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love this spot, by Victoria station circle line i think it was, as soon as i saw the hoodie and frame i thought yes, because as he was further back he was blurry, i missed about 5 shots from that, the rx1003 isn't as good as the 7 and each time i missed shots that would have been the best of the day, this one had a lad walking by holding a striped pole, eyes locked. Another was a guy holding a mannequin head as he rushed by, i got him stood still and he rushed by, twice, and each time the camera didn't focus. can't tell you how unhappy i was to miss it. Another in covent garden, woman stare upwards, messed up, another someone wearing a santa hat, stood there posing with train behind her. Like he was holding the mannequin head in his palm, out in front. I know i get a lot and every day you're missing potentially millions of shots in every part of the world, and maybe they're messy and the light is crap but he was holding the mannequin head in his hand! I caught the whole movement past me! And the platform was completely packed, like you couldn't move, and some people were looking at me, and to do all that and not get was frustrating. I also missed hand pressed against window about five times, each too late. That was the shot i wanted, taunting me, got a lot of hands but not quite the one, the windows are tinted, if rushing past i need shutter speed higher but can't. I wanted something pretty neat. I was deciding who might do it, trying hyde park corner, checking times. Having a firm idea of a shot and wanting it is not a good idea for me, if it happens it happens.

With the sony rx100s breaking on me i might go canon gx5 mark ii, zoom is 120mm, significant leap from 70 to 120 and then from 120 to 200 not a lot, it's just those chunks when you're behind a window or across a road or railway track. Like i saw a car with good relfections on tottenham court road but it means watching the road, and can't be discreet about it. It was about 20 feet away. I need to probably just make the decision to cross diagonally as a disguise then aim.

maybe buy the canon from amazon, try it, send it back, check mapping shutter, iso to dial, wheel, buffer rate, how silent it is, auto focus. Been trying raw recently and it's just buffer rate, if someone is rushing past i need fast burst, i need to press before the right framing, so inevitably there's a lot. For low shutter speed it's luck. Buffer is something like 78 on rx1003, 159 on rx1007. Sounds a lot, but think in active places, people every second. It's 250 on the rx1006.

There were dozens of people on the other side of the platform while getting this shot, close to the window, waiting, and i didn't care so that's an improvement, just completely removing how weird it is, occassionly i look up and catch someone staring, that look like they've witnessed a demon slip in through a crack from another dimension. The look of disgust. It was like about day out 2 in 2013 when casually using the lx7 aiming out the window on the bus home at night the guy behind me got up and said 'he's taking pictures of people, it's not right' and before walking down the steps said 'if he takes a photo of me i'll swear i'll knock him out', as the person to my right said 'you've got to ask permission to take photos of people mate'. It doesn't sound believable because it doesn't make sense, at night in darkness out from a window, but you can imagine the anxiety piled on top of the anxiety when things like that throw you off. It's only seeing how much people don't care generally over time i've gotten used to it. Eventually you form an armour, you think about the miles you have to walk to reach a spot, that you might be only there once, that no one else cares about you getting good shots. I've been thinking, let other people be awkward on your behalf, let it slide off. Or just totally disconnect, where a stare is happening but you don't exist, you're just a floating camera moving around.

Other street candid photographers i've seen in videos on youtube, every single one seem oblivious to me, a different mentality, been thinking it's an upper class thing combined with being too happy to notice, that way of people who go to private schools carrying a confidence of always being where they should be because their childhood was shaped around expected aspirations. Whereas working class people get imposter syndrome, hyper sensitive to being put in their place with how school is basically lessons in authority that then carry on in life. There's so many people who view photography as this precious thing where every aspect needs to be learned, like everyone is back at school, while on the other side there's punk bands giving life to people who can make their mark through spirit and passion alone. That's why there's such a big reaction in people, if it's someone down trodden in life they see your camera and accept you're in a higher position, even if you're not, it happens, they don't confront you. Whereas people in nice suits will challenge you. Not always true but that reaction of 'heh, no no no, i won't accept this'. I don't know, i always think where the line is, if you're doing it anyway, if the image is something else and the world is constantly shifting elements and building blocks, endlessly alive waiting to inject your photograph with energy and intensity. Also yeah it's a guy in a hoodie walking by some glass, i dunno.

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love this spot, by Victoria station circle line i think it was, as soon as i saw the hoodie and frame i thought yes, because as he was further back he was blurry, i missed about 5 shots from that, the rx1003 isn't as good as the 7 and each time i missed shots that would have been the best of the day, this one had a lad walking by holding a striped pole, eyes locked. Another was a guy holding a mannequin head as he rushed by, i got him stood still and he rushed by, twice, and each time the camera didn't focus. can't tell you how unhappy i was to miss it. Another in covent garden, woman stare upwards, messed up, another someone wearing a santa hat, stood there posing with train behind her. Like he was holding the mannequin head in his palm, out in front. I know i get a lot and every day you're missing potentially millions of shots in every part of the world, and maybe they're messy and the light is crap but he was holding the mannequin head in his hand! I caught the whole movement past me! And the platform was completely packed, like you couldn't move, and some people were looking at me, and to do all that and not get was frustrating. I also missed hand pressed against window about five times, each too late. That was the shot i wanted, taunting me, got a lot of hands but not quite the one, the windows are tinted, if rushing past i need shutter speed higher but can't. I wanted something pretty neat. I was deciding who might do it, trying hyde park corner, checking times. Having a firm idea of a shot and wanting it is not a good idea for me, if it happens it happens.

With the sony rx100s breaking on me i might go canon gx5 mark ii, zoom is 120mm, significant leap from 70 to 120 and then from 120 to 200 not a lot, it's just those chunks when you're behind a window or across a road or railway track. Like i saw a car with good relfections on tottenham court road but it means watching the road, and can't be discreet about it. It was about 20 feet away. I need to probably just make the decision to cross diagonally as a disguise then aim.

maybe buy the canon from amazon, try it, send it back, check mapping shutter, iso to dial, wheel, buffer rate, how silent it is, auto focus. Been trying raw recently and it's just buffer rate, if someone is rushing past i need fast burst, i need to press before the right framing, so inevitably there's a lot. For low shutter speed it's luck. Buffer is something like 78 on rx1003, 159 on rx1007. Sounds a lot, but think in active places, people every second. It's 250 on the rx1006.

There were dozens of people on the other side of the platform while getting this shot, close to the window, waiting, and i didn't care so that's an improvement, just completely removing how weird it is, occassionly i look up and catch someone staring, that look like they've witnessed a demon slip in through a crack from another dimension. The look of disgust. It was like about day out 2 in 2013 when casually using the lx7 aiming out the window on the bus home at night the guy behind me got up and said 'he's taking pictures of people, it's not right' and before walking down the steps said 'if he takes a photo of me i'll swear i'll knock him out', as the person to my right said 'you've got to ask permission to take photos of people mate'. It doesn't sound believable because it doesn't make sense, at night in darkness out from a window, but you can imagine the anxiety piled on top of the anxiety when things like that throw you off. It's only seeing how much people don't care generally over time i've gotten used to it. Eventually you form an armour, you think about the miles you have to walk to reach a spot, that you might be only there once, that no one else cares about you getting good shots. I've been thinking, let other people be awkward on your behalf, let it slide off. Or just totally disconnect, where a stare is happening but you don't exist, you're just a floating camera moving around.

Other street candid photographers i've seen in videos on youtube, every single one seem oblivious to me, a different mentality, been thinking it's an upper class thing combined with being too happy to notice, that way of people who go to private schools carrying a confidence of always being where they should be because their childhood was shaped around expected aspirations. Whereas working class people get imposter syndrome, hyper sensitive to being put in their place with how school is basically lessons in authority that then carry on in life. There's so many people who view photography as this precious thing where every aspect needs to be learned, like everyone is back at school, while on the other side there's punk bands giving life to people who can make their mark through spirit and passion alone. That's why there's such a big reaction in people, if it's someone down trodden in life they see your camera and accept you're in a higher position, even if you're not, it happens, they don't confront you. Whereas people in nice suits will challenge you. Not always true but that reaction of 'heh, no no no, i won't accept this'. I don't know, i always think where the line is, if you're doing it anyway, if the image is something else and the world is constantly shifting elements and building blocks, endlessly alive waiting to inject your photograph with energy and intensity. Also yeah it's a guy in a hoodie walking by some glass, i dunno.