On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 00:42:34 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is another shot from the recent NorCal PDML meet. > > I don't normally take people shots, as in people that I don't know in public > places, or I take very few. I took more than usual at our meet. > > This one was not shot at the optimal moment. A father and son were on the > bridge looking into the water at the goldfish below -- a great father/son > shot. > Not the one I got, though. Just as I was thinking, "What a neat shot -- hey, > you do have a camera, stupid." the boy moved to the other side of the bridge. > (You can also see them in the background of one of Bruce's shots.) However, I > think it still came out pretty well. Not great, but not too bad.
I'll echo what Shel sort of said yesterday. "Stop putting your photography down!" Don't worry about the shots you missed. If you're going to shoot people (who, as you say, "move around"), you'll ~always~ miss ~something~. You can't worry about it. You grab what you grab, and it either works (and you proudly show it to people), or it doesn't (and it never sees the light of day <g>). But, really, this shot is just fine as it is. It neither adds nor distracts from it to tell us what all we missed, but the undertone seems to be "I'm a lousy street shooter, this is second rate compared to what someone who knows what their doing would've gotten." And that's just not the case. It's a fine shot as is; I rather like it, in fact. > The father stared into the water so long, I figured he wasn't just admiring > the fish, that maybe he also had troubles... ergo the title... > > http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/parent.htm > > Comments welcome, of course. > > Also, I am not really sure how you people shooters do it, because they MOVE. That's what makes it so much fun! <g> cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
