Ideas, inspiration + insights to use as Challenges, Assignments, and Prompts!
GET THE STREET PHOTOGRAPHY PLAYBOOKThe Street Photography Playbook
⭐️ Perfect for all budding street photographers or anyone with a rusty shutter finger looking for a mojo power boost, an escape from their comfort zone, or some fresh inspiration for a project. Inside you'll find pages of contemporary street photos with bite-sized yet intel-rich insights, tips, and techniques to teach you how to get the shot. ⭐️
Available in digital format + as a pocket-sized book (UK Amazon #1 Best Seller)
Are you ready to change the way you see the street?
The Street Photography Playbook is both a digital resource and a pocket-sized treasure trove of creative street photography ideas to use as challenges, assignments, or prompts.
Perfect for all budding street photographers or anyone with a rusty shutter finger looking for a mojo power boost, an escape from their comfort zone, or some fresh inspo for a project.
Inside you'll find pages of contemporary street photos with bite-sized yet intel-rich insights, tips, and techniques to teach you how to get the shot.
This is NOT a coffee table book.
This playbook is designed to be thrown into your camera bag or stuffed into your back pocket. It’s the perfect size to add your own 6x4” prints between the pages as you work through the ideas. Scribble in it, highlight sentences, and turn the corners of the pages! OR you simply access the digital version via your mobile browser or through an app.*
*DEPENDING ON WHETHER YOU CHOOSE THE DIGITAL OR PAPER VERSION
Each picture inside is just one interpretation of an idea, what's yours?
I made this Playbook!
Hello, my name is Polly Rusyn — I’m a pro-photographer and street photography teacher. My street photography has been awarded and exhibited internationally at a number of street photography festivals, and published in various magazines. I give talks about street photography for top brands such as Nat Geo Traveller and Fujifilm. I have contributed to books including 'Women Street Photographers' (Prestel) and 'The Travel Photographer's Way' (Bradt). And most recently in 2021 I was a Finalist in the Series Category at the London Street Photography Festival.
I am obsessed with street photography and love to reverse engineer great pictures to figure out why they work. My superpower is being able to explain things in concise ways so that you can start applying ideas to your street photography straight away, and I'm so excited to share my insights with you in this awesome digital playbook!
"Everything is learnable."
"Everybody takes a picture, but taking a picture is very different from making a photograph. A photograph is something that has an idea, that you give shape to, whereas a picture has no consciousness."
— JOEL MEYEROWITZ
The DIGITAL version includes:
🔥 11 categories of ideas-packed inspiration
GEOMETRY, COLOUR, SHADOWS, SILHOUETTES, GRAPHICS, GLASS, ANONYMOUS, WEATHER, DETAIL, GESTURES + THINGS
🔥 49 ideas across categories
Illustrated with examples of contemporary street photography (made by me)
🔥 Short-attention-span-friendly insights
Bite-size explainers that contain invaluable insights behind what makes a great photo along with ideas of what to think about and how to approach taking a shot(from an experienced street photographer — yes, it’s me again!)
🎁BONUS #01 Photo Deconstruction Files
5 case studies that reveal 9 photo 'contact sheet' from each scene / The thought process behind the photo / Notes on the compositional elements
🎁BONUS #02 Project Starter Pack
5 awesome project suggestions to help kickstart your own imagination and creativity, and help generate ideas of series or sets of photos.
🎁BONUS #02 Exposure Cheatsheet
This introduction (like no other!) to exposure will give you that all important foundation for understanding how the pesky exposure triangle works.
📌 Full disclosure you will be offered the partner Playbook (The Photo Composition Playbook) at a reduced rate at checkout. Shhhhh! Don't tell!)
BUY DIGITAL VERSION £20The PRINTED version includes:
🔥 10 categories of ideas-packed inspiration
GEOMETRY, COLOUR, SHADOWS, SILHOUETTES, GRAPHICS, GLASS, ANONYMOUS, WEATHER, DETAIL, GESTURES
🔥 44 ideas across categories
Illustrated with examples of contemporary street photography (made by me)
🔥 Short-attention-span-friendly insights
Bite-size explainers that contain invaluable insights behind what makes a great photo along with ideas of what to think about and how to approach taking a shot(from an experienced street photographer — yes, it’s me again!)
📘 The advantage of a book is that you can through it in your bag, flick through it and turn the corners of the pages!
🌳 The book (available at Amazon) is print-on-demand, which means no advance copies have been printed and that way it's kinder on the planet.
🎁 To get your copy head to your nearest Amazon website and search for my name (Polly Rusyn) and you will see my books! If you are in the UK hit the button below.
£10.99
(The price can fluctuate because Amazon uses dynamic pricing)
📌 The Photo Composition Playbook, which is the perfect partner to The Street Photography Playbook is also available at Amazon.
GO TO AMAZON.CO.UKDISCLAIMER - The photos you get as a result of this Playbook are very dependant on your overall street photography skills and imagination — all of which is learnable by the way! This Playbook is designed to help train your observation, not to define what you photograph. It’s been created to inspire you, not to limit you. Use it as a tool and a way to warm up your brain and tune your eyes. Snapping something isn’t enough to make a good photo, you still have to consider the light, the composition, the moment, the story, and all the other elements in the frame. This Playbook isn't a substitute for in-person training but it will 100% give you plenty of ideas, insights, and inspiration to get you started on one of the best creative adventures you've ever been on.
