Peter Bargh

Sights & Sounds
November 6th, 2011

Photo365 – Day 310 – Almost a candid

I went to the Whitby Goth Festival today. I decided to travel light with the Olympus Pen E-P2 and used its 40-150mm zoom. The intention was to take candids, but as usual as soon as you point the camera at anyone and they spot you they switch into pose mode. I lost count of the number of times I asked them to look elsewhere. I prefer natural looking shots than posed ones, as posed expressions in such situations tend to look false.

I got lucky with this one. It’s cropped and for some reason the bloke didn’t think I was taking his photo and only realised when I’d pressed the shutter. So what we have here is a really natural glance that fortunately looks right into the lens.

A really enjoyable day, and I got one of my favourite portraits to date taken with the iPhone, when the Olympus’ battery was exhausted. I’ve uploaded it to my ePHOTOzine portfolio

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July 3rd, 2011

Photo365 – Day 184 – car boot candid

I went to a car boot sale this morning looking for old items for steam punk props. When I’d finished i took a few sneaky hipstamatic Up close candids. Four or five of my candids where actually looking right into the lens of the camera. I think they knew what I was doing, even though I though I was being discreet. 

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June 4th, 2011

Photo365 – Day 155 – Unlucky

I went out in the centre of Worksop with the Oympus EP2 and 14-42mm zoom to do a bit of street photography. This was my favourite from the short session.
I’ve titled it unlucky for obvious reasons.

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April 17th, 2011

Photo365 – Day 107 – carbooters

I popped over to Marsh Lane carboot sale this morning and took the iphone to record some of the visitors.

I parked myself near the exit and took candids as the punters walked past or left. I held the camera phone at waist height and pressed the shutter as people walked into view.

It’s a bit awkward with the hipstamatic app because the shutter is on the screen and not easy to press from a weird angle while you’re looking like your not taking pictures.

It was a bit hit and miss, especially the composition, but I ended up with a good selection of shots.

This is not my favourite but is one of the better ones to illustrate carboot sales. The bloke was looking back at a meat seller who was mid flow in his sales patter.

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