Not a care in the world...

[Rebel]

Not a care in the world by Matthew Roberts, on Flickr

[William W]

Hip-shot?

How many hip-shots that you make are in Portrait Orientation? Do you think about that? Would this one be better in Portrait Orientation?

F/5.6 and 1/500s - both good. Distance and angle to Subjects are both good also.

I like that the second Subject adjusting the glasses - that's 'classic' body language and good timing by you.

WW

[Rebel]

Hip-shot?

How many hip-shots that you make are in Portrait Orientation? Do you think about that? Would this one be better in Portrait Orientation?

F/5.6 and 1/500s - both good. Distance and angle to Subjects are both good also.

I like that the second Subject adjusting the glasses - that's 'classic' body language and good timing by you.

WW

Thanks William, it was a hip-shot and on hindsight I definitely should of shot in portrait orientation!

I'd say about 30% of my shots are portrait are the moment.

[scully]

The idea of a hip shot is too hit and miss for my liking. I usually find a place to sit, place the camera beside me, get the focus, timing, scope of the shot worked out in advance and then sit there and wait until something I like enters the frame. K'ching, press the shutter button. Because the camera is sitting beside me, no one suspects that they are the subject. hehehe.

[Shadowman]

Nicely processed and converted, very good focus on the subjects; I'm sure you could have snapped 5 or more before they spotted you.

[Mike Buckley]

While I agree that a vertical orientation would have worked well, the scene also begs for this horizontal orientation in my mind because of how all the lines on the left and right frame the two subjects so nicely.

[William W]

. . . I'd say about 30% of my shots are portrait are the moment.

OK. Good.

My point was to get you thinking about it. Better that you already are. Irrelevant that you missed this one: because it is good that we have hindsight, we learn from hindsight.

Easy for me to sit down here in the early hours of the morning making suggestions after the fact, but don't interpret that as my not knowing how much thinking and effort it takes to get it 100% correct. . , I am still trying for that illusive perfect shot.

WW

[William W]

While I agree that a vertical orientation would have worked well, the scene also begs for this horizontal orientation in my mind because of how all the lines on the left and right frame the two subjects so nicely.

Expanding on my previous:

My thinking is that some of those lines still would provide a framing.

Not articulated, but part of the rationale for the point I was making was that the heads have not enough air above them.

The feet are clipped and have no grounding.

Assuming that, typical of previous Hip-shots published by Matt, he was moving transversely, then stepping back (shooting wider) was not an option as doing so could create Subject Awareness and thus blow the moment: and he has been working with the FL pre-set so changing FL was not an option . . . hence my thinking that Portrait (vertical) Orientation would have been the better option for this particular shot in this particular shooting scenario.

WW