It's Morphin' Annie, Not Orphan Annie
This unposed shot of a stranger was taken last Friday.
I was shooting the front of Hamer Hall when this lady walked past and sat down in bright springtime sunshine near the front of the theatre entrance.
I lined up the shot immediately, so as to preserve her complete anonymity – but there was a special problem. A huge brass pillar in front of the theatre seemed as if it was blending into her hair.
In order to work around this problem, I just waited a few seconds. All I needed was one person – on a very busy afternoon – to walk between my subject and Hamer Hall, thus providing some contrast. As you can discern if you look carefully, this man was wearing dark trousers and a white shirt, which not only provided some depth of field, but a contrast of tones as well.
I do not crop, enhance or post-edit my work in any way. Shot with a Pentax K100D, using a Sigma 70-300mm lens. F8, 1/180, ISO 400, focal length 300mm.
Featured in FRIENDS OF BANGOR AND NORTH DOWN CAMERA CLUB, November 2009.
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Cee Neuner
Gotta love that hair :D:D
David McMahon replied
Thanks, Cee – the light played so differently on each section of her tresses.
cherylc1
Love it!
David McMahon replied
Thank you, Cheryl. I was just hoping she wouldn’t turn around – because the shot was mysterious in terms of non-identity!
Maria Moro
A younger version of Nicole Kidman….lol (well that’s what her hair used to be like many years ago), gotta love those curls…. this girl ate all her brussels sprouts…
David McMahon replied
Yes, you’re right, Maria. You’re 100 per cent accurate with that observation – as is evident in her early movie BMX Bandits!
Merrilyn Hunt
Corkscrews and tendrils! No point fighting that kind of curl. Love the sunlight playing with the colours. Nice work, David.
David McMahon replied
Great to hear from you, Merrilyn – yes the sunlight was my greatest ally that afternoon.
Shulie1
Great curls she has
David McMahon replied
... and they looked wonderful in that strong light, Shulie. Thanks for your kind comment.
Anni Morris
All frothy and sunlit…you should join the RB group on here for Hair/Hairstyles. Great capture David ~ Anni :)
David McMahon replied
``Frothy’’ is a great description, Anni. I didn’t know that there was a hairstyles group – thanks so much for letting me know. I’ll submit it right away. Thanks for your kindness.
Anni Morris
Yes, it is called ‘Hairstyles’ David :)
David McMahon replied
Thanks so much for letting me know, Anni – I’ve submitted the image to the group.
sfmilner
Greetings David; Nicely done, with quick thinking and great camera work , you can capture the most unsuall images.
steve
David McMahon replied
Thank you, Steve. And congratulations on your milestone of 10,000 hits.
Diana-Lee Saville
HEY THAT”S ME!!!!! lol…joke :))...
David McMahon replied
I kinda thought I recognised the camera!!
Alan McMorris
David McMahon replied
Thanks, Alan, it’s wonderful to have an offbeat image like this one featured. My very humble thanks to you and your co-hosts. And, as always, thank you for taking the trouble to let me know.
Jen Wahl
wow… that is really quite incredible. You give so much thought to each image since you don’t do any pp… it really gives me something to think about. The actual planning of each photo… nice… really nice.
David McMahon replied
Thanks very much, Jen. Really appreciate your sentiments here. I guess we all learn from each other. It’s a two-way process and that’s why a site like Red Bubble is such a big influence, because it plays an important role in the sharing of knowledge and experience.
Georgie Hart
That’s a mighty fine head of hair there!
orlaphoto
Fantastic!