Agreed. Nice work. My favorite is the lady with the cigarette. Three
reasons: the subject matter, the composition, and the fact that it's
unposed. The camera didn't intrude.
However, all are very nice. And while I usually like candids, posed
pics can be very artful as well -- as you have demonstrated here.
Paul
On Feb 13, 2009, at 9:35 PM, David Savage wrote:
I'd say the exercise was a success.
Excellent work Christine.
Cheers,
Dave
2009/2/14 Christine Aguila <cagu...@earthlink.net>:
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.html
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