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Subject: Re: [Leica] Stared down by subject of street photo
From: Doug Herr <telyt@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 12:14:15 -0800

on 2/2/02 9:30 AM, Robert G. Stevens at robsteve@hfx.andara.com wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> I was on the street a few days ago and the subject started staring at
> me.  I think it may have been the  big lens on my camera attracting his
> attention.  I just held my spot on the pavement and kept firing
> away.  Eventually the subject looked away.  The picture is at the link below.
> 
> http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/photography/images/Misc/AreYouLookingAtMe.jpg
> 
> More pictures of the same subject at the link below.
> 
> http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/photography/LookingAtMe.htm
> 
> BTW, I was on the street of a small community when all these pictures were
> taken.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Robert
> 
 
Very cool photos, Robert.
 
The stare may have been the result of the big lens.  To me, and to the kids
in my daughter's class, a big lens pointed in at someone looks like an
agressive signal. 
 
Predators stare at their prey before their attack, mostly to plan a
successful attack.  Agressive humans stare too.  I think my tripod-less
approach to wildlife photos is one of the reasons I can get as close to the
critters as I do.  The tripod fixes the lens in one position, even if the
photographer is about to make the photo or not.  This looks like a prolonged
stare.  By raising the camera only for the photo and quickly putting it down
again, it looks to my subjects more like a glance - more like how a prey
species behaves - than a stare.
 
Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
www.wildlightphoto.com


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