Capture a Stranger

I posted this in the Critique forum but it applies to this thread as well...

Loupey
Talk about composition...This is a great example of a properly composed image....Love the colors and your stranger really takes this picture from being average to a superb photo... :)The expression on his face is priceless....Love it..and the motion blurr really works here as it shows a man trying to be faster that the shutter....By the way, what shutter speed did you use?

Thanks for the kind words, Javier. Really just a fortunate coincidence. Although my focus point was on the foreground doors, I was really eyeballing the entrance opening at the end of the hallway to get the right comp and angle. But as soon as I saw movement back there, I clamped down on the shutter release since I didn't know what to expect.

He was in and out of the picture in about 2 seconds. Got off 6 frames. I like the top center one too but his right arm is in an odd position.

The shutter speed was 1/20s and hand held thanks to the I.S.

Guy fishing in late fall

I never liked to ask for a shot. I have lost some fantastic faces doing just that. What I started doing was stand 6'-8' from a wall and focus in. I would walk back and forth to the wall till I got good a judging 8', then I was ready. I crossed my arms and held the camera on top of my left arm, above the elbow. All I had to do was spot a subject, walk up to my 8' distance and press the button. Once someone committed if I had taken his photo and I told him it just went off and I had not focused it. Then shot was a good one.
Another was was using a 150 mm and shooting from a distance.

Like they say-practice, practice, practice.

Nice ones Loupey and BigCity

Thanks, Frog.

Here's one from our Blizzard a little over a week ago. Kinda felt bad stopping this guy from his back-breaking job of shoveling a foot and a half of snow from his driveway.

He paused just long enough for me to get 2 shots. Can you tell he is smiling :)

Forgot about this photo. Taken in 2005.

Roger

LOL that lady is almost mimicking the statue. Such a cool capture Roger!

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Originally Posted by Alison

LOL that lady is almost mimicking the statue. Such a cool capture Roger!

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That's what caught my eye at the time but only had my 1999 3 Mpx Fuji Finepix compact with me.

Roger

Good eye Alison...I would have missed that...Great photo readingr and ''loupey''...Your on fire, another great capture....

I do like that one Roger.

I snuck up on this guy this winter:

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Originally Posted by readingr

That's what caught my eye at the time

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If she'd been looking to her left, then she'd have been mirroring the statue, which would have been even cooler :)

A few from the recent past. Some may have been posted before (I forget).

But all were perfectly nice strangers :)

Does this count as a stranger?
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/4702/starngergb5.jpg

This is a wonderful thread! I'm glad I found it. Now I'm gonna be searching for pictures of strangers :)

I caught this fella at a local coffeehouse last night....

IndyRick
I agree that this is a great thread. I keep requesting that it should be a sticky, but so long as people keep contributing, it will be a sticky by default. :)

two of them (strangers)

Here is "my" stranger from Bike Week....I love taking shots like that. All the photo's are great, I enjoyed them all. Great thread. Im new here!

Hi, Lopi. Don't think I've seen any of your earlier posts so welcome aboard, nice shot, and I love your signature.

A belly dancer who performed in a local restaurant. I took this photo last summer.


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If she'd been looking to her left, then she'd have been mirroring the statue, which would have been even cooler :)

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Don't know what the book was but she was oblivious to everything. Bow Street Magistrates is just behind me and there were loads of photogs/film crews waiting for someone to come out. She just carried on reading.

Roger

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Hi Folks. Shot this with my New Pentax K1OOO (film)
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Great shot greg.

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