Posers
There is a thing that happens a lot with the kids here and while at first it's cute, it gets a bit annoying if you spend the whole day shooting. They essentially want you to take their picture so they can ask you for money. They see you with a camera and jump into your shot with a smile. When near kids who I could sense were going to disrupt a scene, I'd pretend to shoot in one direction, let them run into the frame, and then spin 180 degrees to make my shot before they ran back. This image shows doorways I'd been shooting and then seconds later with a kid in the shot. I don't like any of the images but it serves as an example.
Later, I ended up above one of the burning ghats and framed up a shot with an old door and a faded Lonely Planet sign when a kid jumped in. While at first this shot was just another example of photosensitivity gone bad, it's grown on me. His handless, cross-eyed presence there in the lower part of the frame adds a nice compliment to the lonely planet text. I didn't change my original composition to accommodate his presence. Something I might have done normally. And in the end, I think it works. My attraction to the whole Lonely Planet thing in the first place was to make a subtle commentary about tourist culture. Having a human in the shot adds nicely.
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Later, I ended up above one of the burning ghats and framed up a shot with an old door and a faded Lonely Planet sign when a kid jumped in. While at first this shot was just another example of photosensitivity gone bad, it's grown on me. His handless, cross-eyed presence there in the lower part of the frame adds a nice compliment to the lonely planet text. I didn't change my original composition to accommodate his presence. Something I might have done normally. And in the end, I think it works. My attraction to the whole Lonely Planet thing in the first place was to make a subtle commentary about tourist culture. Having a human in the shot adds nicely.
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1 comments:
I have been addicted to these blog posts so far and I have to say the lonley planet one is a very Decisive Moment shot and I too think it works well.
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