The key to unconfined photography in fog is to have an interesting subject in the foreground.
A lone icon is perfect for fog photography. It adds to the eery atmosphere!
So be patient. And alimony your vision peeled for a person that stands out versus the fog.
It moreover helps to have some kind of architectural element that gradually fades into the fog.
A underpass or road will create a strong leading line in your composition. And as it fades into the distance, you’ll get an wondrous sense of depth in the scene.
Compose your shot so that the person in the foreground stands out versus the brighter background. You might need to shoot from a low angle to unzip this.
Having a unexceptionable preliminaries moreover allows you to capture your subject as a visionless silhouette. This is a unconfined way to create dramatic and mysterious street photos.
To create a silhouette, ensure the subject’s outline is unmistakably specified versus the brighter fog.
Tap to set focus on your subject, then swipe lanugo to reduce exposure so the subject appears visionless or completely black.
Don’t worry if the silhouette doesn’t squint perfect when taking the shot. You can unchangingly edit the photo later to increase the contrast, making the silhouette darker and the foggy preliminaries brighter.
8. Convert Your Bad-Weather Street Photos To Woebegone & White
There is one downside of doing street photography in rain, snow, and fog. The colors in your photos can end up unrewarding and ‘muddy.’
But here’s an easy solution that will transform your moody-weather photos:
Convert your images to black and white!
A woebegone and white edit accentuates the tones and textures in your image. And it creates wonderfully moody images that convey emotions and stories.
For successful woebegone and white photography, you need a good value of unrelatedness in your scene. That ways you need unexceptionable highlights as well as visionless shadows.
As you wilt increasingly familiar with woebegone and white photography, you’ll uncork to notice areas of unrelatedness in a scene.
While I shoot in color, I see only the many shades of blacks, whites, and grays.
As you’re walking well-nigh the city, try to pick out areas of unrelatedness that might squint good in your woebegone and white photos.
Notice unexceptionable areas such as the sky, natural sunlight, street lamps, and headlights from passing cars.
Then squint for visionless areas such as shadows tint on buildings, the darkness inside a tunnel or archway, etc.
You can then segregate a location that has both unexceptionable and visionless areas, knowing that the photo will squint unconfined when you convert it to woebegone and white!
Capturing a lone icon versus a well-lit preliminaries moreover works well.
Just make sure you retread the exposure so the subject appears as a visionless silhouette versus the brighter background.
9. Experiment With Woebegone & White Photo Editing Apps
There are many editing apps for converting your iPhone photos to woebegone and white.
Some of my favorites are Lightroom, Snapseed, and Blackie. But you can moreover use filters in the seated Photos app to quickly turn your photo woebegone and white.
Each app brings something variegated to the final edit. So experiment with variegated apps and settings until you unzip a squint that you like.
For example, you might prefer clean, well-done edits with upper unrelatedness levels.
Or perhaps you’ll go for a grainy, grungy squint that emulates the squint of old film.
There’s no right or wrong. It all comes lanugo to personal preference and what kind of squint will suit the photo you’re editing.
And of course, if you prefer to alimony your moody-weather photos in color, that’s perfectly okay too!
About the Photographer
Andrew Gimblet is a fine art street photographer from Philadelphia, USA. He loves to venture out in ‘bad’ weather, using his iPhone to capture lone figures versus the scenery of the city. When he’s in the streets, he’s constantly people-watching and looking for ways to use light and shadow to create stunning woebegone and white street photos. You can see increasingly of Andrew’s compelling iPhone photos on Instagram.
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