Thanks for the good advices. Best regards, Manuel
On 09/03/31 23:21, "Bob W" <p...@web-options.com> wrote: >> >> I liked very much of the two photos, but I'd like to ask something. >> >> These kind of photography attracts me a lot, but I usually >> tend to be a bit >> embarrassed to point the camera at someone in order to catch >> the moment, as >> you did, sometimes because If I am going to be quick enough >> it seems I am >> steeling that picture, other times if I wait a bit to much >> they look at me >> and a lot of things can happen. How do you manage to do these >> beautiful and >> touching photos. >> >> And this question it's not just for you because some of the >> guys here in the >> list have lovely photos of moments like those. >> >> Best regards, >> Manuel > > it takes practice. Sometimes people are just too absorbed to notice what > you're doing. Other times they notice, but let you have the shot. And of > course, quite often they don't want you to take the shot so, depending on > the situation, you either walk away or grab it anyway. > > Some photographers can make themselves invisible somehow. In fact, the more > you take this kind of photo the more easily you can make yourself invisible. > I think it is something to do with confidence, observation and knowing when > to raise the camera. > > John Malcolm Brinnin wrote a memoir of the time he spent travelling around > the US with Henri Cartier-Bresson. In it he describes how HCB took about 20 > photographs of one woman just walking from one room to another, with HCB, > and the woman didn't even notice. He also describes them going to a gambling > den - "For more than an hour he photographed the play at pool tables and > slot machines, working so unobtrusively that his subjects seemed unaware of > him or, if they were, unperturbed by the intrusion of a presence so patently > bland". > > So the secret of good photography is this: be patently bland. > > Bob > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
