> > I liked very much of the two photos, but I'd like to ask something. > > These kind of photography attracts me a lot, but I usually > tend to be a bit > embarrassed to point the camera at someone in order to catch > the moment, as > you did, sometimes because If I am going to be quick enough > it seems I am > steeling that picture, other times if I wait a bit to much > they look at me > and a lot of things can happen. How do you manage to do these > beautiful and > touching photos. > > And this question it's not just for you because some of the > guys here in the > list have lovely photos of moments like those. > > Best regards, > Manuel
it takes practice. Sometimes people are just too absorbed to notice what you're doing. Other times they notice, but let you have the shot. And of course, quite often they don't want you to take the shot so, depending on the situation, you either walk away or grab it anyway. Some photographers can make themselves invisible somehow. In fact, the more you take this kind of photo the more easily you can make yourself invisible. I think it is something to do with confidence, observation and knowing when to raise the camera. John Malcolm Brinnin wrote a memoir of the time he spent travelling around the US with Henri Cartier-Bresson. In it he describes how HCB took about 20 photographs of one woman just walking from one room to another, with HCB, and the woman didn't even notice. He also describes them going to a gambling den - "For more than an hour he photographed the play at pool tables and slot machines, working so unobtrusively that his subjects seemed unaware of him or, if they were, unperturbed by the intrusion of a presence so patently bland". So the secret of good photography is this: be patently bland. Bob -- 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.
