Wow, Christine, I'm impressed with your energy in breaking out of a rut! My favorites are 2, 4, and 5.
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Fri, 2/13/09, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Christine Aguila <[email protected]> > Subject: GESO Street Portraits > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 9:06 PM > 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.html > > Comments/critique welcome. > Cheers, Christine > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
