Benoit is a visitor to our shores from France, and attended the Neilsen Park Dawn Chorus with his Australian friends. He thought I wanted him to take MY photo but was delighted to pose for my lens. I only took two of him: lucky though, because the other one has an errant head sticking out of his shoulder. This would be better if the boat weren't in the background and if there were blue on the LHS, too. Ideally, I should have taken one step to the right, hopefully encouraging Benoit to turn his head without necessarily moving his shoulders.Still hunting for targets who were standing by themselves, the crowded sand was off-putting and I rushed everything I did. I am considering setting up a mantra to run through my head - wierd idea but to get over this plateau I need a checklist that my head runs through until it becomes second nature.
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Good job under the circumstances, he has such an infectious smile.
Nice soft light too!
I keep denying the photographer's mantra about only shooting in the first and last hour of the day, surely it's just luck......
Another good 'un!
Did either of you see, on ABC last night, a doco about elephants? I was doing 3 hours of piled up ironing and needed something to occupy my head. Golly it was a good story ... and some of the photography had me in tears. And way too often I had to stop the ironing to watch the show ... mmm ...
I am not at all happy with this shot. It is so incredibly unsubtle and doesnt tell me much about him except that his is a grinner. Now if I had taken more shots I may have been able to get beneath this veneer.
It tells me he's confident enough to wear a funny hat, probably smokes, has spent too much time in the sun with his shirt off, but I'm not sure I'd buy a car off him!
I still like the light though.
How would you have told more about him given another go?
I like to see the reflective side of people too. How their muscles look when not in use. What they look like off-guard. When they put on their private-face not the public one.
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