Project365 is an endurance challenge. Very much like my other beloved hobby, cycling, it needs time, training and dedication. It takes only a fraction of a second to take a photo. Particularly in street photography, the right moment exists only for a blink of an eye, and you have to be ready to take the shot right then. The trick is to be ready for that precious moment. One has to anticipate: how things are developing, changes in the light, movements, situations, gestures, facial expressions. One has to be ready to compute all these, and adjust camera settings, angle of view, one's own position and participation or nonexistence etc. accordingly. In many cases getting this perfect exposure one has to plan, design, search, lurk, do, redo, edit, re-edit... or then, one has to settle for a bit less. Especially if one's got a full-time job, family and other hobbies. * * * These 365 photos have some brothers that didn't make it in the limelight. In 2014 I took 11,...
Great shot Esko! There's a really professional feel to it! Objects well balanced in frame, no motion blur jet the image gives a sense of furious competition and ambitious energy to get there first, even the event is documented by the sign.
VastaaPoistaThanks! I was happy to find that place, and doubly so as there were so few official photographers that I had as good place for shooting as possible outside the media fencing. 85mm f/1.8 was the only possibility. If I had been nearer to skaters, something like 35mm would've been great (DX sensor).
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