A walk in the park

Hobbes · Aug 17, 2008

I have recently started to take photos of people and found it quite hard and challenging. This is probably the best one I managed to take so far.

tirediron · Aug 17, 2008

Nicely done. How did you do your selective colouration?

Hobbes · Aug 17, 2008

tirediron said:
Nicely done. How did you do your selective colouration?

this is how I did it

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/or/selective-coloring.html

danjchau · Aug 17, 2008

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Hobbes · Aug 18, 2008

danjchau said:
Taking photos of people takes lots of practice an patience. You probably want to get less of the scene and up close to the subject either by walking or zooming, or by using a longer lens.

yeah you are right lol but I think I am too shy or too much of a coward sometimes to walk up closer to strangers and just take pics of them lmao well I know I would be like "what the heck? why are you taking a pic of me?" if some stranger come up to me and just start to take photos of me. oh well lol I may will try to take pics of friends in the future if I can find some interesting ones lol

chantal7 · Aug 18, 2008

Hobbes said:
yeah you are right lol but I think I am too shy or too much of a coward sometimes to walk up closer to strangers and just take pics of them lmao well I know I would be like "what the heck? why are you taking a pic of me?" if some stranger come up to me and just start to take photos of me. oh well lol I may will try to take pics of friends in the future if I can find some interesting ones lol

Well, if you had a massive zoom lens, that would get rid of all those problems

Hobbes · Aug 18, 2008

chantal7 said:
Well, if you had a massive zoom lens, that would get rid of all those problems

hahaha ewww do you suggest that I should spy on people?? lmao jk yeah I MAY will get a 70-200 4.0 L IS USM later, much later lmao course it costs a fortune BUT not for being a creep hahaha but more for wildlife photography xD

danjchau · Aug 18, 2008

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Hobbes · Aug 18, 2008

danjchau said:
If you never had permission or had the people sign model release forms, you shouldn't even be taking pictures of strangers or posting it here. Just a heads up, to keep you from trouble.

oh really? wth lol sorry!! I didnt know its against rules or law or whatever I am quite new to this and was just trying out. well I dont think its illegal here in Sweden but maybe it is in the US or Canada... thanks for the info though

tomcat0347 · Aug 18, 2008

Actually in the US, as long as you are in public, pictures of you can be taken. As long as you are not in a "private place" such as your bedroom or dresser or bathroom. Look up photographer's rights. In Canada, I don't think it exists.

Hobbes · Aug 19, 2008

tomcat0347 said:
Actually in the US, as long as you are in public, pictures of you can be taken. As long as you are not in a "private place" such as your bedroom or dresser or bathroom. Look up photographer's rights. In Canada, I don't think it exists.

lol thats what I thought and here is a proof that it is NOT illegal or whatever to take photos of people in the public, btw geez the news photographers take photos of strangers all the freaking time and you dont see them get into trouble because of that :mrgreen: Well I kinda stink at people photography anyway so I wont do whole alot of that in the future

lol I walked past this nightclub last friday and saw a bunch of police officers standing outside so I decided to take some pics of the scene. Several of them actually saw me taking photos of them and they did nothing :greenpbl:

janetm1000 · Aug 19, 2008

hobbes, that's a really nice shot! it's really tough to get good candid pictures of people, esp if you dont have much zoom. you go to close, they realize you're there and it changes the scene...
i dont think this one is too bad though. you could just crop it a little bit...

Hobbes · Aug 19, 2008

janetm1000 said:
hobbes, that's a really nice shot! it's really tough to get good candid pictures of people, esp if you dont have much zoom. you go to close, they realize you're there and it changes the scene...
i dont think this one is too bad though. you could just crop it a little bit...

lol thank you for the kind comment. yeah I know what you mean by using the zoom more lol a few days ago I saw some guys skateboarding in a park and I walked closer to them and wanted to take a clear shot you know what they did? they stopped skateboarding and just standing there talking to each other when they saw me approaching! stupid cowards lmao well as I said that was just an experiment I will not take whole a lot of pics of people in the future course to me landscape and animal photography are more interesting