KillRamsey
Hall of Famer
- Location
- Hood River, OR
- Name
- Kyle
I'm really enjoying the specific examples, and the discussions there of. To that end...
The ONE time I've tried to intentionally walk around and "shoot street" (whatever that specifically means), I took the X100 to Harvard Square on my lunch break. I decided through some quick trial and error that the only way for me to not be noticed was to not hold the camera up to my face, and indeed to not be looking at the camera when I took the picture. So I had it around my neck, in manual focus mode, at f8, and auto iso. To focus it, I would pull it away from my chest enough to see the back screen, then hit the AEL/AEL button to focus it on something about the right distance away. Then I would frame mentally without looking down at the camera at all. It gets easier, but I screwed some of them up.
But when you do it right, people don't see you and they don't react to the camera. And even if they did look over at me, once they saw I didn't have a camera up to my eye, they quickly forgot about me and kept doing whatever they were doing.
Overall it was a nerve-wracking thing to do, and I was pretty intimidated. But it was also fun, which ... is one of the reasons to have this hobby.
The ONE time I've tried to intentionally walk around and "shoot street" (whatever that specifically means), I took the X100 to Harvard Square on my lunch break. I decided through some quick trial and error that the only way for me to not be noticed was to not hold the camera up to my face, and indeed to not be looking at the camera when I took the picture. So I had it around my neck, in manual focus mode, at f8, and auto iso. To focus it, I would pull it away from my chest enough to see the back screen, then hit the AEL/AEL button to focus it on something about the right distance away. Then I would frame mentally without looking down at the camera at all. It gets easier, but I screwed some of them up.
But when you do it right, people don't see you and they don't react to the camera. And even if they did look over at me, once they saw I didn't have a camera up to my eye, they quickly forgot about me and kept doing whatever they were doing.
Overall it was a nerve-wracking thing to do, and I was pretty intimidated. But it was also fun, which ... is one of the reasons to have this hobby.