Best or Wurst? Maybe both?

M38A1

bdcolen

Fun shot. This is one where I'd work it, waiting to get the best girl with the wurst, rather than the paper towel though.

M38A1

Thanks....

I think the only way I could have made the shot with her holding one was if I purchased it. Maybe next time.

In general, do these types of shots lend themselves to the person looking directly at the camera, or just doing their thing which may involve looking somewhere else? If it's the eye to camera contact I seem to be missing in my shots, I can work on that over time.

bdcolen

M38A1 wrote: »

Thanks....

I think the only way I could have made the shot with her holding one was if I purchased it. Maybe next time.

In general, do these types of shots lend themselves to the person looking directly at the camera, or just doing their thing which may involve looking somewhere else? If it's the eye to camera contact I seem to be missing in my shots, I can work on that over time.

No, no, noooooooo, Mr. Bill! (At least as far as I'm concerned.) What I'm going for is not being noticed, catching the subjects doing whatever they're doing, without realizing that they're being photographed. Once they engage with you, you're taking a kind of portrait - which is fine if that's what you're going for - rather than capturing a slice of life. There are, of course, many fine photographers who do engage with their subjects. I believe I mentioned a little while back that I had heard a presentation by the great Bruce Davidson in which he said he always asked his subjects' permission to shoot them, which makes me view his art in an entirely different way: it's still brilliant photography, but it's not what I thought it was.

M38A1

Ah! Grasshopper beginning to see the light with the subtle differences. And the objective of street pj is to tell a story, so her holding a sausage or preparing it for a customer is more closely aligned?

With this new found knowledge, then this one would fall more into the portrait category, right?