December 1, 2011

Jay Maisel Workshop #11


Jay like this photo because it zeroed into what was important—her suspicious eying me—yet still provided adequate context as to what was going-on.  Jay did say that this might have been a time where he would have opened-up the lens to f/5.6 to blur as much as possible around her eye. The lady’s name is Juda and she is an camera-woman who works with independent film makers in New York.  We talked before I took any photos of her.  She gave me permission to photograph her, but did not want me to interrupt the filming that she was doing.  So, I tried to stay as far away from her as possible during my shots.

I wanted the photo to be totally about how she was eying me.

Enjoy.

Camera settings:  Nikon D3, Nikon 70-300mm f/3.5-5.6 at 180mm, ISO 1,000, f/8 and 1/180th of a second.

Post ProcessingNone!

4 comments:

  1. OK, this is right out of the camera jpeg. What would you do to it if you could use Photoshop. To me, it tells the story just as it is.
    Ted

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  2. Like the look and like the pix.
    Hal

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  3. I think the look is terrific but I wished that you had zoomed in even closer so that all you were seeing was her hand and her eye. I know you would have lost the context but I am not sure that is important. I believe that the gesture of her look would still made the photo successful.
    Alen

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