A Few from Rio de Janeiro

David_Manning

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Looking at a few shots from my recent Rio adventure. Fuji X100:

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dave, such wonderful shots on so many levels. your framing, luck of the scenes, taking advantage of same, freaking great camera etc. love them! love rio as well, one of my best adventures. sure you had a blast. and the food...omg.
tony
 
Thanks very much guys. I have lots and I'm still editing. From the outset, I thought I'd do b&w, but a few scream "color!"

Paul, I was there for four days for work...I'm an airline pilot. I didn't want to sit around the pool and get a sunburn...so I went on an adventure!
 
Only other camera was an iPhone 4S, and I made a couple of great Hipsta shots with that thing. I almost chose JUST my Contax T3 (for stealth), but the light in many of the areas of the favela was very low, and I wouldn't have been able to shoot slide film (which is what I would have shot the rest of Rio with).

On top of the favela I could've used my 28 or even a 24 (which I don't have), and a 50 would have been nice for the closer portraits I made. At the end of the day, though, I don't know how many subjects would have patiently waited for a lens change. I opted for immediacy and content, not perfect focal length or crop. Hell, even my favorite shot above, the two boys, isn't in focus...it happened too quickly. I still like it though...maybe just because I was there, I don't know.

No problems with just a 35 fov. My co-shooter, a local originally from Paris (he's an RFF member) shot only an M8 and a 35 (so he was looking at closer to a 50 for, I think). I haven't seen his shots yet, but he seemed to make it work.
 
David_Manning said:
Only other camera was an iPhone 4S, and I made a couple of great Hipsta shots with that thing. I almost chose JUST my Contax T3 (for stealth), but the light in many of the areas of the favela was very low, and I wouldn't have been able to shoot slide film (which is what I would have shot the rest of Rio with).

On top of the favela I could've used my 28 or even a 24 (which I don't have), and a 50 would have been nice for the closer portraits I made. At the end of the day, though, I don't know how many subjects would have patiently waited for a lens change. I opted for immediacy and content, not perfect focal length or crop. Hell, even my favorite shot above, the two boys, isn't in focus...it happened too quickly. I still like it though...maybe just because I was there, I don't know.

No problems with just a 35 fov. My co-shooter, a local originally from Paris (he's an RFF member) shot only an M8 and a 35 (so he was looking at closer to a 50 for, I think). I haven't seen his shots yet, but he seemed to make it work.
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I've never been personally, but from shots I've seen it can be tight in the favelas, and a 50 would be too long in some cases. If you only carry one focal length, 35 seems like the one to take to Rio.

However, slide film would be great for shots like the one from your Hipsta-phone
 
some cool captures. really like the one of the woman (with her arm strong in diagonal) and the one of the huts in foreground and mountain background. what a great place to shoot, reminding of me david alan harvey's work in latin america, etc.
 
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