Couple outside Woodes very pleasant (and down-to-earth and real) café on Bristol’s Park Street >>> watching a FATman! I was surprised they noticed me, because I was photographing Woodes’s frontage as a whole and was quite far off. Even with my habitual 300mm telephoto and its x6 magnification, they only take up about 10% of the frame – that this picture is at all usable is a tribute to both to the quality of the lens and (at 1/105) its stabilisation, and the X-T2’s 24MP too.
Maybe on a mundane morning they were intrigued by a distant, overweight man, who has seen better days and who was artfully dressed in a dirty old coat and the odd sort of hat that the oily drivers of grimy steam locomotives might favour … but then Bristol can be like that, thankfully. Meaning a counterculture? Yes, that’s right, but I never mind queuing at a counter if there’s the prospect of getting fed.
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Technique: X-T2 with 55-200 Fujinon lens at 300mm (equiv); 800 ISO; Lightroom, including the Velvia/Vivid film simulation; Silver Efex Pro 2, starting at the Full Dynamic Smooth preset and adding a light coffee (how appropriate!) tone; 21 Apr 2017.
The look on the young lady’s face is absolutely priceless!
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Very glad she gets to you! I can have that effect on people. 🙂
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🙂 🙂 🙂 !!!
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She looks mid chew and he looks like something out of a Sherlock Holmes novel. Good catch! If they had their own camera, they might have snapped back. LOL
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It could have developed into a duel, but who would have been the snappier snapper??? 😉
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Well we all know…😉💜
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💖💘💖💘💖💘 xxxXXX!!!
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I would be suspiciously amused, like the woman!
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🙂 🙂 🙂 !!!
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😄😂
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