Capture a Stranger

[Frog]

well i don't know what happened...try again

[jgredline]

Here are some strangers I captured today...These where shot through plexi glass at the La Brea Tar pits.





I love this pic..

[jgredline]

Here is one from the other day....This homy was resting on top of someones grave....So sad....

[jgredline]

Here are a couple more strangers..
Sorting through pics, I spotted these...Surely many of you folks have some...Post them up.

[Greg McCary]

[jgredline]

Greg
That is an awesome image!!! It is a classic...That fellow in that building at that tme of night...Wow...

[Greg McCary]

Thanks Javier......

[Jimmy B]

Heres one from me.

[jgredline]

Very nice Jimmy, I take it your a Kasey Cane fan?

[Jimmy B]

Javier, I know this guys wife. She is an official on the NASCAR Truck series.
She really liked the shot of her Hubby!
JB

[jdanvers]

jgredline - you have some ~really~ good stuff posted in here. I'm new - just registered yesterday and haven't posted anything at all (this is actually my first post). I really like the images of the women at the tar pit (?), the 2nd one in particular. Was the plexi-glass just ~really~ clean? You were able to place lens right against it? Used a polarizing filter? Really nice...

Also - on the opposite end of no reflections are the images of the women in (a museum?) where the reflections of them ARE the image per the thread.

Again - really nice work. ;)

-=- jd -=-

[jgredline]

JD
Welcome to the forum...You will find that this is an extremely great place with a bunch of great folks...I look forward to seeing your images...To be perfectly honest, I did not even know I captured that lady in the image...I was actually shooting the skeleton of the bird..The lady was a bonus...I cropped out the skeleton and kept the lady....Sometimes, I get lucky.

Thanks Javier...

[jgredline]

squerly_q
Welcome aboard...
What a nice capture!!!! and yes, this is a great thread...One of my Favs...This thread deserves to be a sticky...I look forward to seeing more of your images...
Thanks javier

[Loupey]

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

[jgredline]

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?

[Loupey]

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.

[jgredline]

Does this count as a stranger?

[Bigcity]

Guy fishing in late fall

[txhalfblood]

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.

[Frog]

Nice ones Loupey and BigCity

[Loupey]

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

[readingr]

Forgot about this photo. Taken in 2005.

Roger

[Alison]

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

[readingr]

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

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

Roger

[SmartWombat]

That's what caught my eye at the time

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