The response from these 4 lists to the scooter photo has been absolutely overwhelming. While I usually thank each person who comments on my work individually, there are just too many of you this time :-) I really appreciate the kind words.
Some people have asked questions, so let me answer them collectively.The street was a rather narrow street near the beach. I parked my car to pick up the pizza. As I was parking, I saw this couple across the street and decided that I needed a picture of them. Obviously in this kind of situation you don't ask, you just do it discreetly and quickly. I took the camera (Oly E3) out of its bag. It was already set for ISO 1000 from earlier in the evening, and also had the right lens mounted, the 25mm 1.4 PanaLeica. I snapped two pictures without even raising the camera to my eye, and then went inside the pizza place. There were a lot of other teenagers and young people hanging around, and I did not want someone to alert the couple of the scooter that there was some guy taking pictures of them, although I do not believe it would have been a big problem.
The high ISO and the lens at f1.4 allowed a good shutter speed, something like 1/160 I think (it is all in the exif), and so the image is reasonably sharp. What I posted is quite heavily cropped, perhaps 1/3 of the frame.
What appears to be the guy's exposed skin is in fact his undershirt or underwear, so we are not talking about a crescent moon or buttcrack here. Incidentally, I do have an amusing buttcrack from the beach from last Monday, and that picture will most likely feature in my PAW for this week.
This kind of opportunistic image is why I always carry a camera. When I walk the dog, I just take the camera around my neck. When I drive to work, I have the camera bag in the bag seat. We have an underground car park at our office, so it is safe to leave it there all day. When we take bicycle rides along the beach, I have the E3 around my neck as well. My motorcycle has a Givi topcase big enough to carry the camera bag. And so on. The best camera is the one you have with you at any given moment :-)
Once again, many thanks to everyone for looking and for the compliments. Nathan On 28-mrt-2008, at 7:21, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
I always preach that one should have a camera around at all times. Last night I was picking up a pizza and happened upon this scene:http://www.greatpix.eu/gallery/4253606_netUM#271383060_f2cf9-O-LB That's why :-) Nathan Nathan Wajsman nathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.frozenlight.eu Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog Book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/128276 _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
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