June 2007, Luxembourg (Fuji Sensia 200).
Yesterday, I sold my first print so I’m currently grinning from ear to ear. 🙂 Thank you to RedBubble and the person who bought the print for making this possible. If you are interested you can check out my newly streamlined print purchase page. Click on the ‘Purchase Prints’ link under the photo for more information.
August 2007, Paris (Fuji Superia 400).
Sometime back I saw an old US TV program of Bill Moyers on Garry Winogrand which I highly recommend you see. You can see the program here (video hosted on Jim Arnold’s site). While I haven’t seen enough of Winogrand’s work to form an opinion on his photographic style the program is quite interesting for the gilmpse it offers us of his street shooting technique. He has this sneaky self-conscious style of photographing where he whips up his pre-focussed Leica with a wide angle lens and snaps a photo before the subject has even realized that a photo has been taken. It all happens in the blink of an eye. The bewildered looks of people whose photos he has just snapped attest to this. I couldn’t catch his super fast action even though I was waiting for it. He was that fast! I seriously doubt if one can get away with such a shooting technique these days. I think an angry mob would descend on such a photographer and hand him over to the anti-terrorist police 🙂 But it is amazing that Winogrand came away with some great photographs using such a technique for I think he had less than a second to frame his shots. His anticipation and timing must have been something.
August 2007, Paris. (Fuji Superia 400 Xtra)
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August 2007, Paris.
Fuji Superia 400 Xtra
August 2007, Paris.
Fuji Superia 400 Xtra
August 2007, Paris.
Fuji Neopan 400
August 2007, Paris.
Fuji Neopan 400
August 2007, Paris.
Fuji Neopan 400
August 2007, Paris.
Here is the conventional Eiffel Tower photo I was talking about yesterday.
Fuji Neopan 400
August 2007, Paris.
I wanted to start my Paris photo series with a conventional photo of the Eiffel Tower. Instead, I decided to post this shot of two children in the Montmartre area as the taking of this shot, even if it lasted but a few seconds, was so special. These two were so happy when I started to take their photo that they both broke into beautiful smiles (which I hope I’ve captured). Even after I finished taking this shot and started to walk away they continued to smile and wave so happily that I couldn’t help but smile and wave back. Their innocence and happiness was highly contagious 🙂
Fujifilm Neopan 400