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By the way, excellent photography, andersju.
Thanks, and yes it was that i didn't want her to notice me. I was 3 feet away from her!
Generally, I use the back LCD to frame in the subway (not a hip shot, right?) but I guess I have less balls than Davidson in the subway in the 80's...
That first one though is film right? It has that look. No LCD, I take it on that one.
To me that feels the most successful of the lot.
Nightfly: thanks! But they are indeed all digital and all done with LCD.
aaaah alright, and I thought I was some kind of 'street photographer' sometimes, silly me 😀 and thanks for enlightening me about my ideas of photography too, suddenly it all makes perfect sense!
seriously, I'm not going deeper into that discussion, it's most probably leading nowhere.
but yes, I'm going to continue being dishonest here and there and shoot from the hip occasionally.
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Good luck with that, I'd rather shoot from the hip than miss the shot entirely.
If you can´t frame the shot perfectly, what´s the use of shooting it? Just trying to find out if you got lucky?
If you can´t frame the shot perfectly, what´s the use of shooting it? Just trying to find out if you got lucky?
Well, many rangefinders don't let you frame the shot perfectly anyway. Additionally, there no luck involved. If you use the same focal length all the time, you tend to know what you are going to get anyway... even from the hip.
You're thinking it's all about luck, but it's not.
Through practice you can start to get a feeling of what will be in the frame. The way you hold your camera combined with the familiarity of having used a certain focal length for a while can really get you a good feel of what will be in the frame and in what way. The shots that I posted before in this topic were not 'lucky' shots, I prefocused my lens, saw an opportunity and quickly took the shot when the subject was in the right place relative to me and my camera.
I'm sorry if you somehow feel this way of shooting is inferior to bringing the camera to your eye and carefully creating your composition, but when you're in the streets with a ton of people around, this is not always the best way to get your shot.