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Sunday, 11 July 2021 06:11

Girl in a Hat

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Girl in a hat (c) Dave Collerton, 2021 Girl in a hat (c) Dave Collerton, 2021

I guess I am what you might call, an observational photographer. The things that catch my eye are often very simple, everyday objects and instances that might otherwise go missed :) My favourite photographers, of which there are many, include Saul Leiter, Fred Herzog, Vivian Maier, Elliott Erwitt, Shirley Baker and Sarah Moon, oh and Robert Capa, Fay Godwin and of course Cartier-Bresson. Not that I'm as good as any one of them but I like to try. Perhaps time was a little slower back then so they were able to capture the decisive moment more easily, who knows. I think there's a lot to be said for loading a film camera, setting the lens to F8 then pre-focusing so that you're ready to grab those oh so fleeting moments we miss all to often. Fortunately, for this image my subject wasn't going anywhere soon so I had those few extra moments more to nail the composition.

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