Upon coming upon this young lady I thought she was reflecting deeply upon something - something pleasant. Perhaps memories of a loved one, maybe just gazing out at the ocean, maybe just enjoying a moment in life. I don't hang around long when I do these, but when inspecting it later for publishing I realized that...sigh....she was on the phone. You can barely see it there, but sure enough all of my naivete and my dreamy imagination of an artistic interpretation were blown to pieces. Rats. It's really hard to get a street shot these days without catching a subject using a phone, and I try hard to filter out such shots. Here I thought I'd grabbed an introspective piece only to find out it was just another example of the cellular leash. Man, 2021 is not starting out well at all.
Beautifully candid street shot Ron so much going on, suits the monochrome tones perfectly, I'm not comfortable doing candid street shots either generally when I do I set my camera on silent shooting and that makes me feel much worse a bit sneaky if you know what I mean:)
@pcoulson Thanks very much, Peter. I also put the camera on silent shutter, but even more sneaky, I use the A7 RIV as a kind of decoy. I got myself an A6500 precisely for the ability to shoot silently, and that hangs around my neck, looking like an innocent supplement to my array of cameras, when in reality that's the one taking the photo. I've gotten pretty good at subtly aiming the relatively tiny camera with my nonshooting hand. I have to set the fstop at a relatively high number just to make sure depth of field is deep enough to compensate for the inability to line up the shot. Trust me, for every street shot that's fit for keeping, there are about 200 that are unfit. ;-)
