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Since I got the tiny A6000 with tilt screen I've further developed techniques (which I had started with older DSLR) for shooting fast and furious, intuitively, and from the hip and LCD on the street, usually 16-20mm. It's liberating! I usually stop to compose through the EVF only if I have plenty of time, shooting a still image or waiting for something to happen in a particular context.I understand the need for stealthiness on the approach, but I think 9 times out of 10 stopping to compose will get a better shot ... if your approach was good, then your subject won't notice until the shot's been taken - after that it doesn't matter.I was using a small APS-C mirrorless camera with a 35mm equivalent lens set on aperture priority mode with f/2.0, manually selected ISO 12800, and the shutter speed set by the camera was 1/200 (because I take the shots without stopping while walking I need a high shutter speed, the reason I take the shots while walking is because it enhances my stealthiness).This is a lot more interesting than your run of the mill cellphone shot. One trick is to keep shooting until she looks up. Sometimes works. This is a good use of the shooting from below eye level approach, which I recommend against for beginners. It tends to create an unnatural point of view and detach us, as viewers, from our placing ourself in the scene. It also tends to detach the photographer, in subtle ways.Thanks for looking and commenting. It was the umbrella which made me take the shoot.IMO, photos of people looking at their phones, no matter what the background, are inherently uninteresting.
Here we have a very arresting pattern, which is undercut by the face focused on the distant reality reflected in the cellphone, the detached upward gaze, and the general softness, whether caused by focus or camera motion, but that which should be be sharp and stand out, is soft.
What equipment were you using?
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Frank
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Shot in downtown Manhattan, unless noted
To make another musical analogy, it's like improvising jazz compared to reading a Bach invention (which Bach probably improvised). I do both, but the freedom of the former is wonderful.
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Frank
Photos look better in Original Size
Shot in downtown Manhattan, unless noted
