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As I've come to understand newspaper photography, one of the things I've had to get over is the anxious feeling of taking pictures of people I don't know. Long story short, in my opinion it's more a matter of just learning to take the shots without thinking much about it.

Shooting events like fairs and parades (pictured, a mohawked Irishman during the 2009 Syracuse St. Patrick's Day Parade) helped ease me into the feeling of pointing a lens in the right direction without feeling insecure. For me, with a little bit of practice it has become more so a matter of looking for the right shots than worrying if I should take them when I see them.

Photographer Clay Enos has a new, on-the-job video about street photography, during which he demonstrates setting up what looks like a basic seamless paper backdrop on a shaded area of the street (for even light, as Enos explains).

Then Enos stops passersbys on the street and uses a bit of charisma to get people, including an unsuspecting UPS driver that turns out to be an interesting subject on the fly, to say "Cheese!"

Photography geeks out there will note that Enos didn't use flash (to the strobists of the world's chagrin), and packed light with only a 50mm lens (have to say from personal experience, even a halfway-decent 50mm goes very far.) Enos shot the little project in black and white, a stylistic trend that the digital photography world is only just starting to miss.

Watch the video of Clay Enos photography tactics here: http://www.wired.com/video/street-portrait-photo-how-to/27609165001

Link courtesy of Wired.com