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Sneaking a peek-Chinatown

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RBSinTo Senior Member Registered: August 2005 Location: Thornhill, Ontario, Canada Posts: 345 users gallery	I was walking in the Chinatown shopping district here in downtown Toronto, when I spotted a woman carrying her daughter in a sling on her back as she shopped. I watched them for a few minutes, and finally the woman turned and began to walk in my direction. I panned as they passed and shot about three frames. The woman apparently didn't even notice me, but the little girl heard the sound of the motordrive and peeked at me as they walked by. For me it is the little girls eye that made the shot.
	· Date: Sun July 15, 2007 · Views: 709 · Filesize: 81.2kb · Dimensions: 800 x 427 ·
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	Keywords: Sneaking peek-Chinatown
	Camera: motorized Nikon F2AS
	Lens: Nikkor 35mm f2 AIS manual focus
	Photo Medium: film-fuji sensia II 100 ISO colour slide
	Shutter Speed and F-Stop: probably 5.6 @1/1000
	Setup For Image: handheld
	Location: Toronto
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Sergio

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Registered: May 2004
Location: Moreno Valley, California
Posts: 199

Sun July 15, 2007 2:44pm

What a wonderful little slice of life. You are correct, the little girl really make this shot.

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jasonh

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Registered: March 2004
Location: Brooklyn!
Posts: 518

Sun July 15, 2007 4:10pm

I like the way this composed/cropped. Mother and daughter's heads are at the same angle in opposite edges of the frame - it looks very good.

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AJazzyone - Todd

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Registered: September 2004
Location: Collinsville IL / St. Louis MO
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Sun July 15, 2007 9:06pm

Thumbail look different. Thats why you have to look at all of the pics

Ditto above Robert. Your timing is on target. Great story to go with the pic. I like the DOF you have as well. The eye has it....

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RBSinTo
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 345

Mon July 16, 2007 10:09am

Thanks for the kind words. This shot was taken a couple of years ago, and for a long time I didn't post it because of issues with the background. Even though the depth of field was fairly shallow, there were enough distracting objects and blown out highlights in it to cause visual problems. This weekend I scanned the image and was fussing with it trying to decide whether I should work on the background to blur and tone down the distractions, or simply crop it fairly tight.
Then while resizing the image on the screen, it came up in the proportion you see here. I cropped the image to match the view, and my background problems were eliminated. Sometimes the fickle photo gods smile down and you get a break.