Walking the streets in Central America - creates many great photographic opportunities.

1. Man In Red

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2. Smoko

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3. Strictly Business

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While walking along a street beside the Station Market - - - I was snooping in windows as I walked, and noticed an old man scraping animal hides inside a dark dungeon of a room. I did not stop that day - but kept the location in mind to return to.

When I was in that area of town, I walked the same path and came upon the building. This time a young man was inside stitching together saddle padding. The tanning procedure and the old man were not around. I wasn't going to pass by the location again without something photographically.

I bent into the window and asked in Spanish, if I could take photos of him working. He agreed and I grabbed a few pics while leaning in the window and the open door. There was no space for me to go inside. I asked when the older man would be tanning and he told me the days of the week that he does that.

At one point the fellow popped his head out the window to talk to me and when I saw this magnificent opportunity for a well framed portrait, I simply asked that he raise his arm up onto the sill and I GOT MY SHOT. Couldn't have been better, if I had fully planned it. On leaving, I took an overview shot of the building made of raw wood boards full of character.

While shooting some kids on the street playing cards in Leon Nicaragua - I went for an overhead view with my camera (the tilt screen - a reason I like my Olympus E-PL3).

They didn't really know what I was doing or shooting, so as I got in position and fired away - the card deck was added into the rest of the cards and shuffled - - - and underneath hidden from view, was the small stash of money they were playing with and obviously hiding from their parents or others walking by.

I then knew why when I asked if I could their picture, they really didn't want me to and two of the three turned their faces away from me. I took a few seconds of persistence to get the few pictures I was able to get. As well I extracted their names from them - Jose', Fresia and Freddy (as well as added 10 cordobas to their stash, as I left)

yeah so still not good enough.. my biggest sticking point is posing the model i guess? and i don't see ALL the details before I click the shutter at this point... CC would be very welcome.


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So I finally decided on my second mirrorless camera. It ended up being the OM-D because a guy was selling (what seemed to be a brand new OM-D, strap wasn't even put on it) for 650 CAD, which was 50 bucks cheaper than the lowest priced new X-E1 I could find on eBay. And boy was it worth it, the EVF is beautiful, it handles amazingly. And while the playback button and the function buttons are rather awkard, overall it feels great in the hand. And for the first time, I prefered my Nikon 50mm over my Jupiter-8. There's something weird about the Nikon 50mm on my old Panasonic GF-2, sans viewfinder, it just protrudes a little too much and balancing the front heavy contraption always left me favouring the much shorter flange distanced Jupiter-8. Not so when you can bring the camera up directly to your eye.

Here are some pics:

BONUS: I actually stopped off at a local used camera store to have a chat with the guys. They were kind enough to let me try their Minolta 58mm 1.2. Great fantastic lens and I think they were trying to soft sell me on it. But, unfortunately, I don't have another 650 to spend on it:


1. This was shot at f1.4 but to get the whole bike rack in the frame, I had to be quite a fair distance back and thus the depth of field isn't quite as shallow as I was going for but such is the plight of x2 crop.


2. Since this is an adapted lens and auto-focus adapters don't exist yet (and I don't know if they ever will), I mainly focused on shooting stationery people.


3. Not always though, and I was pretty impressed with myself when it came to this shot. They were walking towards me and I had it in focus and I snapped it, turned out perfect. That's a great feeling and being a photographer from the AF generation, I can say I think more of my ilk need to experience this feeling.


4. Indoors, inside a Starbucks.


5. This lens tends to experience a lot of fringing wide open, but this is stopped down to f2.8, so I dunno.


6. Something simple, something nice.


7. I just thought she was hot. Sorry, sometimes I feel like taking pictures of pretty ladies.


8. I tried to see how shallow I could get. The DOF and the bokeh rendered beautifully. It's nice to know that these types of shots are still possible on the OM-D (with this focal length).


9. One of the great things about the OM-D when it comes to streets I find is that the screen tilts. So if you are looking to be discreet, having your head looking down and not at them goes a long way in not drawing attention to yourself. Even when you can clearly see my fingers nimbly trying to capture the focus using the LCD.


10. Another bike

Just got home from a beach vacation with my family. I took a ton of photos! Here are some of my favorites from my daughter's shoot.

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Lillian by paige_w, on Flickr

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she is always dancing by paige_w, on Flickr

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Lillie in the ocean by paige_w, on Flickr

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beach curls <3 by paige_w, on Flickr

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big ocean little girl by paige_w, on Flickr

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hello waves by paige_w, on Flickr

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IMG_5669.jpg by paige_w, on Flickr

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IMG_5632.jpg by paige_w, on Flickr

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IMG_5786.jpg by paige_w, on Flickr

more on flickr ;)

She said she felt like an Amish girl with her hair cover. First day of girl scout camp---told to wear silly socks.

She's obviously not shy...



[IMG] Breaking Amish by jwbryson1, on Flickr[/IMG]

A year on from when I first attempted some street photography, I went back to London to do it again. Here's what I got.

Back to my yesterday session.. just one more shot if you do not mind... I wonder if this shot can be qualified as a proper street photography. Do you see the story here?

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Dad by Binga63, on Flickr

I like them both but wanted to see which one suits better by hearing some of your opinions. He is a homeless man I met in my town who I asked if I could take a few photographs and he happily obliged.


Thanks for looking.

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READ ME FIRST BEFORE YOU LOOK! :sexywink:

I know I'm about to open up a can of worms here but...

PART ONE:

IMMEDIATE IMPRESSION. Do you see anything glaringly obvious about this image? Seriously. First impression. Within the first 5 seconds what your thoughts are... Don't sit and stare at it. Tell me the literal first thing that comes to mind (Aside from "cute model"... I want feed back about the image, haha).


PART TWO:

Okay **NOW** inspect it... Do you see anything that bothers you?


I'm looking for a specific answer here. But I'm not gonna tell you what it is, because I wanna see what you all say.

Reeaaaaddy? GO!!!
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I took pictures for a friend, taboo and dangerous i know, but i live on the wild side. While these shots blow others away i would like this forums' thoughts. Thanks in advance.

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