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Candid People

Postby Geoff M on Wed Oct 12, 2011 8:56 am

Given my location, on top of a mountain, we often have people launching themselves off the top of the mountain with a flimsy bit of material overhead to return them back to ground. While I did take some images of the paragliders here are a couple of shots of people that turned up to watch the spectacle.

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Re: Candid People

Postby Mr Darcy on Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:10 am

For me the strongest of these is the first. The visible hang glider gives a reason for the people to be looking off camera in this shot. With the second while they are clearly looking at something, their gaze takes me away from the photo so it loses impact. The third is saved a little by its voyeuristic tendency, but still lacks somewhat. PS you have a nice hill :)
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Re: Candid People

Postby Reschsmooth on Wed Oct 12, 2011 11:21 am

Mr Darcy wrote:For me the strongest of these is the first. The visible hang glider gives a reason for the people to be looking off camera in this shot. With the second while they are clearly looking at something, their gaze takes me away from the photo so it loses impact. The third is saved a little by its voyeuristic tendency, but still lacks somewhat. PS you have a nice hill :)


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Re: Candid People

Postby gstark on Wed Oct 12, 2011 12:19 pm

Reschsmooth wrote:
Mr Darcy wrote:For me the strongest of these is the first. The visible hang glider gives a reason for the people to be looking off camera in this shot. With the second while they are clearly looking at something, their gaze takes me away from the photo so it loses impact. The third is saved a little by its voyeuristic tendency, but still lacks somewhat. PS you have a nice hill :)


Summed up adequately.


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Re: Candid People

Postby ozimax on Wed Oct 12, 2011 2:21 pm

First one is an excellent "photojournalistic" image. Great stuff.
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Re: Candid People

Postby Geoff M on Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:15 pm

gstark wrote:
Reschsmooth wrote:
Mr Darcy wrote:For me the strongest of these is the first. The visible hang glider gives a reason for the people to be looking off camera in this shot. With the second while they are clearly looking at something, their gaze takes me away from the photo so it loses impact. The third is saved a little by its voyeuristic tendency, but still lacks somewhat. PS you have a nice hill :)


Summed up adequately.


Ditto


My thoughts exactly, its good to get thought of others, thanks for the feedback.

In the first image I was shooting with my 70-200 @ 70mm. I would like to have got a wider view but at 70mm I was struggling due to surrounding confines. The image is obviously from a sligthly wider view but there where other people included along side the two gents which distracted from the overall feel which has been acheived with the square crop.
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Re: Candid People

Postby zafra52 on Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:55 pm

I tend to agree with the above. The first
pictures tells a story; the others don't.
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Re: Candid People

Postby aim54x on Thu Oct 13, 2011 8:25 pm

I think Greg has nailed this one!
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