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NYC Shoe Shine *

This is #1 of my strangers Candid photos.

 

I've never owned what might be considered a reasonably good camera and have recently made the jump from disposable point and shoot to a canon S100 & EOS 600 after being inspired by a friend, a couple of colleagues and a fella that I spoke to who takes street photos.

 

I know nothing about photography & hope that one day I might use the cameras I own to their full potential.

 

So, my first photo with a half decent camera! Also my first candid street shot!!

 

This was taken on the S100 on the 'Auto Setting'.

 

The photo was taken at the end of November 2012. I don't really know why I wanted to get this picture? I hadn't decided at that point that I wanted to learn about photography. There was just something about the scene....

 

The guy in the coat looked like my image of a typical Italian New Yorker. His features, behaviour, body language and interaction with the shoe shine man was great to watch. They were like old friends. I didn't really get the shot I wanted. The guy smoking would lean his head back to exhale the smoke. Thats the shot I wanted, but, he finished his cigarette.

 

Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the100 Strangers' Candid Flickr Group page.

 

www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers_candid/pool/

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Uploaded on December 13, 2012
Taken on November 19, 2012