In defense of long lenses (and in a way in defense of my photo) I would
add that longer lenses have a way of working around other people in a
imperfect shooting environment. For example in my photo I was trying to
crop out the boy's brother who was drawing on the asphalt on all fours
which would of been viable with a shorter lens. I could of moved
froward to a position where a 50mm would of worked but that would of
meant stepping over people in front of me and probably breaking the
boy's focus on the dancers. Going back to my original comment about
whether the long lens excludes my photo and many others from being part
of the street photography genre I think I would exclude at least my
photo from this genre because of the lens. It seems to me that street
photography has more to do with the personality of the person(s)
photographed than thiner interactions with the world around them. After
thinking about it a while it seems to me my photo is more nature
photography. I don't think I captured the personality of any of the
people in my photo, rather I captured a scene that integrates the
interactions between them. But then again that is just my lowly opinion.
-david
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 6/27/2005 2:02:42 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 15:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the Porto shots, it is amusing that in this one the subject has
spotted
the sniper.
http://x64.com/joaquim/photo/photo03/index-Pages/Image19.html
The father hasn't, he kept talking to the woman woman on the left, the
kid I don't know.
I was talking about the kid. He definitely made the camera. Can't fool a
kid.
Regards,
Sonny
http://www.sonc.com
Natchitoches, Louisiana
Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane
égalité, liberté, crawfish
