JemRaid
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Hello all
Some years ago the photo press and the social media were concerned that street photography might be banned in the EU. They asked photographers to go out and do it!
I went off to some of the small towns nearby with my little LX3. After fiddling about unsuccessfully for an hour or so I realised that I had the be fast if I was going to get anything at all, I did not want pics of peoples backs.
These are the settings I used; 28mm (which meant getting close) manual zone focussing anything from 3ft to about 30ft at f4.0, and altered the EV depending if I was walking into or out of the light.
I held the camera under my chin with my finger on the shutter, felt a right idiot doing it but I was able to use it, swivel it, swivel with it and press the shutter straightaway. I couldn't careless about getting stuff square its the people I was after.
After a few weeks of doing it I started to look through the pics for a theme or even a project. Nothing came to mind immediately until I turned it on its head and thought about what I was not taking. And that was pics of old people, dreadful really I'm an old fogie myself. I had my theme and decided to call it; The Unobserved.
There is I think a deal of pathos about this one.
J
Some years ago the photo press and the social media were concerned that street photography might be banned in the EU. They asked photographers to go out and do it!
I went off to some of the small towns nearby with my little LX3. After fiddling about unsuccessfully for an hour or so I realised that I had the be fast if I was going to get anything at all, I did not want pics of peoples backs.
These are the settings I used; 28mm (which meant getting close) manual zone focussing anything from 3ft to about 30ft at f4.0, and altered the EV depending if I was walking into or out of the light.
I held the camera under my chin with my finger on the shutter, felt a right idiot doing it but I was able to use it, swivel it, swivel with it and press the shutter straightaway. I couldn't careless about getting stuff square its the people I was after.
After a few weeks of doing it I started to look through the pics for a theme or even a project. Nothing came to mind immediately until I turned it on its head and thought about what I was not taking. And that was pics of old people, dreadful really I'm an old fogie myself. I had my theme and decided to call it; The Unobserved.
There is I think a deal of pathos about this one.
J
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