Archive for the ‘Laguna Beach’ tag
Have You Ever Had That Moment When . . .
Have you ever been taking that really great photo and a hand sticks itself into the photo? Or you never see the street pole dead center in the photo? Or a person, uninvited, steps into the photo with one of those dam Starbuck’s cups that everyone can identify? Or in your eagerness to get that perfect photo, your decisive moment of greatness, you forget to wait for the main characters in your photo story to get into proper position?
Totally.
It’s not easy getting that many mistakes into one photo and having it in focus and with proper exposure.
That’s the problem with these new digital cameras they’re never out of focus and hardly ever under or over exposed.
But they still can’t control the human element – the photographer.
Looks like I can’t either.
Street Photography At The Beach
I always enjoy going to downtown Los Angeles and doing street photography. The only problem is I live in Laguna Beach. So, you say, shoot the sidewalks of Laguna Beach. Love to but they’re narrow and with the parking meter, light poles, and trees it’s dam near impossible to do. If you do take photos on the sidewalks of Laguna you would be inches away from your subjects and they tend to get nasty about that.
Solution is to go to Main Beach, sit down at one of the benches that line the Boardwalk and photograph the people as they pass you. It helps that you’re also drinking your morning Starbucks and eating a really, over the top, brownie. Who’s going to believe you’re taking pictures of them when they see that?
I could get to like this. Wait a minute I have.
You have a nice day now.