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Images => People, Portraits, Street, PJ & Cityscapes => Topic started by: Ron Scubadiver on May 13, 2016, 15:26:59

Title: The Selfie
Post by: Ron Scubadiver on May 13, 2016, 15:26:59

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7299/26988205475_54762f3b5c_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/H7RBev)Selfie in the Cathedral (https://flic.kr/p/H7RBev) by Ron Scubadiver (https://www.flickr.com/photos/57349111@N08/), on Flickr

April, 2016 in the Sagrada Famalia in Barcelona, Spain

I have other photos from the trip here and will be adding more: https://ronscubadiver.wordpress.com/category/spain/ (https://ronscubadiver.wordpress.com/category/spain/)

Title: Re: The Selfie
Post by: elsa hoffmann on May 13, 2016, 18:00:12

What a lovely series - captured nicely Ron!

Title: Re: The Selfie
Post by: Ron Scubadiver on May 14, 2016, 13:44:08

Thank you Elsa.

Title: Re: The Selfie
Post by: stenrasmussen on May 14, 2016, 15:57:37

This one really work Ron. Lots of complememtaries/opposites; slim, voluptuous, black, white, orange, blue, sexy, solid, etc.

Title: Re: The Selfie
Post by: JJChan on May 15, 2016, 10:38:19

Ron
Your B+W of the 3 girls is outstanding I think because it is timeless - nice processing and framing

JJ

Title: Re: The Selfie
Post by: Ron Scubadiver on May 15, 2016, 13:49:41

Thank you Sten and JJ.  The one thing I did differently this trip is I kept a 50mm mounted most of the time instead of a 20-120.

Title: Re: The Selfie
Post by: elsa hoffmann on May 15, 2016, 16:27:17

Quote from: Ron Scubadiver on May 15, 2016, 13:49:41

Thank you Sten and JJ.  The one thing I did differently this trip is I kept a 50mm mounted most of the time instead of a 20-120.

and whats your opinion about that exercise?

Title: Re: The Selfie
Post by: Ron Scubadiver on May 15, 2016, 20:43:13

Quote from: elsa hoffmann on May 15, 2016, 16:27:17

and whats your opinion about that exercise?

It's the old prime vs zoom thing.  For the 50mm to work for me it requires fairly dense pedestrian traffic so I can get close to people without spooking them.  The viewfinder is much brighter, the camera is light enough to use one handed and mentally it is easier to frame to a single FOV instead of messing with the zoom ring.  I used the 50mm the last day in Buenos Aires and was surprised how well it worked, so I decided to try it again in Barcelona.  Not every 50mm (or 50-ish) lens is going to be small and light, so I think this gambit works best with the non exotic and relatively inexpensive AF-D and G models.