Great shot. A real winner, and you really nailed it. For me, it has a touch of the "Cartier-Bresson's" about it.
How do you find the MkIII for street photography? Great focus and high ISO capabilities aside, the times I've gone out with mine, I've felt about as inconspicuous as a bull in a china shop.
MarnixdS wrote:
Very nice capture. I'd correct the slight tilt.
it looks to me that the horizon is fine, it's just that there is a "ramp" you can see it when you look at the step.
This is a pretty powerful image. This (i am assuming) homeless person lying on the street over a grate (trying to keep warm?) while these other folks just are sitting eating lunch oblivious to the world around them.
That is a great shot indeed. I think in my mind the only thing that would have made this shot better would have been bumping the ISO up a bit, give it that grainy look you know, make it seem just even a bit more raw than it still really is.
Wow Ted, nice shot. It does look like you could have bumped up the ISO to get your shutter speed up... 1/30 at 75mm is pushing it. Aperture Priority can bite ya sometime. Would have been terrible to have blown this because of camera shake. Really nice though...
Superb. I thought at first the foreground figure was posed, until I read the detail of the shot. Great tone, and the lack of any prominent horizontal reinforces the discomfort of the social scene. A classic shot.
Thanks everyone.
Just to assure you - this is not a staged photo. I do not know why homeless pick this place. The iron grid is not over railway tunnels where a warm air would be pushed up. Then again, apparently there is a whole network of tunnels under Sydney, so you never know what this leads to.
Processing: a single click B&W preset in Lightroom I found somewhere on the net.
The issue of horizon here is very difficult as there pavement in the foreground slopes down to the right and the one in the background slopes up. I took a horizontal line that is visible in the window as my reference.
Higher ISO would be better but I just came out of a very bright street and simply had not time to fiddle. I'm usually fine at 1/30s even with a longer lens.
1d3 as a street camera is not an ideal choice. However, if you think about it, my 30D is not that much smaller. No one looks at your camera and notices the extra inch of body under the lens - they see the big glass first. So, I act as a "sheep" tourist with my sizable backpack and if you set yourself into that frame of mind it works out OK (with any camera) provided you do not place big flash gun on top. Most people do not expect to be of any interest to anyone else so they assume you are photographing someone or something else.
Once again big thank you for all the positive and encouraging comments.
