Strangers

Posted by Daniel (Scranton, United States) on 22 July 2007 in Cityscape & Urban and Portfolio.

Spent some time in Indianapolis doing some street work on Friday. I may have mentioned this before but, i just love street work. It's impossible to get payed for it but, it is just so enjoyable. I took this shot with a 85mm prime from the other side of the street. I love working with my prime lenses as it forces you to think about composition where a standard zoom has the tendency to make you lazy. believe it or not this shot was not cropped. for composition.... I could have taken a little bit off the left side of the pic but, I was just so proud of the way It was framed... so I left it in. LOL

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Comments (13)

MichelG from Koksijde, Belgium

good composed shot and lovely colors. what you say about primes is true but that one become lazy in use zooms depent on the person. a good photographer think always over the composition. just my 2cent :)
keep up the good work daniel

22 Jul 2007 3:35am

Dimitrios from ATHENS, Greece

a fine shot

22 Jul 2007 4:15am

wolf from Brussels, Belgium

heaps going on in this picture... great shot!

22 Jul 2007 4:21am

colin from stockton-on-tees, United Kingdom

Fantastic again!!!

22 Jul 2007 4:24am

aggie from Singapore, Singapore

Interesting that the two gentlemen just cross at the moment you captured the shot. Reflections on the glass doors create more interest.

22 Jul 2007 8:56am

Kheoh Yee Wei from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

there is something in the movement of passing by of both of them amazed me,like that moment is so transcient,too beautiful not to be prolonged..hmm,i guess that's what i thought about this image,Cheers.

22 Jul 2007 11:09am

Harald from Frankfurt, Germany

A great Street-Photography. I can fully agree with your arguments to us a prime lens. In the last time i recognize that i use my primes more often. I am really interested to know how you get this beautiful toning in your pictures. Did you dragonize it ? Anyway, i like your very nice and professional photos.

22 Jul 2007 12:49pm

@Harald: Not really sure what dragonizing is so I would have to say no to that question. I use a lot of adjustment layers and layer masking if that helps you. The toning was done with a orange filter...

Daniel