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This weekend I put my new camera through its paces. Saturday I was up at Pt Reyes, about 50 miles north of San Francisco, and on the coast. A special place. Then today, Sunday, I roamed around San Francisco. I guess I took about 200 pictures. Not all were worth showing, but there were some. Here are two. The first is Pierce Ranch at Pt Reyes, a restored dairy farm from the 1850's. It's extremely photogenic. But I discovered I had some settings wrong in the camera and they came out too blue. Easily corrected in photoshop, but clearly I'm still learning the camera.
The other is from the Mission section of San Francisco. One of the real problems I've discovered with doing urban street photography is trying to find a scene that is not obscured by parked cars. I don't know how Joe does it... he seems to find places without cars. In S.F. that seems nearly impossible.
Walking around as a tourist in your own town can challenge our jaundiced eye. Things seem so familiar so why bother taking a picture... I'm still too inhibited to take pictures of people face on. I feel I need permission. Actually, you don't in a public place like the street. But you might get yelled out, or worse. There are lots of homeless sleeping in doorways, and drunks on the street. But I can't make myself take their picture. Their lives seem so desparate and pathetic that I can't add more disrespect by objectifying their image. Lucky for me I like walls.
There's more to come on the photo blog.
