There is a ton of construction on one of the main roads by the office... this is where the workers hang out while eating lunch when the weather is nice...
This is similar to a couple of previous lunch time shots I have posted :)
Great shot, now you just need them on top of steel beams on a high rise, then you will have a tribute to a photo I have seen before. Great pov on the lunch line!
@38mm oh pish tosh! who gives a fig for DOF! ba haa haaaa! yeah... i know... tx for bringing that up... what would you have done? i'm thinking i should have either made an effort to get perfect focus on the 2nd guy from the left, or gone for a wider DOF (f/10 or something)... but it occurs to me that i don't really know WHAT i should have been aiming for... and of course, it is cropped from the original and probably a little more chutzpah on my part would have helped ;p
@northy To be honest I was joking a bit, this sort of shot dosnt' really need it. But with the lens you have not much you could do anyway I guess, I think you said 5.4 is the widest you can go on that lens and you won't get a great deal of DOF with that when zooming. Don't zoom, get closer? That's why I like fixed focal length lens, you have to get closer plus you get wider aperture.
Pick up a dead cheap film cam with a fixed len's and try playing with that, film rules for street. This is digital thing is just a passing fad anyway :P
@38mm get closer? ok... i'm brave... but not THAT brave... i'm 5'2" and those were 10 burly guys!!!! ;p can i just get a fixed focal length lens for the digital? pretty please? (altho' that scares me too... i often want to get closer than a 50 or even 35 would allow for and i'm already killing myself lugging the beast to and from work every day... lugging a spare lens as well is just not likely to happen)
@northy I was thinking something like my Fujica, the sort of 60's camera's that were compact but still fully manual (but only 4 shutter speeds so its easy enough to work that out, 1/250 if its sunny, 1/125 if overcast, 1/60 if in the shade, 1/30 in low light). The main advantage being that you have to pre-focus the lens, so you set the distance to 1 metre, 1.5 metre etc and just walk up to that distance and click. It is so fast no one is really ever sure if you took a photo or not. Plus its small enough for me just to always keep in my bag.
@sjodell the exif is off... it was actually 12:19pm... i'm wondering if that's my camera and whether i needed to do something when the time changed for daylight savings?
Pick up a dead cheap film cam with a fixed len's and try playing with that, film rules for street. This is digital thing is just a passing fad anyway :P
Good one!