Just wanted to say big thanks to Stan, Dave S., Marnie, Bong, Bob W., Cotty,
Subash, Derby, Paul, William, Fernando, Ken, Rick, Joseph, Bob S., Godfrey,
& Dave B for your very kind remarks, and tell everyone a very short
story--one I told a PDMLer I met over the holidays:
After buying the K10D, I googled the Pentax name & saw the acronym PDML. I
clicked the link &, of course, was taken here: http://www.pdml.net/
When I saw that photo, I thought to myself, "what the heck is that?" I
stared at it for a good, few, long seconds, and decided trouble lurked
behind that photo. To my female eyes, the photo had a shadowy, voyeuristic,
maleness to it that I thought best be avoided; I convinced myself that some
degree of pornography lurked behind that photo, so I trotted off down the
internet highway.
Then a month or so later while at the Pentax site, I saw the PDML link, and,
of course, thought, "Geeze, Pentax wouldn't associate with a dodgy site,
would they?" and off I went back to the PDML link with renewed
curiosity--and I am so glad I did--my life would be so different--I would
have missed out on some great photographic fellowship.
Big cheers, Christine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Halpin" <[email protected]>
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 8:28 PM
Subject: Re: GESO Street Portraits
Nice!
On Feb 13, 2009, at 8:06 PM, Christine Aguila wrote:
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
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