I was on my way to Chinatown to take candids of the people in the marketplace when I saw this man rummaging inside a garbage bin. I had no trouble getting closer to take a photo with my 50mm lens. I walked past him, still he didn't notice me and when I looked back he had put the cover of the bin back and was about to grab his cart, empty handed. Apparently there were no treasures to be found.
I thought the photo was a little amusing although the circumstances were sad.
Shot in raw mode.
Post processing:
levels, curves
cloned out a piece of the front of a fire hydrant with a chain attached to it
converted to black and white in channel mixer
dodged and burned a few areas to increase contrast
colorized with a very very faint sepia tone.
neat image
cropped
resized
border
Canon 50mm f1.8
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That bums shoes looks awefully shiney....Nice capture. Very interesting dive hes doing! Good choice on making this black and white. Think it would have lost a lot in color.
This is a great Candid shot, I feel the background is distracting. loosing the top third of this image would still give the pathway dissapearing on the Right hand side but would place more awaremness on the "Bin Raider"
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