Walked around Camden Town with Kate poking my lens into people’s faces. Instead of having the camera around my neck, I wrapped the neck strap around my wrist, scale-focused, guessed exposure and composition, then just lifted the camera one-handed to my eye to snap – in what I was hoping to be one confident fluid action.
The results were a bit hit and miss, particularly moving from outside (relatively sunny) to the inside markets (relatively dark) and back. Inside it is quite hard to scale-focus at a large aperture since the depth of field is fairly narrow. I need more practice.
There is also the tension involved. Most people’s reactions were/are ameliorated with a big smile and a thank you.
Except this guy:
He told us he wasn’t a tourist attraction. Kate told him we weren’t tourists…
Window shopping:
Earing:
Really quite enjoyable, but sooooooo cold today. Really arctic. I was wearing fingerless gloves but the camera was at the end of my fingers and exposed. However, there are some people you just wouldn’t photograph…
by skinnyvoice
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