So I was walking around the plaza in Santa Fe on the 4th of july, and I saw this girl and her rickshaw and decided to get a portrait of her. I’m a big fan of these candid portraits. She of course saw me shooting, because I stepped right out into the street to get this direct shot of her. I frankly think she half enjoyed having her picture taken. That and I was pretty obvious because I was using my 70-200 with the hood on, so my lens was huge. Not exactly the kind of lens that is great for staying under the radar. I had to crop this shot way down, because I didn’t have time to zoom in as much as I wanted to, and I’m still amazed at how clean the shot is after cropping it down so much. I probably cut out about 2/3′s of the shot.
This shot was taken at 1/1250, ISO 500, and f/2.8. Did you really expect that it wouldn’t be at 2.8? Although after this engagement shoot I had this weekend I realized that I’m going to need to shoot a little more stopped down, just because I’m not getting the kind of DOF that I really need when taking pictures of 2 people at the same time. You’ll see some of those engagement shots pretty soon. Post process was nothing intense, just a little saturation, contrast, and sharpening. But this is pretty much straight out of the camera.
Hope ya like
-Dave
Hey Dave,
Nice shot! I love my 70-200 and have found the same as you – with more than one person, I’ve got to stop down a bit to retain focus on everyone’s faces. Around f/4 has been pretty good for me.
Love your stuff – keep it coming!
Cheers,
Tom
Thanks Tom! Yah I think I’m for sure going to have to start stopping it down a bit. (little tear). It’s nice to know that at least one person is looking at my blog. Thanks again for reading.
I know the feeling – I have recently started my own blog, but not getting too many hits yet. No one’s even left me a comment yet! Ah well. I’ll keep putting stuff up and hoping…
Nice picture a little shame about the white car that steals a little focus.
Yah it would have been nice to be able to either underexpose initially, and then bring her back in post, or do something, but it was too quick of a shot for me to really think about everything.
Hey tom the reason you haven’t gotten any comments yet is because you’re forcing people to login first. I don’t want to create an account on some random blog, that I prolly wont remember. Just make commenting open to anyone. Yes you will get some spam, but so what it’s not that big of a deal to deal with spam comments.
Thanks Dave – actually, I didn’t even realize it was set that way…I assumed the default setting would allow everything. I’ve changed that setting now. Thanks for the head’s up!