On Dec 11, 2010, at 11:18 PM, paul stenquist wrote: > I try not to let them know I'm going to shoot them. I don't want posed > portraits. I'm trying for a bit of reality, preserved photographically. The > fellow with the Detroit cap had caught me raising my camera earlier. When I > knew I was nailed, I pretended to be fooling around, focusing on different > things. Later, I shot him with live view, the camera on my lap. Thus, the > back of the chair in frame.
Haven't done much of this kind of thing in a while, but people really interest me -- people as they are. But I've also always felt guilty, like I was stealing something. One Spring my brother and I were driving around in the Amish country around Arthur, Illinois. We noticed a guy out in a filed with a large hitch -- 8 or 10 horses -- pulling a two-bottom riding plow. We waited for them to get closer. As they approached the turn at the end of the field my brother raised his camera. The farmer leaped off the plow. "No, not me, please. The horses OK, but not me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- 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.
