Most of it is crap.

Most advice omits the single most important factor: mindset. If you are nervous and trying to be inconspicuous you will stick out like a sore thumb.

Moreover, do you want to be inconspicuous? Why? Are you ashamed of being there?

Perhaps you are equating candid photography with street photography. Well, don’t.

The reaction to being photographed is a valid subject of photography.

A lot of my pictures have eye contact. In fact, I seek it out. Some people don’t like that, but I do. It’s a moment of connection. That’s what I’m after.

Some aspiring street photographers are afraid of getting into confrontations, or even getting hit.

Well, good. You should be afraid of getting hit. if you’re not afraid of that, you’re an idiot, or possibly an ice hockey player.

However, this is not the same as being afraid of photographing on the street.

You have to lose that, or you will simply be taking photographs of your own inability to loosen up.

There is only one way to lose that fear, and that’s to confront it.