"Meeting Place"
"Morning Constitutional"
This is a completely new technique for me as I usually shoot in a controlled environment where the lighting and posing are carefully considered and the pose and composition set up in camera. Shooting from the hip in this way gives you no chance to look through the viewfinder and with a lowish focal length kit lens you have to go in quite close. If the angle of the camera is slightly wrong then you either get all pavement or all sky. It was fun to try though. The other problem with kit zoom lenses in these circumstances is that they are slow lenses and on a dull day like today it is very hard not to get camera shake.
I had to put the ISO up to 400 which on my camera has quite a bit of noise. Oh for the day when I can have a faster lens and a higher spec camera. But such a camera and lens wouldn't make me a better photographer. The good photographers of the past had cameras less powerful than mine.
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