=Capture a stranger street style=

AtlPikMan · Oct 21, 2009

OMG, Guys the last couple of pics are Epic, Nice Work...lol

txphotog · Oct 21, 2009

Oh my gosh joemc! That photo of the bikini girls with the big guy watching is a classic! I would love to get something even close to that! Excellent work.

Rekd · Oct 21, 2009

Thanks Javier! I still LOL when I look at that biker!

Rekd · Oct 22, 2009

Here's one I took at Ocean Beach a couple weekends ago. She was sitting on the wall playing her guitar for a while. I went to the water with my boys and she was out when I came back up. The batteries in the camera had already died or I would have taken a shot of her playing (would have been cool). The camera was shut off for a while when I saw her here and I knew I could squeeze one more shot out. I was worried about getting the shot so I didn't think to frame her using the rule of 3rds with either the water or the boardwalk in the frame... :twak:

javier · Oct 22, 2009

About ATVs said:
Here's one I took at Ocean Beach a couple weekends ago. She was sitting on the wall playing her guitar for a while. I went to the water with my boys and she was out when I came back up. The batteries in the camera had already died or I would have taken a shot of her playing (would have been cool). The camera was shut off for a while when I saw her here and I knew I could squeeze one more shot out. I was worried about getting the shot so I didn't think to frame her using the rule of 3rds with either the water or the boardwalk in the frame... :twak:

This is a really nice picture and one I am sure she would be happy to have. As for rules, they are made to be broken in street photography. Nice capture.

javier · Oct 22, 2009

Rekd · Oct 22, 2009

javier said:
This is a really nice picture and one I am sure she would be happy to have. As for rules, they are made to be broken in street photography. Nice capture.

You're prolly right. I'll keep an eye out for her, she won't be hard to find. Excellent footsteps, btw! Very cool effect.

javier · Oct 22, 2009

About ATVs said:
javier said:

This is a really nice picture and one I am sure she would be happy to have. As for rules, they are made to be broken in street photography. Nice capture.

Click to expand...

You're prolly right. I'll keep an eye out for her, she won't be hard to find. Excellent footsteps, btw! Very cool effect.

Thank you. Many of the people I capture, I give them my card and ask them if they want the image, to send me an email. 9 of 10 people do ask and are excited, and 1 in 10 get upset.

javier · Oct 22, 2009

This lady was put out on the street by ''banks'' that are running the U.S...i had given her my card and she actually
got a hold of me. She was there at the federal building protesting all the illegal stuff going on in the U.S.

canon ae-1, Fuji400 xtra, FD28F/2.8

johngpt · Oct 22, 2009

javier said:

Now we know where Wonder Woman shops! :lmao:

Or did Ringling Bros. camp out in the mall lot?

javier · Oct 23, 2009

Hey John, Good catch!

ISO3200

javier · Oct 23, 2009

I was not going to post these, but then they are photographs. I decided to pull Daniel out of school and go for a hike in the angeles national Forrest since we had not been on a good hike in while. I grabbed by ME SUPER and took off...I wish I had taken my digital with Long lens, but who knew...While Hiking a creek we came across some voodoo dolls hanging on the trees and as we looked up ahead, we found a group of people practicing true Santeria...They where doing animal sacrifice and putting the blood on these peoples head to ''cleanse'' them...It was creepy to me and horrible. All I could do is pray for these people. Anyway here are some images. Wrong lens and these are heavily cropped as they are quick scans. I will not post the slaughtering of the animals though. So ugly...They ended up scaring us away as they did not like their pictures taken....but I kept shooting.
Here we have the black witch and the white witch. Notice the snake..

Here is a little tighter look at the witch

The ritual begins

One of the voodoo dolls (or what ever it is)on the trees. This form of hard core Santaria is normally not seen.. Here we have two religions inter twined.

Here we are walking towards them.

DavidR · Oct 23, 2009

I think this counts.

This Gentleman was litteraly in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of a dirt lot, with noone around. saw him while driveing by so i flipped a u and went back.

He played a whole set, amps/mics/guitars blaring, to noone. he didnt even seem to notice me untell after he was done with a few more songs.

after he was done with his set, he asked me what i was up to, i replied "taking some pictures of an interesting fellow."

Then i asked him what he was up to, he said "havin a yard sale." :lol:

I got the propane camp stove for 5 bucks! When all was sayed and done he handed me a hand written buisness card with no#, address, anything, all it said was "The Traveling Cowboy see ya when i see ya."

Buckster · Oct 23, 2009

DavidR said:
I think this counts.

This Gentleman was litteraly in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of a dirt lot, with noone around. saw him while driveing by so i flipped a u and went back.

He played a whole set, amps/mics/guitars blaring, to noone. he didnt even seem to notice me untell after he was done with a few more songs.

after he was done with his set, he asked me what i was up to, i replied "taking some pictures of an interesting fellow."

Then i asked him what he was up to, he said "havin a yard sale."

I got the propane camp stove for 5 bucks! When all was sayed and done he handed me a hand written buisness card with no#, address, anything, all it said was "The Traveling Cowboy see ya when i see ya."