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so how do you take candid people photos? surreptiously use a zoom or telephoto? I saw an interesting tattoo on a person but thought it unwise to point my camera at the person's body part!
here's a pic, not vacation but I liked it
I love your POV & use of selective DOF. A really nice shot
Likewise the same with this shot in which you use DOF with an angle shot to create an interesting image. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/w-photos/2778680026.jpg > ( I could not get the image to script into the message ).
Believe it or not, I'm most usually up close and personal when I grab these candid snaps. They're usually taken at 8 to 15 feet.
My old Sony P&S had a great in-hand feel & I would walk along with my wife chatting while the camera rests casually on my chest. I simply "feel" the vibe of the crowd & wait for someone/something to grab my eye ( it could be their dress, mannerism, or action). I do not consciously select an individual as much as I react to them.
I guess that I'm using a clandestine technique ( although the camera is always up and visible to them) but I'm really trying to capture them as they are without allowing camera awareness to alter their essence. The technique requires you to walk slowly and to learn how to blindly point the camera in their direction ( no compositing or framing . . . just point and shoot ). You also have to learn to gently press the shutter gently to grab focus and exposure & then finish the exposure by pressing all the way down without moving the camera. It's a hit or miss technique in which about 1 of 3 shots capture something in frame. I look at it as fishing and having some slip off the hook. I love this technique.
My new Canon G9 is a larger P&S and a bit unwieldly in hand. I'm still working on my technique with the G9. London is a great people city and one of the best places I've found to do candids because both the people and the environs are amazing.
This image was taken on Westminster Bridge. I see the 3 gals walking together when they're on the other side approaching us. I had my eyes on them & was simply waiting for them to draq closer for me to capture them. Suddenly as we're some 30 feet away, the 3 of them stop walking and they peel off to the rail where they each take out a camera and snap away. By now I'm drawing closer & I had one shot to snap and shoot using the technique I describe above. I got lucky.
This is one for the natural sciences afficionados.
This photo of Mauna Kea taken from the Kohala Road above Waimea shows two colliding air masses. Notice that the area underneath the clouds on the right side of the photo is hazy. That haze is VOG, wrapping around the south side of Big Island and blowing up toward Waikoloa.
If you look closely at the VOG area, you can see a distinct near vertical line where the air is hazy to the right and clear to the left; that vertical line aligns precisely with the vertical front of the puffy clouds.
That vertical haze line and the vertical cloud front mark the collision of the southern VOG air with NE trade winds blowing over the island from the Hamakua coast through Waimea. The two air masses are not mixing; at the time I took the photo they were each pushing against each other in almost a perfect standoff. At the collision point, both air masses were suddenly being pushed upward with little mixing. It looks as if the dewpoint in the VOG air mass is about 2500 feet; as the VOG air is forced above that level moisture condenses and clouds form. If you watched the clouds there was actually pretty violent churning on that vertical face and you could see the moisture condensing out of the air to form clouds. Somewhere around 8000 feet it appears that the NE trade winds begin to overwhelm the VOG air, and the trade wind air starts overrunning the VOG air, shearing off the tops of the clouds that have formed over the VOG air.
Driving over the Kohala Mountains, you could see the colliding air and churning clouds almost all of the way from Waimea to Hawi. Much of the time the collision was directly over the highway. If you looked to the east the views were sparkling and clear; to the right the scenery was hazy and had a brownish tint.
My new Canon G9 is a larger P&S and a bit unwieldly in hand. I'm still working on my technique with the G9. London is a great people city and one of the best places I've found to do candids because both the people and the environs are amazing.
Barry
The Canon G9 - it seemed that was the camera the professionals used when they didn't bring their dSLR. (I went with the less expensive Canon S5)
that DOF pic - the "bokeh" - was enhanced with photoshop. the S5 can get some narrow DOF blur effect but not that much with the background just a short distance away.
This weekend Virginia Beach is sponsoring an extreme skate boarding - surfing - music festival, should be lot's of opportunities for candid pics (if I develop the technique!)
As in other photos in this area, you can see the VOG front. In this view looking generally northward across the Waikoloa grasslands, the hazy area on the lower flank of Kohala is VOG.
Instead of the usual scenery pics here's one I took last weekend - Virginia Beach surfing festival with skateboarding, skimboarding, BMX, volleyball, music, free energy drinks, everything, etc.
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