I like taking pictures of people...but only if they don't notice the camera. Therein for me is the problem, to get far away enough you have to break out the longer lenses... and a big fonkin' lens just gets you noticed quicker.
I like honest pictures, can't do poses. We hates them.
Those portraits are wonderful; really great snapshots of life on the move. Something struck me, though, as I was looking at pictures from all over the world: No one looks happy or relaxed. Everyone looks serious, determined, preoccupied--but no one looks like they're just enjoying themselves. It's actually a little disturbing. I often find that commonalities bind people together. These pictures seem to suggest that we're bound together by the things that pull us apart: worry, tension, isolation, being elsewhere instead of being present. Certainly photography can capture this better than any other medium in terms of immediacy. At the same time, these images show a world that is not necessarily a hospitable place to live.
A lot of the earlier photography in those sets seems to use quite a bit of color saturation and overexposure...not a bad thing necessarily (I prefer the look myself) ... the later sets seem to capture the "human in the wild" idea that I prefer, however, the distance of the subject loses intimacy with the viewer (IMHO).
But overall, thank you, I always like being exposed to new photographers. There's a Russian photographer (she's an indie and an amateur) whose photography (again, IMO) is really quite promising: ruprixru is her LJ name, her website is
Only one of the shots I included in my batch was posed, and it's just because the woman had such a great smile and attitude. I'm pretty satisfied with all of them. Did you have a moment to look at the gallery?
I like honest pictures, can't do poses. We hates them.
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But overall, thank you, I always like being exposed to new photographers. There's a Russian photographer (she's an indie and an amateur) whose photography (again, IMO) is really quite promising: ruprixru is her LJ name, her website is
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I like the doggie pics best. The little brown collie-mix (?) is adorable. I'll take 5.
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