fighterjock102

This thread stems from a request I recieved in this thread here:http://www.xposing.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=27727 I know it wasn't my thread to begin with, but I felt inspired to throw in a few samples of my work, and recieved good feedback from them, as well as a request to make an entirely new thread to expand upon some of them. So, that's what I'm doing here.

And if you are an active member of the candid board, you may be aware that I just posted a nearly identical series over there a couple of days ago. But for those folks who may not be members there, or may not have enough credits over there to view all of them, I'm reposting them over here as well.

And in keeping with a long standing tradition of FJ candids, I like to give a little bit of a background story with my pictures whenever possible, so here goes:

Some of you familiar with my work know that I prefer to do much of my candid shooting in theme parks and other areas with an exceptionally high volume of tourists. The reasons for this are twofold. First of all, there are so many people that you are guaranteed to find at least some girls worth shooting, and even if the first ideal one you see presents too much of a challenge to get any decent shots off, you're sure to find at least a couple more that provide better opportunities. Secondly, in touristy areas like this, just about everyone is carrying a camera, making the fact that you are standing there with a camera powered-up in your hand not even matter to anyone. As long as you have the sound off on your camera, and make it obvious that at least every once in a while you are taking pictures of something more normal, then you can snap away in whatever direction you point your camera, almost entirely at will.

Anyway, this series is a perfect example of this. These were shot last spring at Disney-MGM Studios in Walt Disney Word, Florida. People were gathering along the sides of the street for a parade, and I just walked up and down either side of the street looking for the ideal subject or subjects. I decided that if I was going to shoot a subject from across the street, then I wanted the sun at my back, and if I was going to try to shoot someone on the same side of the road as me, I wanted to be facing into the sun (so I could point my cam and shoot behind me with better results). I found this cute teen in oversized sunglasses wearing a white shirt (and a bright pink bra, both of which would sag slightly when she leaned forward, giving me a fantastic db view and a peek at one of her nips , but that's another story ) who was sitting on a window ledge. It was a perfect setup for shots, as the sun was right on her, and small pink flowers in the planter beside her added a splash of color to the image, accenting the white of her shirt.

So I sat down on the window ledge beside her and snapped off a few shots of her (pics 1-5... I almost caught the db/nipple in pic 4, but she started leaning back again just as I snapped it), all the while noticing that she seemed to be with a family who appeared to have another teen girl, this one in a red shirt, who was standing just in front of me. Now I didn't have the sun in my favor for this one, but I started taking some of "Red" from behind, all the while keeping my eye on the first girl (pics 6-9). These ones of "Red" from behind were easier to pull off, because it looked like I was just photographing the parade, and didn't have to shoot over my arm or off to my side like her sister in white, and hence why I have more pics of "Red" during that time period than her sister.

Eventually, the girl in white got up from her seat in the window and moved a few steps away from me, so I took that moment to get up as well and move up next to "Red" to try to get some close-up face and other "detail" shots (if you know what I mean). Unfortunately, unlike her sister in white, "Red" wasn't showing me much in terms of down the blouse, but at least she had some nice shape, a pretty face, and a cute smile going on. This is where I remained for the duration of the parade (pics 10-16).

Despite the fact that a handful of the pictures appear to be busts because of people looking my way, this was in fact a result of the parade coming down the street from my direction, so people were actually trying to look past me at what was coming up next. I was smart enough to actually shoot one way while looking another a few times, which I think also helped my cover. As a result, I'm about 99.8% positive that not a single person was even slightly suspicious that my primary photographic objective was the two girls here and not Mickey Mouse and friends. And even if anyone was suspicious, when it was all over, I took advantage of the ensuing large corwd of tourists pouring onto the street and heading in every which way to just step into the masses and allow myself to disappear, which is another fantastic advantage to shooting in masses of tourists.

Anyway, I've rambled on long enough. Here's the pics. If you like them, leave praise. If you've got advice or constructive criticism to give, leave suggestions. If you're just gonna make a bullsh*t coment and post it for the sake of earning yourself a single stupid credit... just leave my thread the hell alone.

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dondea

i like them

noleified

disney is great.

aceofaces

yeeeha!

silversharkgt

OH MY! Soooo close, so many times! Keep that shit up!

shawn__96

like they say keep it in the family

TB84

very cute

sabot7d

they're cut

BlueVodka

Always funny in Disney

ultralite2

very nicee