Well done Christine, maybe you should shoot without your glasses more often
! ; -)
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: GESO Street Portraits
In a message dated 2/13/2009 6:10:20 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
Hi Everyone:
1) The point of this exercise was to shoot closer & engage with people
more, which really doesn't come naturally to me. For the bit of street
stuff I've done, I have used the DA* 50 - 135mm, which obviously allows
for
greater distance between the camera & subject--as you know--sorry about
stating the obvious here :-). I found shoot close really hard at
first--and
I was so nervous, but folks who were out and about today were cheerful &
very willing. This helped.
2) There's a bit of irony to this shoot: I had to kill 2 hours on the
street because I had to wait for new prescription lenses to be mounted on
my
eye glass frames, which left me with no glasses! It was really
disconcerting to shoot without glasses. Thank the gods for autofocus
:-).
My distance vision is not what it used to be, but it's not that bad, but
if
I had had to manual focus, there's no way I would have hit the focus.
http://faculty.ccc.edu/caguila/Shooting%20Closer%20Street%20Portraits/index.ht
ml
Comments/critique welcome.
Cheers, Christine
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Not bad at all, Christine. The last I'd toss. I like 2 and 3 (the angle
and
ceiling on 3 really makes it). I like 2 because she is not looking at
you.
And of course, 5, especially because his nose is running.
When I shoot people on the "street," not often, though I will be doing
more,
I try to have them not notice me. There are two main schools of thought:
not
noticing, and engaging and talking to. Shel, not on list anymore, was big
on
engaging. So one suggestion I have, having watched him work and having
seen
a lot of his shots, is try a bit more for context next time --
environmental
portraits. Tell a story. Engage in conversation if that is your approach,
but
continue shooting more than one frame as you talk and try for a bit more
context. The longer you talk and shoot and act more interested in the
conversation than the shots, the more relaxed and natural your subject
becomes.
That .02 advice is based strictly on my viewing of others and their
photos,
not on my taking them.
HTH, Marnie :-)
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