Capture a Stranger

[jgredline]

[Bakerman35]

I was riding my bicycle and got this as I was going by.

[rylan]

here is my first contribution to this thread!
shot with the Canon 300L f/4 from across the harbour in Prince Edward Island Canada!

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[Greg McCary]

here is my first contribution to this thread!
shot with the Canon 300L f/4 from across the harbour in Prince Edward Island Canada!

Welcome and thanks for playing....

[Tyson L. Sparks]

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[shootme]

Some great shots, here's my contribution.

[Ballen Photo]

here's my contribution.

As portraits go, Your image in the upper left turned out "Great"! Is this a cropped version?
-Bruce

[shootme]

Hi Bruce, yes all 3 shots are cropped as I don't like to get to close when I take a shot of someone I don't know. Thanks for your feedback

[jgredline]

Here are a few taken with the K10D and Sigma 135-400 and Tamron 1.4TC-mc4 ...

Exif data should be intact.
All images are resized only. No cropping, no PP, at all..This is how they came out of the box.

I spotted this beauty from a distance.


So I started to walk in her direction...


Then she turned around and I took another quick grab shot...


After getting chased away by the ''PRO'' shutterbugs, I made my way around to a distant pier AND the hunt was on and so I shot her again...


Busted, but she approved and kept smiling for me as I kept shooting....


One more with a tight crop.


Here is another one. This one was a tough shot. Shooting at very long range and shooting from the sunlight into to the shadows...

[Old Timer]

One from a Civil War encampment Saturday.

[erikzen]

Strangers on line waiting for a hot dog

[jgredline]

The polarizer had an unusual affect....I used it on a wide angle 28mm F/2.8 tokina on film...I rather like it.

[DrRoebuck]

Welcome and thanks for playing....

That is awesome.

[Old Timer]

This gentleman was having a good time listening to some old time fiddling.

[shootme]

Nice capture Old Timer, here's one more for the thread.

[Greg McCary]

That is awesome.

Thanks Doc

[Old Timer]

Nice capture Old Timer, here's one more for the thread.

Our image have a lot in common shootme. This country lets everyone one decide what their religion dictates that they do of look like. God Bless America!!!

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[shootme]

OK some more fun here, there are some super shots (in this thread I mean, not necessarily mine). All these people are strangers.

[shootme]

OK just one more, no it's not me.

[Wild Wassa]

'The Three Disdainful Looks'.

Three poster boys. The poster on the column is perfect. When I took this image, I thought of the early imagery of Lizette Model, when she photographed the smoke filled parisian Nightclubs.





'Stargate SG-1'.

This is what Col. Sam Carter looks like when she puts on her togs ... very yummy.





I'm going to do a series called 'Heros vrs EMOs' or 'Gods vrs EMO's' I'm not sure of the title yet, it needs a bit of thought. Capturing strangers as Gods makes the game harder, more anti EMO, rather than setting up shots like they do. The EMO's are flooding the web at the moment with their brand of Narcissum, pseudo self harming, to the detriment of the web and artists ... I dislike EMO images and their neurotic vanity intensly. Here are my first two images, so far.

'The Last Breath of Narcissus'.

Narcissus' last breath was underwater. This image is dedicated to all EMOs obsessed with their own reflections. Narcissus was the original drowning EMO ... I couldn't get a classic pastey marble tone or even that washed out porcelaine EMO look ... so I bronzed this shot. This image was taken underwater with the swimmer above me.





'Diana in Leaves Green'.





The Roman Goddess Diana is the 'Huntress'. Diana was a friend of Luna the Goddess of the Moon supplanting Luna as the Goddess of Chastity. EMOs howl at the moon while looking cheesely virginal ... but Diana was also a friend of the Goddess Ghost Queen Hecate, a Goddess from the Dark Side. Diana although a protector of Flora and Fauna and the Wilderness and supposedly all virgins, was also well versed in the Dark Side.

One day Diana, stole Icarus' steel javelin point (see the shot above).

Some say the EMO Icarus, couldn't be told anything and that Icarus flew too high, too close to the sun ... and the wax that held his wings together melted and he fell to his death. This is not how it was though, that is the cop-out EMO version.

This shot shows Diana about to take the EMO out with his own steel point ... because he didn't listen to his elders.

Diana was a Goddess. Icarus was just an EMO fly boy, so no real contest ... but it took a good throw from from Diana never-the-less.

Warren.

PS, My next capture of a stranger will be a female archer. Portraying one of Diana's counterparts. The Goddess who killed the EMO Acteon. I'll shoot that tomorrow, at one of the archery ranges.

[jgredline]

Wild wassa, I love your style....