'Action Portraits'

June 6th, 2011
I rarely take photographs of people, and when I do I never ask them to pose, but I do like to grab a fortuitous shot that occurs naturally, so lets see a few more!


(Taken at the Beamish Museum of Northern Life. The volunteer guardian of this print shop was aware and quite happy to be photographed but I took care not to interrupt his thoughts).
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Hairdressers, Old Spitalfields Market
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I never ask people to pose either, but just snap when they are engaged in an activity. Here is one of the more recent.

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I love PJ portraits. Wish I had time to do more of them. Here's one of mine - we were actually headed to our location for a model shoot when I grabbed this.

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She's trying to catch the rain in her mouth.
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Wow! What an amazing crop of results in such a short time!
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I have a couple - mostly of my neice and nephew!







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@rich57 @andycoleborn - That's hysterical! :) Haha!
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@jinximages @andycoleborn brilliant! at last the two pieces come together!!!
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@rich57 @jinximages lucky to look and just hoped to get my version uploaded before anyone else sneaked in...
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This guy was doing some extra hours at work... :)
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This has been a rare thing here this week - the toddler sleeping. Managed to catch it last night.

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My favorite one of my daughter (:

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What a wonderful variety! It's so interesting to see how different people interpret a theme and nice to have an opportunity to compare.
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Here's one from a nighttime shot at our church's annual fiesta.

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Like, you I rarely take portraits at all. However, I recently had the chance to snap one of my ultimate musical heroes - Franz Nicolay - in action, at a music festival near here. (One of the artists I work for - Axel Loughrey - was playing on the same stage, the day after, so I was able to get 'round behind the stage with my Artist Pass to get pictures of Franz with the heads of the audience getting in the way)

So, here's a shot I took of Franz, while he was playing his set -

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From yesterday...

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I hate posed portraits, so when I'm taking photos of people I almost always try to get natural unplanned shots of whatever they are doing. I took quite a few of them while traveling last week, but I particularly enjoyed this one:

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@marubozo .... Great Job, Jeremy ... reality portraiture!
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One card from a team set I shot, designed and printed for my son's Little League team.

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The guy learning to use the jigdoll (limberjack) is my husband but he was too engrossed to notice me.

Practised motion blur on Morris dancers and got this.
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June 7th, 2011
This is by far one of the best action shot i took with an unsuspecting model:



=)
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and oh, here's another unsuspecting model:



my officemate deep in thoughts. =)
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Well captured!
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I have many because that is what is appealing to me most in photography. Here are f













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@yoelao ... you have captured some great natural expressions there, Yoella! I rarely photpgraph people, but I am encouraged to try a bit harder!
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Snoring away the morning
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i'll stop now
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I forgot i had this one. .. .
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Just took this one today.
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June 8th, 2011
She knew I was going to be taking photos, but not exactly when. I really struggle with pictures of people in general, so try to capture them when they don't know about it.



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ok stupid question how do you post a picture on here?
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June 8th, 2011
@talleygirl ...

To post a picture here it must already be in a 365 album and all you need to do is view it and copy/paste the code marked 'share'
June 8th, 2011
I love all of yours ;)! Here are a few of mine:





June 8th, 2011
Took a new one yesterday:

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Fun with Mentos and Coke:

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June 9th, 2011
I love all of these.
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Ed
First my "last" photo on this project:



And my favourite photo of this project:

June 9th, 2011
Such a great variety of subjects ... looks like this can run and run!
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