Candids from town.

Gamefreak501

Gamefreak501

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I was standing around in town freezing my nads of for nearly an hour getting candid shots. I ended up filling my 1gb card but I only like about 36 of the pictures I took.

Anyway, usual Irfanview editing involving borders. Nothing else done, straight from the camera. Anyway, here are 3 of my favourites:

1

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2

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3

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And finally my favourite bird pic of the day:

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All taken with my 75-300 lens @300mm. Unfortunately, upon close examination of my pictures, I can see some CA...ah well, can't complain really!
 
Cheers for the critique,

I have never really done any Candids before...but sounds like I need to think more about how I go about doing them!

It's funny though, I've been doing photography for a year now but I still need to do more learning, I do like how the colours came out from these shots...but there is no substance!

Here are two more that are a little more 'exciting' but still not really there:

Riding through town

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Queuing for the hole in the wall

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Any points and tips greatly appreciated! :)
 
Cheers for the help everyone - I am very shy when it comes to candids...which is one reason why I used my longest (and slowest) lens.

Anyway, that was a good gallery there, cheers!

I'll probably do some more between lectures tomorrow, maybe use a shorter lens to get out of the shyness barrier. Out of this lot, what should I really think about using: 35-105mm 3.5-4.5; 70-210 f4; 50mm f/1.7; 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6, or that 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6?

Also, one final question...what's the worst situation anyone has been in where someone has reacted badly to having a candid taken, and what did you do?

Well, that's all for now!
 
Raymond Lin said:
There's a trick you can use, now you have digital so film is not a problem which makes thigns evern easier. What you use us a 50mm lens, hang the camera on the strap over your neck in front of your chest. Set it manal to everything, focus, aperture, exposure etc....walk around with it like that wiuth 1 hand on the trigger. Snap when you are close to some subject, people take less notice when you are not holding the camera to your face.
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I think I'll try that today! Much much easier to hand hold and lug around then a long heavy 75-300mm! Also, the working distance will be much shorter (20-30cm instead of 1m+) and the focusing will be quicker too!

Just need to use it in a small crowd of people or larger and that will be fine :)
 
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Hmm, I'm trying again Tuesday. I am going to bring my 18-70mm kit lens with me as well as my 50mm and stop being so shy! As for the 5D, it doesn't have 'zone matching' as is, but does have an 'Auto' setting.

edit: actually, scrub that, I'll be trying a few Friday on my way to work :)
 
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