People

[mishti]

I couldn't resist capturing this Parisian couple through my Nikon D70. Love their pose!!

[toriaj]

Welcome to the forum, Mishti. Good to have you here, not to mention your great pics

[mishti]

Thankyou so much toriaj! (Is that your name? I'm sorry if it's not! I tried to look your profile up - for your name - but couldn't find it)

One of my passions in life is photography and I chanced upon this website while looking for some tips and techniques to create 'multiplicity' or 'cloning' pictures. I've been taking pictures for about two years now and almost always find myself taking people shots. The emotional reactions that a person's picture is capable of stirring, I believe, cannot be replicated by inanimate subjects.

Here's another picture that I clicked this summer. I almost feel awful hiding in ambush with my lens and hopefully waiting for the sad little girl to burst into tears. But oh well, a photographer's gotta do what a photographer's gotta do!

[SpecialK]

Technicians through a window at the Page Museum/La Brea Tar pits.
1/45, f5.6, ISO 800, Pentax 10-17mm at 10mm.


Rolling down the grass slope on the side of the museum.
1/1000, f11, ISO 800, Pentax 50-200 @ 200mm.

[toriaj]

Thankyou so much toriaj! (Is that your name? I'm sorry if it's not!

No worries, my name isn't in my profile anyway It's Tori.

...The emotional reactions that a person's picture is capable of stirring, I believe, cannot be replicated by inanimate subjects.

I have to agree. I haven't taken many pictures of people, but I'd like to take more, especially now that I live in a slightly more inhabited location

I almost feel awful hiding in ambush with my lens and hopefully waiting for the sad little girl to burst into tears.

I would LOVE to be doing that. How do you get into position without her seeing you? REALLY long lens? I had fun "sniping" pictures at my family reunion. People didn't like knowing that I had taken their picture when they weren't looking, but they sure liked the photos when they saw them

[mumbles420]

My little bro(Bradley)and his son(Jayden)on Christmas day.

[TNB]

I got to practice my people skills yesterday.

[grant575]

In Japan Comming of Age Day is held in early January and celebrates a person moving into adulthood. While the guys wear a smart suit the girls get dressed up in formal kimonos for the occassion. On the day, all around Tokyo you will see women dressed like this. It is interesting to see the mix of the old, a kimono, with the new, a mobile phone firmly attached to the ear.

[SpecialK]

Waiting to buy tickets at the Long Beach aquarium. 1/250, f6.7, 200 ISO, Pentax 10-17mm @ 11mm.


Diver in tank stuck the starfish on the plexiglass. 1/4, f4.5, ISO 800, Pentax 10-17mm @ 17mm.


Before...1/20, f3.5, ISO 800, Pentax 10-17mm @ 10mm.


and after...1/15, f4, ISO 800, Pentax 10-17mm @ 13mm.


The "touching" tide pool...1/250, f8, ISO 800, Pentax 50-200mm @ 95mm.

[danidabi]

I like this next one due to the subject. my fiance plays with these gas and remote powered vehicles. I also like how the background is blurred out.



These are 2 little guys on their way home from school I imagine, mom is outside of frame.



I really love the extra zoom, nobody knew I was taking the pics