Shooting RAW Street Photography with an Action Cam: 3 Creative Techniques Worth Stealing

Shooting RAW Street Photography with an Action Cam: 3 Creative Techniques Worth Stealing

Most of my work lives inside Photoshop. I’ve built actions that compress hours of post-production into a single keystroke, and I’ll happily geek out about batch processing over a cup of coffee. But every now and then something lands in my feed that reminds me the best post-production starts before you ever open Lightroom. In this Pierre T. Lambert tutorial, he takes the DJI Osmo Action — a small, wide-angle action camera not typically associated with serious stills work — out onto city streets and challenges himself to make compelling photographs with it.

Stop Treating ISO Like a Setting You Choose — Let It Work For You

Stop Treating ISO Like a Setting You Choose — Let It Work For You

I’ve spent fifteen years in commercial studios where the light is controlled, repeatable, and exactly where you put it. So when I started taking my camera outside, the constantly shifting light genuinely caught me off guard. Not because I didn’t understand exposure, but because I kept rebuilding it from scratch every few minutes like some kind of Groundhog Day nightmare. Adjust ISO, check the meter, tweak again. Meanwhile the shot I actually wanted had already moved on.