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The Art of Photography => Street Showcase => Topic started by: RSL on May 31, 2018, 03:15:16 pm

Title: Informal Portraiture is not Street
Post by: RSL on May 31, 2018, 03:15:16 pm
I used to see this guy on the streets of Colorado Springs. One late evening in 2001 as I walked by him he said, "Take my picture." So I took his picture. The light was failing and I was shooting with an Olympus 3040Z, which was a good point-and-shoot in its day, but not quite adequate for this. He said, "I didn't see no flash," which illustrates an advantage a reasonably sensitive digital had for street photography in those days. I made him a small print and gave it to him the next time I saw him. A couple years later I saw him in the bus station. He was very blind and being steered around by a friend. Evidently he'd been drinking methanol.
Title: Re: Informal Portraiture is not Street
Post by: MattBurt on June 01, 2018, 12:10:36 am
Good story although sad. Addiction is so destructive.
But I like the shot. I think I even get the genre.  8)

This guy was looking particularly stylish one morning and I asked to get a photo on my way to the office. I don't normally do that but it just struck me that he looked like an interesting character in a movie.
It was a little snowy out but we were under an awning so it was like a big softbox shining in from the street. I think he is a real cowboy but was on his way to a date or something. No sad cowboy story to go with him that I know.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4647/39181838321_e79f0cc377_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/22Gnasz)
Title: Re: Informal Portraiture is not Street
Post by: Rob C on June 01, 2018, 04:54:20 am
I must try to find one of those hats that come with built-in hair.

;-(
Title: Re: Informal Portraiture is not Street
Post by: Farmer on June 01, 2018, 05:14:24 am
https://www.costumebox.com.au/billy-mullet-blonde-brown-wig.html?utm_source=google_shopping&gclid=CjwKCAjw3cPYBRB7EiwAsrc-ucLGhgIUoc5g-hzfPLxfaw6kKWn5cXdHCdoPSZXZ6vjo-FirKAa6rBoCXq8QAvD_BwE
Title: Re: Informal Portraiture is not Street
Post by: Rob C on June 01, 2018, 06:38:58 am
https://www.costumebox.com.au/billy-mullet-blonde-brown-wig.html?utm_source=google_shopping&gclid=CjwKCAjw3cPYBRB7EiwAsrc-ucLGhgIUoc5g-hzfPLxfaw6kKWn5cXdHCdoPSZXZ6vjo-FirKAa6rBoCXq8QAvD_BwE


Hey, without offending anyone, I don't want to look gay!

Old cowboy or white-soul singer would be just dandy. A little bit of Willie Nelson, for example.

;-)
Title: Re: Informal Portraiture is not Street
Post by: MattBurt on June 01, 2018, 09:58:41 am

Hey, without offending anyone, I don't want to look gay!

Old cowboy or white-soul singer would be just dandy. A little bit of Willie Nelson, for example.

;-)

I always associated the mullet more with rednecks than gays.
Title: Re: Informal Portraiture is not Street
Post by: KLaban on June 01, 2018, 10:25:54 am
Redneck mullets (https://www.google.gr/search?hl=en&biw=1562&bih=879&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=0lYRW_OUIcmPmwWGpI-IAQ&q=redneck+mullets&oq=redneck+mullets&gs_l=img.12..0.93584.96624.0.99342.9.7.0.2.2.0.765.2176.2-3j2j6-1.6.0....0...1c.1.64.img..1.8.2377...0i67k1.0.kbfHppvNkvw)
Title: Re: Informal Portraiture is not Street
Post by: Rob C on June 01, 2018, 10:39:35 am
I always associated the mullet more with rednecks than gays.

I thought of them in connection with boy bands, but as I avoided watching them like the plague...
Title: Re: Informal Portraiture is not Street
Post by: MattBurt on June 01, 2018, 11:53:35 am
I thought of them in connection with boy bands, but as I avoided watching them like the plague...

Depending on the era, I think the reverse mullet (http://transbeauty.website/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/reverse-mullet-haircutproper-hair-for-any-where.jpg) is more of a boy band thing.
Title: Re: Informal Portraiture is not Street
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on June 01, 2018, 01:13:26 pm
I must try to find one of those hats that come with built-in hair.

Maybe you'd prefer a curly hair with that hat? And a cigar?

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4685/27634014089_0cf96e8218_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/J6VxCM)
Costumbrista - Havana, Cuba (https://flic.kr/p/J6VxCM) by Slobodan Blagojevic (https://www.flickr.com/photos/slobodan_blagojevic/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Informal Portraiture is not Street
Post by: Rob C on June 01, 2018, 02:08:24 pm
I don't smoke.
Title: Re: Informal Portraiture is not Street
Post by: MattBurt on June 01, 2018, 04:20:07 pm
I don't smoke.

She's not smoking either.
Title: Re: Informal Portraiture is not Street
Post by: KLaban on June 02, 2018, 09:46:09 am
Give that lady a cigar.

These characters have a neat business plan, charge multiple punters for posing without ever having to renew the cigar.

;-)
Title: Re: Informal Portraiture is not Street
Post by: Rob C on June 03, 2018, 04:25:27 am
Give that lady a cigar.

These characters have a neat business plan, charge multiple punters for posing without ever having to renew the cigar.

;-)

Better yet: don't get lung cancer, only mouth cancer!

Rob