Street Shooting Before Sunrise

[Robert Watcher]

Anne and I were babysitting our granddaughters in the city yesterday and today. I headed downtown at 5:30AM - and as light broke through (before the sun rose) - I drove along Dundas street with my camera perched on top of the open window of my van - - - hand holding steady and finger on the trigger. I set the ISO to Auto and the Exposure mode to Shutter Speed Priority at 1/1000'th second. My goal was to catch a person in each shot with their feet near the bottom of the frame or even cut off - as I paid attention to where I was driving. I got these 8 shots for my efforts.

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Rob

 

[Robert Watcher]

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Rob

 

[Asher Kelman]

It's a different mood in the early morning when just a few folk are up and about or going to work. Very few fashionable peacocks strutting around when the stores are still locked and not enough folk to impress.


Asher

 

[Asher Kelman]

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Rob,

In each case, you isolate one character with a novel background. It's a kind of deconstruction of society that, by noon is hardly possible to fathom!

Asher

 

[Paul Abbott]

I'm not as attached and in tune with these images as I am with your other streets shots of people, over on your website. I think those there are great efforts in comparison to these. I guess I could call these a 'drive by shooting' style...

 

[Asher Kelman]

I'm not as attached and in tune with these images as I am with your other streets shots of people, over on your website. I think those there are great efforts in comparison to these. I guess I could call these a 'drive by shooting' style...

Paul,

This style of shooting and then arrangement in a long sequence of like images, provides an entirely uniq

 

[Asher Kelman]

I'm not as attached and in tune with these images as I am with your other streets shots of people, over on your website. I think those there are great efforts in comparison to these. I guess I could call these a 'drive by shooting' style...

Paul,

This style of shooting and then arrangement in a long sequence of like images, provides an experience of moving fast between locations and building a sense of the workings of a grand metropolis. It's an important way of looking, not just at each individual corner and its denizens, but rather to build up a feeling of the whirring motors of the beat of a place at that time of the day you choose to observe.

So don't undersell yourself. The works provide a coherent experience! Kudos to you for that!

Asher

 

[Asher Kelman]

Paul,

I'd like to commend Mitch Alland's work to you in OPF, but the links are broken. Look at his pictures of Bangkok here for an initial tasting of that work. Even better, look here as you will get both pictures and critique for an against it.

Asher