This interesting photo, taken with a phone, was achieved by choosing a city spot and waiting until the right people went by.
It seems to me to be an alterative to taking photos that are based only on instant reactions. Both methods have their place, of course; but this one requires patience. Usually photographers who exhibit patience set up a camera on a tripod carefully: using a phone, the ultimate snapshot machine, is not the obvious way to go about it.
David
I sometimes do that. I'll just envisage what I want to see and then sit & wait. With my Fuji cameras, I can be looking down at the screen with the camera on my lap and it's not obvious I'm waiting to take a picture. But sometimes, you have to wait for a long time!!!!
Most photography, if you want to do it well requires patience and planning.
With my architectura pictures, I often have to wait for that millisecond when there are no people in the shot. I remember one afternoon in the Bibbiena Theatre in Mantua. It was deserted apart from a woman dressed in bright red, who sat there for ages checking her phone. I had to wait some time before she Fffed of.
Landscape needs patience too. Those clouds never seem to pass by the sun.
My worst was a church that Canaletto had painted. I got there on the day when the sun was at the same angle and set up on the spot closest to where I had decided Canaletto had been. But there was a group of women in the way, nattering. Eventually, they moved out of shot, and then a delivery van stopped in front of the church. The driver went away, leaving his van there for quite a while. When he came back, he sat in the van smoking a cigarette, despite it being a no parking zone. Eventually He drove off and I was able to take the picture — not quite a match to Canaletto’s painting, as I figure he must have been looking through a first floor window; but still worth waiting for. I will try again this year!
David
Often when I want to do an external, I will find a car parked in front of the building. Another scenario, is when you have sombody who stops in your frame, gets out the cell phone and shoots, which is fine. But the pictures then have to be posted to Facebook or some other Social Media instantly.
I can have patience, when on a landscape photo trip, without having to lug a heavy tripod up a mountain. The whole idea for me is to wait for the right light when you get to the right place.
There is a great inspirational book full of such photots called ,
"Waiting for the light" by David Noton
Highly recommended 😀
