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Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

03/23/2006 06:34:54 PM · #1

or whatever you might call it. I see so many cool people around but never been brave enough to secretly take shots of them lol. So I got brave the other day. I could have snuck in closer lol but I risked me 5yo coming out with "mommy, you don't even know that man!" lol.
Watching

Message edited by author 2006-03-23 18:35:27.

dwterry

Canon EOS-1D Mark III

03/23/2006 06:43:46 PM · #2

I think you needed to take one step to the right - to separate the man from the pole. But otherwise, I like the composition a lot!

Art Roflmao

Canon EOS-6D Mark II

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

03/23/2006 06:46:29 PM · #3

Originally posted by dwterry:

I think you needed to take one step to the right - to separate the man from the pole. But otherwise, I like the composition a lot!

Ditto. The scene has lots of potential.

smilebig4me1x

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

03/23/2006 06:46:45 PM · #4

not too bad at all for a first timmer. try sneaking around to your right a bit more to get the subjest away from the pole.

U get the gitters? I did the first time i grabbed a candid. felt like the whole world could see me and was watching!

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haha...when i started there wasnt any replies at all! thats what i ge for trying to be active on dpc while family is all trying to talk to me at once!

Message edited by author 2006-03-23 18:48:10.

03/23/2006 07:13:03 PM · #5

I wanted to lol. Actually I wanted to be on the other side of him so I could get more of a view of what he was looking at-I think that's what you all mean by going to his right? Anyhow, if I'd been by myself I would have taken more then one shot that day. I had a lot of oppurtunities but I was so hesistant.
Weather permitting I'm heading over there tomorrow alone while my daughter is in school so maybe I'll see something that catches my eye again.

Olympus 50-200mm f/2.8-3.5 ED Zuiko Digital

03/23/2006 07:15:09 PM · #6

Originally posted by smilebig4me1x:

hehe, yeah I got the gitters lol. And I wanted to take more but my 5 yo is not shy in the least and I could just hear her yelling something like "Hey mister! My mamas takin pictures of you!"

I almost asked him if I could take a few pictures of him, but then I thought it would take away from the picture itself. And then I thought with my 5yo social butterfly she probably would have sat downt here with him and struck up a conversation which would have also made a great picture lol. Ah well.

cislander

Olympus E-3

03/23/2006 07:47:49 PM · #7

Candids are great fun. I never ask permission. It does spoil the shot when the subject notices you so keep sneaking. My favorite method is to adjust my setting on a subject near my target, then set focus on a spot on the ground near the target. If the person isn't looking my direction I just wheel around and shoot. If they are, then I rest my camera on my arm and look down at it as if fooling around with it and pop of a couple frames. This only works in manual focus of course. I used to try it in auto focus but kept getting tight focus on anything but the subject.
Keep shooting! They're unarmed!

dwterry

Canon EOS-1D Mark III

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

03/23/2006 08:23:37 PM · #8

Originally posted by missinseattle:

Actually I wanted to be on the other side of him so I could get more of a view of what he was looking at-I think that's what you all mean by going to his right?

I don't think we're quite saying the same thing. I was suggesting that you literally take "one step" to your right. The change in angle by that single step would have separated the man from the pole.

Actually, I suspect that if your image was in color, there would be more visible separation of man and pole as it is. So this fact might not have been so "apparent" in real life. If the colors truly are different, you could try a different B&W conversion that would help give the pole a little different shading. That could help the picture even with the framing it has now.