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Killing Time : Black & White

Robert Watcher

Robert Watcher

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Looks like a staged shot - but it is candid, unmanipulated.

A friend of mine, took one of the kids skateboards and was doing tricks down the street. Their eyes were on what was going on around. Two watching my friend, and the other talking to a young fellow who was passing behind me.

This is the area they were hanging out when we approached them. The boy in the back kept moving around - sometimes standing behind the boy on the left side. I waited or adjusted my position until I got this good symmetry (without giving any direction). In fact when the boy in front noticed I was taking a photo of him, he shyly turned away from me and that was the end of shooting. We then just watched together.



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Killing Time

Olympus E-PL5 w/14-42 kit lens @14mm : 400ISO fast shutter speed : Taken at 1:20PM

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Paul Abbott

New member
A shot like this does need a series of photographs to back it up. Can you do something with the images in the backstory to support this initial image? It would only need a couple more. Only so that the image is not looked on coldly and without any understanding of what is going on.
It's a nice social photograph with a dynamic angle...the corner of that wall really thrusts the kids forward in the scene and makes them the centre of attention.
 
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