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21-MAR-2009

Coffee Shop, New York City, New York, 2009

This man was reading his newspaper about six feet away from me. I placed my camera on my table, looked down into my flip-out LCD viewfinder, and made this image without him noticing me. He seems to come from another era, the time of fast black and white film (Tri-X?). So I converted my digital image to black and white, just for old time’s sake.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1
1/50s f/4.0 at 45.0mm iso800 hide exif
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Date/Time21-Mar-2009 07:49:07
MakePanasonic
ModelDMC-G1
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length45 mm
Exposure Time1/50 sec
Aperturef/4
ISO Equivalent800
Exposure Bias-0.66
White Balance
Metering Modemulti spot (3)
JPEG Quality
Exposure Programprogram (2)
Focus Distance

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Phil Douglis03-Apr-2009 01:34
You and Judy Tillinger we photographing him, just as I was, yet he never looked our way. He is here to read, and read he will.
Tim May02-Apr-2009 23:42
He read with such concentration and was oblivious to all of us taking his picture.
Carol E Sandgren31-Mar-2009 00:28
Another very New York image. I remember Tri-X too, so grainy but back then it was not really too well thought of. Still, I love the look, a rather photo-journalism feel to it as if the image had been snapped in the only available fleeting second.
Phil Douglis31-Mar-2009 00:26
Thanks, Susan -- candid means unposed. I rarely if ever pose people. I prefer to catch them being themselves.
Susan Bowen30-Mar-2009 23:55
Fabulous candid!
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