milkplus-mesto
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Today, I spent two hours in the best surroundings, with my favourite camera doing street photography.
Last week, I started in my hometown, which proved to be a big mistake. After three hours, I had 28 photos to show for my effort. I decided that I'd have to go to that big city place down the road, London!
I turned up at Tate Modern, went up to the members lounge and had a coffee, before spotting a man and a woman out on the balcony taking pictures...
"Excuse me, I'm doing an art project on portraiture and was wondering if i'd be able to take your portrait."
Cue lots of clicking from my ME Super, and a nice (but lightweight) conversation about photography - what lens, what film etc. (the man was carrying a D700 and suitably expensive 24-70mm lens) This made the best start to the day I could have wanted.
A few minutes later, and I'm outside. I spent the next hour and a half gathering 120 portraits of people from all sorts of countries, and all of them were genuinely nice people. From 5 year olds to 85 year olds, I met some very interesting and co-operative people.
Now, fingers crossed I can turn my predicted A* grade into a reality.
So, thank you to the people of london for making my day a success. I'll probably head back next Saturday.
Last week, I started in my hometown, which proved to be a big mistake. After three hours, I had 28 photos to show for my effort. I decided that I'd have to go to that big city place down the road, London!
I turned up at Tate Modern, went up to the members lounge and had a coffee, before spotting a man and a woman out on the balcony taking pictures...
"Excuse me, I'm doing an art project on portraiture and was wondering if i'd be able to take your portrait."
Cue lots of clicking from my ME Super, and a nice (but lightweight) conversation about photography - what lens, what film etc. (the man was carrying a D700 and suitably expensive 24-70mm lens) This made the best start to the day I could have wanted.
A few minutes later, and I'm outside. I spent the next hour and a half gathering 120 portraits of people from all sorts of countries, and all of them were genuinely nice people. From 5 year olds to 85 year olds, I met some very interesting and co-operative people.
Now, fingers crossed I can turn my predicted A* grade into a reality.
So, thank you to the people of london for making my day a success. I'll probably head back next Saturday.
