I got very lucky, not only is the composition perfect without me looking in the viewfinder, but also I'd forgotten to reset an exposure compensation from earlier. If I hadn't done that, the light in the middle would have caused the picture to be underexposed. And also because I was very slow in learning that the Pentax ME Super I had actually underexposed everything by at least a half stop, maybe a full one, so a lot of what I photographed then was badly underexposed.
Oh, I just noticed now from old notes that this one won a regional competition. And another of mine got second place. Not only that, but the judge said that those two were well above the whole rest of the entries. At seventeen I was feeling pretty damn smug that day, you bet! :-)
A contest judge who saw this said that the girl on the left had just spotted a hot guy. Well, that would be me.
ReplyDeleteWait, I'm confused. I thought you said the guy was hot. ;-)
Oh yes. I know many people only think I've developed my good looks with age, but I was pretty darn handsome too in my youth.
ReplyDeleteAh, so you were cheating a bit when you took this superb picture, hehe.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I like this sort of pictures very much, but: I am definitely far too shy, or clumsy, to ask people if I might take their photograph. The idea of not looking through the viewfinder is a good one, but still, the/my problem stays.
What can I do. Sometimes I feel sad about this...
A small relief is coming from digital cameras where you compose on the display, without having to look straight into the eyes of your model. Kind of spy photography.
"...but I was pretty darn handsome too in my youth."
ReplyDeleteAnd now would be a perfect time to post *that picture* to prove just that, Eolake! :-)
Yes, you are hot. I'd like to quit my job and bang you 22 hours a day. The other hours I'd let you suck my cock.
ReplyDeleteAh so kind.
ReplyDeleteLast year, I think, I posted two yoof pics:
http://stobblehouse.com/arthome/old-photos/source/stob79.html
http://stobblehouse.com/arthome/stob/stob-nu.JPG
Pic 1: So where you a difficult to handle puberterian, Eolake?
ReplyDeletePic 2: Wow. Well done photography. Where have you been hiding this picture? Haven't come across it on all of your sites up to now.
I have similar photos of myself on film/slide/print, too. I used to be handsome as well. I didn't realize it at that time, though, because of misunderstood feedback.
I might scan them and put them up on my flickr album some day. So watch out.
"Pic 1: So where you a difficult to handle puberterian, Eolake?"
ReplyDeleteNah. Quiet and introverted mostly.
"Pic 2: Wow. Well done photography. Where have you been hiding this picture?"
It's actually on the Art Home page of stobblehouse.com.
That chick's actually saying "Who's the goofy looking guy taking our picture?" :)
ReplyDeleteI once (ab)used my stunning good looks to snap a stolen shot of a grandmother who otherwise would never have let me take her au naturel.
ReplyDeleteWhat can I say? I'm a regular jagal!
(Nope, in Lebanese this doesn't bean "gigolo". More in the lines of "super-cool handsome devil heartbreaker". But it loses some of the edge in the translation.)
Yes, Eolake IS a hot jagal. But truth is, there's a terrible heat wave in Lancashire right now, so...
Ah yes, I do remember when Eo yon graced us with a naked photo of his younger self on this blog. If I remember well, he was so moved by his own Elvis-like hunka-hunka-hunkyness, that his hands shook and the photo ended up blurry.
And that clothed one (a mandatory condition to help keep your framing steady?), âhh, ya zalameh, malla khazzee2!
Khazzee2 [pron: khaz-zee-uh]: literally, "ripper". But it's not what you think. It's, um, a tribute to his rippled muscles. Yeah, that's it! Or maybe a hint to the Hulk Hogan syndrome: when a guy is so gorgeous, that his mere gaze causes the clothes of pretty young women (and some anonymous men as well) to spontaneously fly in shreds. It's sometimes called "the Zoolander Magnum gaze".
Monsieur Beep,
What about that "so sexy, it hurts" photo you're using for your avatar? You got even better than that? Hey, you've been holding out on your friends!
Modesty's fine, but really, this is too much.
BTW, my watch IS out. When do we synchronize?
"It's actually on the Art Home page of stobblehouse.com."
WOW!!!!! DEVIOUS!
Who would ever think of looking for it there?
Yep, best-hiding-place-ever.
BTW, Anon: awesome skill.
Honestly, I had never met somebody yet who could lip-read on still photos. You MUST teach me that skill, ya man. Ghabret radâk, I'll be forever in your debt.
(Yeah, yeah, I know. After my #100 post, I realized I had a patriotic duty to use lebanese expressions more frequently. So, translation: ghabret radâk means "the dust of your satisfaction". As in, "it is sufficient to make me oh so happy, I seek no bigger reward, please-please-please-please-please-please-please-pretty-pleeeeeeaaaaase?")
Oh, and, for the record? "The goofy looking guy taking [their] picture" was another photographer, far less subtle, who actually aimed through his camera instead of doing it "blind quick-draw" like the pros.
Small-timer!
So we've got only handsome guys here, hehe, what do the ladies say?? :-)
ReplyDeletePascal, I used to look handsome; as you can see by my avatar, however, years have withered my attractiveness. But still, in apeland I do have chances, haha.
Another good way to take spy photographs of the beautiful marvel sitting in front of you on the train is to fumble with your small digital camera, adjusting the display, and pressing the shutter release every now and then. (Switch off the shutter imitation sound). Results will often be astonishing.
Out of context: Doctor, you've got good belly dance music in Lebanon!
We'll synchronize some day, Doc, I need a slide scanner. So hold on a sec. Meanwhile try to spot me on flickr, hehe. Find out where those beeps come from.
results will often be astonishing.
ReplyDeleteEspecially when you forgot to switch off the flash! ;-)