Including the posed shots in this gallery is perfectly fine with me. Those folks were a large part of the experience and it's a considerate and generous thing for you to do for them. All well done work, Christine! You seem to have an affinity for catching the moment.
Jack --- On Tue, 11/3/09, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Christine Aguila <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Construction VII > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 7:37 PM > Thanks, Jack. I doubt I'll ever > get good at posed shots--the whole endeavor feels so > unnatural to me. Thing is though, I never asked for > any of the posed shots. Tom, the very tall iron > worker, often asks me to take a picture of him and someone > else, so I just do. He often puts his arm around someone, > and I take the shot. I'll eventually print up the pics > of him, so he can have them as a keepsake. His is a > large, warm, friendly soul, and he gets a little sentimental > over the long friendships he's made through his work. > It's very sweet really--and I see no harm in obliging > him. That pic of the 3 guys with the shovels was a > similar situation. They wanted a posed shot, and I > obliged. My husband always giggles when he sees that > shot. His caption for that shot is "We bury all the > mistakes." Cheers, Christine > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Davis" <[email protected]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 4:30 PM > Subject: Re: Construction VII > > > Finally got around to commenting on this well done set. > Mush prefer the casual "catch" shots to those posed. Some > really pro grabs, Christine. > Glad I took a squint! > > Jack > > --- On Sat, 10/31/09, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > From: Christine Aguila <[email protected]> > > Subject: Construction VII > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Saturday, October 31, 2009, 11:24 PM > > Hi Everyone: > > > > I've put together 2 galleries featuring the workers, > and in > > some instances there's some text. The 1st gallery is > > in color. > > The 2nd gallery is in black and white, and the > photographs > > are different than the 1st set. There's some funny > > expressions in the 1st set. > > Some of these photos were taken over a year ago. > > > > To be honest, I'm in a bit of a rut with this photo > > project. The team is now on the 4th floor of the > > parking garage, and the construction work, itself, is > a bit > > redundant, and I have to watch that I don't take the > same > > shots I did when shooting the previous floors. > > > > As a way to get out of this bit of rut here, I think > I'm > > going to get a digital tape recorder and record some > sound, > > do more stills, and put together a short multimedia > > piece. Doing this might help rejuvenate my eyes--I > > feel I'm "seeing" the same shots over and over again, > and I > > have to do something to see new again. > > > > Color > > http://www.caguila.com/caguila/workers1/ > > > > > > > > Black and White > > http://www.caguila.com/caguila/workers2/ > > > > > > Comments 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. > > > > -- > 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.
