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Living on the Streets

Robert Watcher

Well-known member
This fellow was moving through the Central Park, garbage can to garbage can - emptying the last few drizzles of soda pop from cups, into one cup - that he refreshed himself with once it was full enough. Bits of throwaway food from bags as well. I’m not sure how he got these cigarettes or if he managed to scrounge a few Quetzels together to buy one from the several vendors around the park that sell individual cigs to passers by - but I caught the shot of him late in the afternoon today - lighting up.

Olympus E-M1 w/45-150 kit lens @150mm - f5.6@1/800’th - 6400 ISO

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Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
This fellow was moving through the Central Park, garbage can to garbage can - emptying the last few drizzles of soda pop from cups, into one cup - that he refreshed himself with once it was full enough. Bits of throwaway food from bags as well. I’m not sure how he got these cigarettes or if he managed to scrounge a few Quetzels together to buy one from the several vendors around the park that sell individual cigs to passers by - but I caught the shot of him late in the afternoon today - lighting up.

Olympus E-M1 w/45-150 kit lens @150mm - f5.6@1/800’th - 6400 ISO

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Superb photograph! What focal length did you use. Was it fully zoomed out?


Good think there is not rampant disease or he would get very sick!

Amazing how much food folk throw away. So women tend to diet by eating only half of the hamburger or whatever they eat from a food stand?

Asher
 

Peter Dexter

Well-known member
I am surprised he is so warmly dressed. Had no idea it is so cold there, presumably in Quetzaltenango. Looked it up though and see now why he was wearing such a warm coat. Lucky him with his cigarette. If you are not a regular smoker a cigarette with nicotine can produce an impressive "high".
 

Robert Watcher

Well-known member
I am surprised he is so warmly dressed. Had no idea it is so cold there, presumably in Quetzaltenango. Looked it up though and see now why he was wearing such a warm coat. Lucky him with his cigarette. If you are not a regular smoker a cigarette with nicotine can produce an impressive "high".

Yes very cold here in Quetzaltenango from early evening until early morning. Beautiful springlike days though, that for the locals still dictate sweaters, coats and scarves.
 

Robert Watcher

Well-known member
Superb photograph! What focal length did you use. Was it fully zoomed out?


Good think there is not rampant disease or he would get very sick!

Amazing how much food folk throw away. So women tend to diet by eating only half of the hamburger or whatever they eat from a food stand?

Asher

Thank you Asher. It is very powerful image for me. Sad in a lot of ways.

My focal length was 300mm in full frame equivalent. The man was moving and as result I shot with a higher shutter speed - generally I prefer 1/1200’th sec - but because it was late in the afternoon, I dropped the shutter speed to 1/800’th to freeze action and eliminate camera shake at that long focal length.

With the open aperture being f5.6, it necessitated an ISO setting of 6,400. A matter of content being far more important than ultimate image content. I was sitting on a bench looking down onto the tipped out lcd screen while resting the camera with lens fully extended, on my leg.

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