I love the guy with the Trojan horse - that's a great shot by any standards. I also like the woman with the fancy cigarette holder, but it's a bit spoilt by the van behind her. Street shooting's a lottery that way.
Reminds me a bit of my favourite laughably bad painting: http://tinyurl.com/bu487g http://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/collections/catalogue-des-oeuvres/resultat-coll ection.html?no_cache=1&zoom=1&tx_damzoom_pi1[zoom]=0&tx_damzoom_pi1[xmlId]=0 25619&tx_damzoom_pi1[back]=fr/collections/catalogue-des-oeuvres/resultat-col lection.html%3Fno_cache%3D1%26zsz%3D9 Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On > Behalf Of Christine Aguila > Sent: 14 February 2009 02:06 > To: pdml@pdml.net > Subject: GESO Street Portraits > > 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%20Po > rtraits/index.html > > Comments/critique welcome. > Cheers, Christine > > > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
