On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Christine Aguila <cagu...@earthlink.net> wrote: > 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 > > Comments/critique welcome.
Brilliant stuff! I especially enjoyed the lady with the cigarette in the cigarette holder and the guy with the trojan horse. I like to do both candids and posed stuff (as the situation requires) on the street. In fact I used to a lot more stealthy stuff and lately I've been working on my street portraits. I really like yours! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.
