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Wood St. 1:08 PM
Wood St. 1:08 PM
bvy


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Camera: Olympus C-70 / C-7000 Zoom
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Date: Oct 30, 2008
Aperture: F/4
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/320
Galleries: Black and White, Street
Date Uploaded: Nov 7, 2008

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 11/12/2008 09:43:09 AM
Thanks for the insight Joe...!
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 11/12/2008 07:01:35 AM
I often use spot metering if I am not going to look, it will get the focus atleast metered right, you just have to hit the focus on something. Also I will just aim the camera at a group of people and meter the way I want it to look. If you keep the light coming from the same direction you can get very expected results. Sometimes too, I aim the camera at the sky and lock the exposure, many places will then be dark when you are walking around. Then I for people walking in the sun or out of the shade and shoot them, this can give very dramatic results.
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 11/11/2008 02:11:45 AM
Black and white waistlines! Vintage bvy. This is the kind of shot that wins prizes in venues way beyond dpc.

And we need more of this kind of discussion.
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 11/09/2008 08:44:53 PM
Originally posted by Iraklis:
I like their positioning. They are proximate but in completely different places. Very nice hip shot once again... I recognise the guy on the right....is this your neighborhood?


Ha! Nope. Never seen him before, don't expect to again. I just happened to catch a few shots of him from different angles. Guess I need some new material. I didn't get much time to shoot last week, and those opportunities I did have were bright sunny days, which is a challenge for shooting street shots.

Originally posted by Iraklis:
Interesting, I find cloudy days more challenging...and prefer sunny days. I guess it's cause I like to use shadows when I can. Curious, why do you feel the opposite?


Since I shoot from the hip, it's much harder to set exposure. Usually the bright background is what gets properly exposed at the cost of underexposed subjects. On an overcast day, the light is more uniform. Lately I've been experimenting with spot metering and manually setting exposure -- with mixed results. You use light and shadows to great advantage in your work; I hope to be able to emulate that soon.
 11/09/2008 03:22:51 AM
Heh... Most of my pics are from my walk from the office to the train home and I run into a lot of the same faces many of which I have more than one shot of. : )

I like the intimacy of your shots...

Interesting, I find cloudy days more challenging...and prefer sunny days. I guess it's cause I like to use shadows when I can. Curious, why do you feel the opposite?

Message edited by author 2008-11-09 04:10:15.
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 11/08/2008 05:52:25 PM
I like their positioning. They are proximate but in completely different places. Very nice hip shot once again... I recognise the guy on the right....is this your neighborhood?

Message edited by author 2008-11-08 17:54:46.
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