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<\/center><\/p>\nDate: July 28, 2009
\nPlace: Between the Tenderloin and Nob Hill, San Francisco
\nModus operandi: Happy to be leaving the Tenderloin.
\nWeather: Typical overcast San Francisco day.
\nTime: 10:40am.
\nGear: Panasonic G1, kit lens at 45mm, f\/6.3, 1\/80th, ISO100
\nMedium: Digital
\nMe: Thrilled to still have an eye for this sort of thing.
\nMy age: 57<\/p>\n
This reminds me of my picture of Perry’s<\/a> taken at the very end of the last millennium. I had been tramping around the Tenderloin and was pretty much happy to be leaving the area. There’s really very little good that can be said about it.<\/p>\n Heading East, I saw this one from far away and was lucky that the lady remained as still as when I first saw her. Her deeply unhappy face speaks of a date broken, a heart crying.<\/p>\n There was a brief break in the traffic after what seemed like an age (in reality a couple of seconds!) and I managed to get the snap with that sweet kit lens on the G1 racked out as far as it could go – 90mm equivalent. <\/p>\n Just like using that old Leica 90mm but a lot faster and easier. No lens changing, no focusing, no light measurement needed. Words fail me in trying to convey just what a perfect camera\/lens combination the G1 makes for street snaps like this. If this is your preferred genre, I strongly recommend the G1 and 14-45mm kit lens. It is all you will need and your ability to give near-100% attention to the subject will make you a better photographer.<\/p>\n In this case, I was fortunate to be able to balance the outward looking figure with the door on the right.<\/p>\n Taken not long after yesterday’s snap<\/a> and a few blocks east. Seconds later the lady was gone. Sometimes you just get lucky.<\/p>\n Absent the usual sharpening using a Lightroom import preset no other processing was required – the naturally muted contrast of the G1 and my default underexposure setting makes for a low effort camera-to-final-image setup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lonely. Date: July 28, 2009 Place: Between the Tenderloin and Nob Hill, San Francisco Modus operandi: Happy to be leaving the Tenderloin. Weather: Typical overcast San Francisco day. Time: 10:40am. Gear: Panasonic G1, kit lens at 45mm, f\/6.3, 1\/80th, ISO100 Medium: Digital Me: Thrilled to still have an eye for this sort of thing. My … Continue reading About the Snap: Lonely<\/span>