street photography

[FrankS]

Before and after. It's not pretty, but it's hard to look away.

I was at a motorcycle event held every Friday the 13th in Port Dover, Ontario. I rode down on my 1981 BMW R100 with a Petri rangefinder from the 1950's or 60's. This event draws a biker crowd that includes outlaw motorcycle gangs (Hells Angels, Outlaws) on Harleys, vintage bikes, sport bikes, and (unfortunately) increasingly, cage drivers coming to gawk at bikers. (It's turned into a tourist event.)

Anyway, I was walking around snapping steet pictures when I happened upon this woman and a few of her friends. (I don't know why but I just knew she was going to flash. One of her friends had a disposable camera.) She saw me and my camera and I indicated with only gestures that she pose with the police officer. He saw me, she walked up to him, and they posed, simply because I had a camera. She was looking around and acting in such a way that made me think that something interesting might happen, and sure enough, something did.

 

[FrankS]

Before:

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/4009/password//sort/1/cat/500/page/1

 

[FrankS]

After:

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/4010/password//sort/1/cat/500/page/1

note: The technical qualities of the actual photographs are better than these scans, but are not perfect.

 

[Peter]

Good Lord! I must go to wash my eyes with sterile saline! 😛

 

[hoppinghippos]

It must be the photographer that incited her to flash, when are you shooting again Frank? I wanna go with you! 😀

 

[Doug]

Frank, you seem to have a very sensitive detector for "something about to happen"! Good, uh, "catch". :-O

 

[Pherdinand]

heheh, great, frank 🙂

 

[Russ]

Re: street photography

Before and after. It's not pretty, but it's hard to look away.

Anyway, I was walking around snapping steet pictures when I happened upon this woman and a few of her friends. (I don't know why but I just knew she was going to flash. One of her friends had a disposable camera.) She saw me and my camera and I indicated with only gestures that she pose with the police officer. He saw me, she walked up to him, and they posed, simply because I had a camera. She was looking around and acting in such a way that made me think that something interesting might happen, and sure enough, something did.

Frank

After many many years of street shooting, I have been flashed many times. For whatever reason, there are some females that enjoy having their "charms" recorded on film. If they have imbibed in the "focusing fluid" they are more inclined to pose for our camera's, with little or no encouragement. The street fairs, Waterfronts, Festival's, etc, are fraught with these potentially offensive situations. And therefore I highly recommend that we shooter's stay away from these type of activities and events.

Jorge & Joe, perhaps it's time to start a "street flashers" gallery? And I apologize for starting this thread a couple of month's ago. NOT!

Russ

 

[back alley]

that would be jorge's call entirely.

my recommendation would be to password protect it😉

joe

 

[FrankS]

Besides the obvious attraction to the female form here, the other thing I like about this photo is the expression on her face. She is really jazzed up by what she's doing. She is certainly not a super-model, and most of us are not either, but we all should feel this good about our sensuality/sexuality! You could not say she is repressed in this regard. Good for her!

 

[Doug]

Both these gals are obviously getting a thrill!

 

[nwcanonman]

Ces le vive' - Well done Frank! ~ ; - )