I'm going home

[mugge]

I spotted this gentleman walking along a corridor. I liked the rustic look of the surrounding walls and floor. This is very much a fancy of mine. C&C welcome

[Shadowman]

Nicely seen and captured.

[RBSinTo]

Ole,
I very much like the concept, but I think the execution suffers both from a lack of depth of field and motion blur which detract and degrade respectively the composition.
Robert

[FootLoose]

Nice idea, Ole, but as Robert said, it suffers from the execution. Were you in a hurry to grab this shot before the person exited the frame?

[Manfred M]

+1 to what Robert and Greg have written. This looks like an unplanned grab shot with the execution errors that Robert mentions. A 1/25th second exposure is pushing your luck for this type of shot; chances of motion blur are very high.

[mugge]

Thanks for commenting on my photo. I took the photo with camera held knee high. I love taking my chances with grab shots and will persevere even though I realise my mistakes. That particular day I took many photos at knee high level and I am getting better at it. This is going to be my project for the next couple of months, taking photos at 'extreeme' low level.

[RBSinTo]

Ole,
I think you did well with respect to leveling the shot and the basic composition, but you'll need to use faster shutter speeds to compensate for the lack of two-handed stability because of your method of shooting from knee-height, presumably with the camera held in one hand.
Robert

[Manfred M]

If you like going for grab shots, then you need to set yourself up for success.

As Robert has pointed out, knee height shots (unless you drop down onto your knees) do not let you brace and hold your camera steady, so you are going to have to shoot with a fairly high shutter speed to compensate. This suggests a high ISO and wider aperture as well.

Another well-known "trick" from the pre-autofocus days is something called "Zone Focus" where an appropriately wide aperture setting was used to ensure everything within the "zone" will end up being "sharp enough". Henri Cartier-Bresson was the master of this technique in his street photography. He definitely did not focus the camera for every shot; when he brought his camera up to his eye, all he had to do was frame the shot.

[RBSinTo]

If you like going for grab shots, then you need to set yourself up for success.

As Robert has pointed out, knee height shots (unless you drop down onto your knees) do not let you brace and hold your camera steady, so you are going to have to shoot with a fairly high shutter speed to compensate. This suggests a high ISO and wider aperture as well.

Another well-known "trick" from the pre-autofocus days is something called "Zone Focus" where an appropriately wide aperture setting was used to ensure everything within the "zone" will end up being "sharp enough". Henri Cartier-Bresson was the master of this technique in his street photography. He definitely did not focus the camera for every shot; when he brought his camera up to his eye, all he had to do was frame the shot.

Manfred,
I assume you're referring to "hyperfocus" which I can still do with my manual focus SLR primes and rangefinder lenses because they have Depth of Field scales. Unfortunately and for reasons no one has ever explained, my auto-focus lenses lack the scales. which would be very handy on occasion.
Robert

[Manfred M]

Manfred,
I assume you're referring to "hyperfocus" which I can still do with my manual focus SLR primes and rangefinder lenses because they have Depth of Field scales. Unfortunately and for reasons no one has ever explained, my auto-focus lenses lack the scales. which would be very handy on occasion.
Robert

Exactly what I am referring to. Some of my autofocus lenses have them, others (especially zoom lenses do not). Knowing my equipment well enables me to get around the lack of DoF scale on the lenses.

This off the hip shot was done exactly that way.

[mugge]

For these shots I generally use manual focus and f11 or f8 and my Fujifilm X100F has a feature whereby I can zone fous readily. I had the camera set for auto instead.

I love 'navel shots.' Shooting at f11 with my 23mm Fujifilm I know that somewhere between 6m and infinity will be sharp.