People in the park

Jeroen

Shooting people in the park
These are part of a (still unfinished) serie that I'm doing.
All shot with a no-zoom 50mm lens.

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sweet caroline

I'm really liking the light and the lines of #5.

Caroline

adbsgicom

+1 on #5.
You may want to re-post over in Street & PJ as well.

thomasjm

+100 on 5. That is a great shot and I can see something like that on a postcard or a poster. Thanks for sharing.

l.k.madison

#5 reminds me of the Tour de France logo

But being the musician's wife, I can't help but love #2 - if for any reason at all because there's a melodica in that picture (Honey, are you reading this?). Those little guys pop up in the weirdest places.

I agree with the comment about posting them in PJ, they're all very candid yet still stunning.

Is it just me or am I the only one that can't figure out what's going on in #1, how is he upside down?

ivar

I like #5, but I really get drawn to #3 as well

Ik heb dit naar het 'straat' forum verplaatst, Jeroen. (= I've moved this to the Street forum).

Jeroen

Thanks for the comments.

I'm doing this as a series for Photo School. I have to pick 12 and I want to present them as a day at the park from morning to evening. Still have to do a night shot

I went back to the park today and took my 135mm.

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14 Yes, that's the same guy in the same position as a few days back.
I think I'm going to crop off a bit of the right and the top of this photo.



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Jeroen

Btw, my 135mm is a 40 year old 135mm f2.8 Revuenon-Special that I have for my Pentax SP1000.
I screwed it on my 350D using an M42-EOS adapter. So nothing works anymore I'm shooting on Av and focus manually.

Quincy T

Really love #4, #5, and #14 especially.

rainbow

A few are interesting. But all share the characteristic that you are quite far and disengaged from the subject. There is no distinguishing the 50 v 135 because it looks like you just stood further away with the longer lens rather than have them fill the frame more.

I would encourage you to get closer so that the main subject (a person) fills up one-third of the frame and see if you are pleased with the results.

bdcolen

Jeroen wrote:

Thanks for the comments.

I'm doing this as a series for Photo School. I have to pick 12 and I want to present them as a day at the park from morning to evening. Still have to do a night shot

I went back to the park today and took my 135mm.

Love your original 4&5, and some of these as well. But actually this second batch illustrates a problem you had with some of the first batch - you needed to get closer. Don't use the 135 to do that - use your feet.