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- From: steveh@pilot.dmg.ml.com (Steve Hannoford)
- Subject: Re: candids
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.210458.24808@pilot.dmg.ml.com>
- Organization: Merrill Lynch Debt Markets Group
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:04:58 GMT
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- I have taken lots of candids with reasonable success.
- I really don't like posed shots, and if I am shooting
- friends at a back yard BBQ it can be difficult.
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- Start by walking around with the camera everywhere.
- At some point, make a point of fussing with the camera,
- as if you had trouble with the lens. Try focusing on
- something pointed away from everyone. Grumble about
- the camera, and act as though you've given up on taking
- shots. I find that many people will stop paying attention,
- and can easily be shot candidly at this point.
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- Also try focusing on a subject that is equidistant from you
- as your real subject. At the last second, turn to your
- true subject and shoot.
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- Also try posing 1 or more people for a fake shot, while
- shooting someone 'in the background' - a zoom lens is
- good for this.
-
- Oh, yes - one of my favorites --> take a wide-to-tele
- zoom ( 35-200 is what i have ) and put it on wide and
- let people look through it - show them that the lens
- is a wide angle lens and covers the whole yard.
- Take all of your shots on telephoto. Even if people
- see you shooting a picture - they don't realize that
- you are zoomed in on them.
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