In a message dated 2/13/2009 6:10:20 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, cagu...@earthlink.net writes: 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.ht ml Comments/critique welcome. Cheers, Christine ================ Not bad at all, Christine. The last I'd toss. I like 2 and 3 (the angle and ceiling on 3 really makes it). I like 2 because she is not looking at you. And of course, 5, especially because his nose is running. When I shoot people on the "street," not often, though I will be doing more, I try to have them not notice me. There are two main schools of thought: not noticing, and engaging and talking to. Shel, not on list anymore, was big on engaging. So one suggestion I have, having watched him work and having seen a lot of his shots, is try a bit more for context next time -- environmental portraits. Tell a story. Engage in conversation if that is your approach, but continue shooting more than one frame as you talk and try for a bit more context. The longer you talk and shoot and act more interested in the conversation than the shots, the more relaxed and natural your subject becomes. That .02 advice is based strictly on my viewing of others and their photos, not on my taking them. HTH, Marnie :-) --------------------------------------------- Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. **************The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards. AOL Music takes you there. (http://music.aol.com/grammys?ncid=emlcntusmusi00000004) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
