Critique Welcomed Wants To Be Seen

[Brian Moore]

"people who consciously put themselves on display and expect to be noticed"

The above is a quote from @Peter Roberts recent post, The Spiv, and it reminded me of this photo I snapped at Santa Anita Park in Southern California some years ago. Normally I attempt to be uber-stealth when I shoot pictures of people but not on this occasion. This lady wanted to be seen.

Olympus OM2n with expired Fuji 200 film.

 

[Peter Roberts]

What a poseuse!

 

[Gary R. Smith]

This lady wanted to be seen.

Yes, she did! She was too...

 

[Brian Moore]

poseuse

Hahaha. New word for me.

 

[Gianluca Drago]

There are such people. I've come across some of them as well, and it usually hasn't been a bad encounter. Other times it was (bad), like today when I happened to meet three underage boys and one underage girl, who maybe had been drinking or were hormonal, and wanted to be photographed (which I didn't). I was photographing a skyscraper behind them and I hadn't even noticed them, but they thought they were the center of the stage. Next time run away before they notice you ;-)

 

[Brian Moore]

There are such people. I've come across some of them as well, and it usually hasn't been a bad encounter. Other times it was (bad), like today when I happened to meet three underage boys and one underage girl, who maybe had been drinking or were hormonal, and wanted to be photographed (which I didn't). I was photographing a skyscraper behind them and I hadn't even noticed them, but they thought they were the center of the stage. Next time run away before they notice you ;-)

Your story reminds me of this image, Gianluca. I was photographing an old hotel in Louisville and I became conscious of some light mockery being aimed in my direction. It was these two young chaps, valets for the hotel. It was all in fun and I knew it but I put a hard set on my face and walked directly at them. My action alarmed them, and I could see that in their faces. This surprised me and actually made me feel ashamed. But I asked them to pose for me and that broke the tension. You see here the pose they struck.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

You're a good people-person, Brian. I'm not, and tend to avoid them altogether in my photography, though actually that's not entirely true. I do have some humanoids in my files. Now that I think about it, that's why I like photographing protest marches, as everyone wants to be seen. That's why they're there.

 

[Brian Moore]

You're a good people-person, Brian.

On good days, maybe. Thanks Rob.