Shotgun Stare

Mumbai Taxi Driver II

So we're in a cab. I've got shotgun. Which puts me on the left side here. We pull up next to another cab. Not unusual. I notice the guys hands. He's not looking at me. I raise my camera up to shoot his hands and he turns around. He stares right into the lens. I keep shooting. He doesn't change his expression one bit. I shoot about 3 shots, changing the focus to his face instead of his hands. I lower the camera and smile at him. He smiles back. Off we go. A nice little moment.

I decided black and white was the way to share this image. The colors were fine but the simplicity of the image was made more powerful with the subtraction of color. One of my old photography teachers told me once that color has to be part of the story or it doesn't belong. In this case, it added nothing so I took it out. For geeks out there, I usually use Photoshop's Channel Mixer to do the conversion.

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