Ok, this is just an interesting discussion for hopefully everyone's educational benefit. I'm already "over" my disappointing score. (One has to get over it when the next disappointing scores start coming in for the next challenge).
I've never really been comfortable with candids, so I felt that this was a good exercise.
My definition of a candid is: "a photo that was taken without the awareness of subject, AND it should 'tell a story'.
Do you agree with that?
I figured what better place to capture people candid here (in the dead of winter) than in a mall? So I picked between three or four entries of strangers I had shot from afar in the mall, using my new, spy camera, the Canon S1 IS. Of these, I perhaps picked the least interesting people, but I thought this photo told the best "story".
My entry:
Alternate 1: This guy is more interesting. I can think of various stories for him, but they are all pretty much conjecture...
Alternate 2: This poor worker, caught sitting bored on the job.
Alternate 3: A moment between mother and child caught from afar. This is color mainly because I never actually got around to processing this for submission (just cropped from original capture--my "spy" camera is only 3 mpixels):
So what are your thoughts? Which would be better classified as an interesting candid? What does it take to make such a candid of people, in their every day lives as mall rats, interesting? ;)
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