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Contemplation

^{1/320th at F4.5, ISO 800 (24mm)}

We're back and back to the street photography. 

Shots like this with people are sitting on stoops are pretty tough to get in a candid fashion.  You do not want to disturb the scene.  Your presence and your camera are very obvious and so you have to shoot from the hip and guess the framing without looking through the viewfinder.  Also, you need to guess how far the person is away and pre-focus as you come upon the scene.  With the bars and different elements in the scene, auto-focusing will rarely work.

It can take a bit of practice to get decent at.

^{1/320th at F4.0, ISO 800 (24mm).}

 

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