This photograph of a sleeping man in Bangkok’s Chinatown
illustrates one of the potential pitfalls of taking photos by shooting from the
hip as I do. It would be a better picture if the whole foot had been included
but I accidentally cut the toes off.
However, the pitfall isn’t that it’s hard to compose a picture
when shooting from the hip (which, of course, is true), the pitfall is that I
shot from the hip at all. The man’s asleep! I could easily have looked through
the viewfinder and composed the shot more careful without any risk of him
changing from his natural expression. Apparently once I’m in the groove of
shooting from the hip it becomes automatic and I forget that I have a choice.
However, it is also true that I was worried that he might
suddenly wake-up and not take kindly to having a camera poked at him so took a very
quick picture and moved on.
Photograph taken in Yaowarat, Bangkok, Thailand
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