Clandestine portraits

[cjogo]

One of those "clandestine"  portraits I used to capture on my trips .. Used this method for many years - street shooting through out my journeys.

 I shot with a Rollei SL66/tripod  and a waist-level finder --150mm -- because the focusing knob protruded well-off the body --looked like a lens :-)

You never looked at your subject directly --always off in the exact opposite.  You turn the lens towards the subject , of course.   BUT you look ahead  > far off -- whilst your camera /lens is sideways = pointed left or right of your body position , on the the tripod ....cable release ready and fire -- usually about 1/15 shutter.

[cjogo]

River Man Ray

[bill t.]

I still own the Spiratone Circo-Mirrotach I bought in 1972 while living in Venice, CA.  Never got a single good shot out of it.  Asking "can I take your picture" is usually taken as a compliment, though decidedly not always.

http://www.thecuckoofarm.com/cuckoo/photo/lens/lensacc/spircirco/spircirco.php

[cjogo]

I still own the Spiratone Circo-Mirrotach I bought in 1972 while living in Venice, CA.  Never got a single good shot out of it.  Asking "can I take your picture" is usually taken as a compliment, though decidedly not always.

http://www.thecuckoofarm.com/cuckoo/photo/lens/lensacc/spircirco/spircirco.php

I remember those "mirror in a tube" things :-)  -- My way is at least very sharp :-)  And looking down into the camera ~ is not a dead give away --like a SLR ...

When I don't know the language -- and its not culturally "protocol" to speak to someone  >> without being formally introduced ...in most the West/Center/East Europe I have traveled  -- I have to rely on my "system" ;-)