Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And a dirty little secret that I am willing to share: I too end up with a lot of images that are affected by camera or subject movement, or the subject is not in the right position. That is normal when you are photographing street life rather than rock and ferns. But you don't have to show the duds to the public :-) Cheers, Nathan On 17 Jul, 2011, at 4:35 , Richard Man wrote: > Joseph, street shooting is hard. That's why photos from Lluis and > others who practice there are just a gem. Search the LUG archive > message from Ted Grant with words like "street shooting." There are > some great advice there. > > > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Joseph V. Lam <lam.joev at gmail.com> > wrote: >> Lluis, >> >> You make fantastic pictures on you tube. How do you shoot people on the >> street? I am kind of nervous pointing camera at people, so I pre-focus >> (guessing) the distance and shoot at waist level and avoid eye contact. >> Many >> times people not at the location I want in the picture or hand-shaken. >> What >> is the trick to get a sharp picture? >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Joseph Lam >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> > // richard's personal photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all > previous replies in your msgs. ] > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog