so here we are, back on the market and this time we're
easing you in to photographing the people. Now when you're photographing the people it's
human interaction you're looking for.
It's people doing things together, a laugh a smile a joke, something like that.
the best way to ease your way into photographing strangers using our
markets scenario,
is to get permission from one of the stall holders
to photograph them and their stall and spend time around them, and stay around that one place rather than looking
up and down for opportunities, because opportunities will present themselves.
also if the person running the business is okay with you being that there's a
pretty good chance of that customers wont mind so much either.
that's very important when you do this sort of thing
to make sure you don't get in their way too much,
um... because you know they're running a business and make it clear to them
that their welcome to say you're in the way now, go away.
and don't be offended by that either this is all about working with them as well.
their giving you something you want, so
so make sure,
you don't get in their way, and always give them some pictures as a thank you.
because we're going to be working in one place around a stall,
i'm going to use,
a very wide angled- lens, and i'm going to stick with my ten to twenty zoom,
my main zoom is going to be my feet.
for which i mean if i need to get further away or close to
i move myself. I don't just twiddle this.
Also that keeps the pictures consistent,
it means all the shots i do on this are going to have the same feel to them. That wide angle look.
so setting up a camera
i don't know what the lights going to be so, we're going to worry about that when we get
there.
er,
i'm going to set the ISO quite high. Er, it's not a terribly bright day,
i'm gonna set mine,
er, let's have a look, i'm goin gto set that up to six-forty
could get up to eight hundred ISO.
therefore i know my shutter speed
should always be fast enough
as i'm shooting, i don't want to be thinking about this when i'm shooting, i want to be concentrating
on what i'm doing and the people and what's happening around me.
Aperture, i'm using aperture priority or erm,
Av.
so we set aperture priority and i'm going to go with an aperture of about five point-six
i think.
but a very wide angle lens you tend to have quite a long depth of field
even at five point six anything this more than about three feet in front of you
should be fairly sharp.
uh... but i don't think it matters too much if it isn't. Use the smallest aperture you can,
so what we'll do when we get into position is just check what the shutter
speed will be in the light we're in, because i don't know what that's going to be yet.
because uh... we're not there
so let's go
and find ourselves someone to spend some time with. i have kind of sewed the idea
in somebody's mind when we were here last time, so i'm just going to make sure
that's still ok with them.
Are you still alright for us to do some pictures for you, the stall and
everything going on?
is that alright? yes raring to go.
great, you're a top man, thank you.
so what we going to do? is it alright if Jane just tucks in the corner there?
so she can see, and i'll kind of ,
alright that's very kind of you, thank you.
Brilliant, oh yeah and if i'm in the way tell me.
alright, i wont be upset, we're going to go
Exciting isn't it, because
i have no idea of whats going to happen, or what i'm going to get or not get or
whatever, anyway
right i'm going to come in here with the guys because
isn't unusual angle it's a different point-of-view.
i will do some shots outside round here as well.
But how often do you see it
from their point of view, that's what's going to make the shot interesting
overtime concentrate on this interaction between
what i'm going to try and concentrate on is the interaction between Gary and Shelley and the others in here
and their customers.
So let's see what happens.
whey. Hello,
are you coming in too? you going to come in here.
because I've got an extra camera i'm going to loose that so i'm going to stick that up here.
so its out the way, this is really cool because it's from a different point-of-view, so first off we need to
check what the shutter speed is going to be
we don't know what the shutter speed is going to be
so just kind of looking around
down here,
It's quite a cool picture in itself.
what have we got, we've got,
i'm going to use a consistent sixtieth of a second, an F five point six
at eight hundred ISO.
Colour, we've got blue light going on out there, and
we've got sort of a yellow-y tinge to the fluorescence
going on in here.
Yeah if we look at that, there's definitely
oops
don't want to crash the camera.
is definitely a bit of a colour cast going on.
so i'm going to shoot raw and worry about colour later. but if there are some strange colour cast it doesn't really matter because
you can change it
or you can drop it into black and white
so let's see what we can do shall we.
I'll do that again
look,
aw
thank you.
romance at the burger van. Don't lose your chip.
haha
look at that.
pretty cool
you've got a new tattoo going on there, look at that
show us your tat, look at that
something else you can try,
is just pop your auto-focus
onto full auto focus everywhere
can you
just kind of
just gonna get a few pictures at that angle, look at that you see
three different angle there you go, look, look.
aw gross
what do you mean gross, haha
you look lovely, got some good
and that's on her good day, haha
right, now i'm just kind of introducing you to this, the more times
you can spend doing it, the better.
i'm probably not going to spend hours and hours here,
the more time you can, the better it is, because you'll get more and more into whats going on.
haha, that's not fair.
aw no you're doing really well
well done.
that's cool, that's really good of you to let me in too.
yeah he has there cool, there really cool
did you see what did there janey
again i'm on fully auto focus
and all i did was put the camera down near the bacon and photograph up
looking at Gary.
to get that last shot
we're getting some good stuff going on in here, i'm getting really in among-st it
notice i'm not doing any still life now, because it's all about the people.
he's doing a little home video thing, home video thing haha.
here comes an egg, so
yeah that's worked, good. sort off.
that's what i mean by noticing whats going on being in the right place before it happens.
now i'm kind of hoping for hand over things now i'm kind of waiting and watching for them.
you know where someone hands over a burger reaches out to give money,
with wide lenses it's always good to get things close,
so for example if somethings close to the camera and then them moving away from it it gives
a huge sense of depth.
i'm working almost exclusively on ten millimeters
so for example if somebody's at the end of a hot plate
and leans this way getting down low of the hot plate
looking up at them will work very well.
it's always best if
they're facing the camera
to kind of see their facial expression or talking to a customer or something.
because then you get that human interaction.
It's what it's all about really.
twenty pence for you
so we did manage to get a burger handed over there,
just because i was watching Gary just putting on the finishing touches to a burger, so i knew
in a minute a customer would reach out to take it.
It's the case of being in the right place to grab that shot.
admitidly i could have done it a bit better then.
It's because my attention is split between you guys, and what's happening in here.
we'll go outside in a minute and have a little go looking
back this way.
sorry Kyle, it's Kyle isn't it?
Carl or Kyle? Kyle sorry Kyle
cool name, that's a movie start name, like Jeremy kyle
Jeremy kyle, haha
these bacon,
these sissor-ly bacon, look at this. This looks good, here we go.
oh yeah.. there pretty cool, there pretty cool.
all i was doing, i don't know if you saw me, but all i was doing was looking through the camera
i was just going like that, and shooting the last couple of shots of Gary flipping the bacon over.
This could be an opportunity there's five pounds coming out.
sorry Kyle.
yeah, that's okay that's kind of busy.
Let's go outside and have a look at the trailer from a different direction.
Let's see what happens.
so i'm just going to hang out here for a little while, so i can wait and see what happens.
This is quite a dynamic angle because i really like the fact we've got
the church going on in the background.
and we got the burgers and we got this lovely kind of
the shelf it makes a really strong leading line into whats going on down
there.
i want to use that leading line
so i'm going to get quite low, as i said i'm using my feet as the zoom
so in a minute, here we go, here it comes.
Right, focused.
so when i want to get in close like that,
unfortunately every time i move the guy looks the other way understandably .
i'm just hoping that he will
lean in this direction to pay, but i thinks he's just uncomfortable with
me with my camera
I'm just going to wait to get the shot
to come to me.
i've actually got my camera pre-focused
so i can half press the shutter and get the man in front with the rucksack
so it's already focused, i mean, i now know where i need to be.
so what i'm going to do is wait now
until something happens
and then moved myself forward so i'm in the right place
so that the focus which i've already pre-set and i'm keeping the pressure on
so what i've gotta do is, snap
quickly as that
i always try to do this stuff composing in-camera and not crop if
i can possibly help it
and i
don't like cropping it if i can avoid it
we've kind of got it, but i've missed
the interaction a bit, no i didn't i got it , i got it.
i love this guys jacket, it's just really bright. i love the colour in that jacket.
yeah i like that,
that's cool
yeah i quite like that, i went for that guy because i love the colour of his jacket
let's move back and see if theres a
shot to be had with that.
it was kind of, but i was just
to late, i missed. Go and see if you can find yourself somewhere on a market
who'll let you spend a bit of time around there stall and it's a great way to just break the ice and
start to work with people