Hi Keith, There are many ways to adjust the shadows without making the faces or other areas darker.
As for your comments about making the photo, well, the situation wasn't quite like my approaching them and asking for and taking a pic. My GF and I were there for a while, talking, chatting, enjoying the sunshine, and then I made a few pics. I don't "intrude" where I'm not wanted. These fellows had no problem with our being there. We were just walking by, said hello, commented on the nice day and the conversation went from there. IOW, we were welcomed to spend time with them. Carol, my GF, ended up chatting with one of the fellows for quite a while, and, in fact, when we went to leave a couple of them suggested that we come back again, which Carol did, by herself, a couple of days later while I was occupied with something else a few streets over. The idea that one must follow a certain protocol when photographing people on the street is such crap. People are people, and most like to engage in conversation and passing the time of day. As a person (not as a photographer) I have to understand where I'm welcome and where I'm not. To just arbitrarily avoid any situation where one *might not* be welcome is foolish. To *intrude*, of course, is just as foolish. If you were walking down your street, in your neighborhood, and came across a couple of well-dressed people standing around talking, would you not say hello as you passed by? Might you not reply to a response? Have you never passed the time of day with a stranger, perhaps someone waiting for a bus, or shared a table at a busy restaurant with someone you didn't know? Like I said, people are people, and we were just being human. Shel > [Original Message] > From: Keith Whaley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I would not have approached a "superior number" of ANY race of people, > on a street corner, with bottles "concealed" in paper, just "hanging > around..." in a rather seedy area of town. I'm intruding. Getting in > their space/place/time. Many folks don't LIKE that sort of interference... > One of the elements/protocols of street photography I see discussed from > time to time. > One way of saying it might be...a ticklish situation. > I have no wish to interfere with their day, just make an image or two of > what I see. > Would they misunderstand and think I'm being critical of them? Would > they care? When I ask them if they mind if I take the shot, and they > say, "Why do you want a picture of US, white boy?" what do I say that > they wouldn't take umbrage at? > > Your big question... my very simple answer... > > keith > > >>[Original Message] > >>From: Keith Whaley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > >>P.S. & BTW, I like the shot. Don't know if *I* would have taken that > >>shot back in '69... <g> > > > > > > > > > >
