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I learned a lot about photography via this photograph and that is why I'm posting it.
You're sitting at a cafe in Warsaw, and across from you a garbage can catches and fire presumably from a cigarette someone ashed out in it.
You pop up with your camera head to the curb to document this event. First error. You have got to be descreet, otherwise people are aware of you and are not acting as naturally, drastically reducing the chance that you get the natural brilliant shot you're aiming for.
After a while of sitting there you begin to conceal because people who saw you move in to position have since left. I got a little lucky because the trash kept burning and people kept walking right on by. Who could have expected apathy aroun this subject.
Even so, I took easily 50 photographs in this series, and I still don't feel I captured the right moment. I looked through the photos 20 times thinking I had nothing, until I noticed this man on the right who captured the bad smell with the expression on his face. But the angle on the second guard sucks and her face was priceless in some of the other shots.
I didn't get the right angle, I didn't get the right moment, even though I took lots of shots.
I should have kept my eyes out of the camera, focusing on predicting the elements around me and awaiting to take five total shots rather than being snap happy and not catching anything meaningful.
But I learned. And I found an opportunity with subject matter interesting enough to learn from. And that feels great.
Shred me! LOL
And `cweeks dude... thanks!
You're sitting at a cafe in Warsaw, and across from you a garbage can catches and fire presumably from a cigarette someone ashed out in it.
You pop up with your camera head to the curb to document this event. First error. You have got to be descreet, otherwise people are aware of you and are not acting as naturally, drastically reducing the chance that you get the natural brilliant shot you're aiming for.
After a while of sitting there you begin to conceal because people who saw you move in to position have since left. I got a little lucky because the trash kept burning and people kept walking right on by. Who could have expected apathy aroun this subject.
Even so, I took easily 50 photographs in this series, and I still don't feel I captured the right moment. I looked through the photos 20 times thinking I had nothing, until I noticed this man on the right who captured the bad smell with the expression on his face. But the angle on the second guard sucks and her face was priceless in some of the other shots.
I didn't get the right angle, I didn't get the right moment, even though I took lots of shots.
I should have kept my eyes out of the camera, focusing on predicting the elements around me and awaiting to take five total shots rather than being snap happy and not catching anything meaningful.
But I learned. And I found an opportunity with subject matter interesting enough to learn from. And that feels great.
Shred me! LOL
And `cweeks dude... thanks!
Image size
3830x2645px 3.72 MB
Make
SONY
Model
DSLR-A350
Shutter Speed
1/200 second
Aperture
F/9.0
Focal Length
55 mm
ISO Speed
400
Date Taken
May 24, 2009, 5:21:20 AM
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Overall
Vision Originality Technique ImpactA little Angelo on Angelo action. In college I was a big street shooter. You'll find a lot of different schools of thought as far as how to capture street scenes. Do you sneak a shot? Do you get in there and hope people act natural by using a more discrete camera? Or do you let people know you're there and decided the most natural reaction is there reaction of the situation as a whole, including you with a camera in their face. As you shoot more street stuff, you'll figure out what you're most drawn to.
Lets break down this shot. First thing I notice is the man dumping water into the trash can because it's in the center of the photo, then I read to the right because there are light details against a dark background. This reveals people unphased as well as a man who is watching the action. I then read back to the left where I see the police in complete bewilderment over what is going on. You have this dynamic action in between people who don't know what's going on or don't care. There is a lot of conceptual contrast there.
Technically speaking the photo is pulled off very well. It's framed very evenly and has tonal contrast between the background and foreground. The only thing I'll knock you on is your choice of aperture. A little shallower depth of field would have cleaned up the background. Once you get deeper than the lady to the right of center, the rest of the detail could be knocked out without much consequence.