Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > to me it means > that they are not *responding* to the camera's presence unnaturally. > Like the photo I posted yesterday, of the child and granny ... they > were quite aware I had a camera pointed at them but they were not > posing for the camera. > > Many of my favorite photos of people were made candidly this way ... > a connection between photographer and subject was made, but without > direct influence on the subject's ability to be natural and unposed. > > There are of course many appealing photos taken without the subjects' > being aware of the camera too ... One of the favorites of this genre > that I've made was this one, in San Francisco: > > http://www.gdgphoto.com/paw-2005/source/40.html
I agree with this. I liked your shot of the kid and granny and the one above is nicely done too. -- Christian http://photography.skofteland.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
