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candid portrait made in farmer's market.
candid portrait made in farmer's market.
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Location
Candid portrait made at the farmer's market in Netanya, Israel.Time
Around about mid-day.Lighting
A mixed combination of daylight, incandescent and fluorescent available light. No flash or other equipment used.Equipment
Shot with hand-held Nikon D750 and Nikkor 24-120mm/F4 lens.Inspiration
I've long been a People In-Public Street photographer. Always observing and visually filtering out potential interesting subjects. When I saw this lady sitting in a bakery stall at the market, the whole situation seemed incongruous with her certainly not looking the part of a vendor surrounded by loaves of bread. I spontaneously raised the camera and shot, with her unobjecting, inquisitive gaze looking straight into into the camera. I smiled and thanked her and moved on.Editing
I usually only tweak lighting and composition of the hand-held RAW shots in LightroomCC. In this shot I was unhappy with the colours and environment, so I coverted to monochrome, masked out the surrounding locale using LightroomCC and NIK Silver Efex Pro to create this 'studio -like' informal portrait. This image is not in my 'street' folder, but it is in my 'fun' folder.In my camera bag
When I'm out wandering the streets hunting, I only carry a single camera and lens. Depending which side of the bed I got out of, it could be my tiny, pocketable Nikon Coolpix P7000 or the D750 or my Nikon F100 if I decide to shoot film. The lens is either my Nikkor 50mm/f1.8 or the 24-120mm/f4. I usually wear cargo-pants to carry spare batteries, memory cards and/or film and a blower brush and lens cleaning cloth.Feedback
For spontaneous candid people shooting, I believe that getting bogged down by equipment issues distracts and all the better shots are missed. There is no time to think as that fraction of a second of 'the decisive instant', is gone, never to return. No second chances. This means knowing your kit intimately to enable you to fly on autopilot and concentrate fully on finding the subject. A bare minimum of kit is much less tiring and distracting to schlep around for hours. Using a minimum of equipment also helps you to know your kit. The other imperative is learning to 'read' and anticipate human behaviour. This can only be done by many hours of observation and practice, practice, practice. Thirdly, aggresitivity with the camera causes strong reactions that are not naturally candid. It is much easier to be user-friendly, smile and go with the flow.
