Category: People 'n Portraits
I saw this man during an early morning drive from Mandya towards K M Doddi:
It was a beautiful misty morning and my primary aim was to shoot birds. I stopped the car seeing a White-browed Wagtail and started clicking with the Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L telephoto lens. The bird was sitting on an electric wire - as is the case nowadays, whenever I spot birds :) (see Black-winged Kite) Anyways, once I was done with the bird and turned around, I saw this very old man, finding it difficult to walk even with the help of a cane.
He didnt have very good eye sight either and was not noticing anyone around him. Everybody around seem to know him too. I watched him for a while walking along the road and then taking a turn towards his house.
Needless to say, I did click some shots of the man :) The first few clicks were with the same Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L telephoto. Though, I changed to the 180mm and managed a few more shots later, I liked the first few shots better. I used Av mode, hand-held, with partial metering, ISO-400 and f/6.3 for a 1/640s exposure.
Update: One advantage of using the 400mm for candid portraits is that the subject will hardly notice you, unless you make it very obvious :) In this case, the man had a bad eye sight as well and did not see anything more than a stranger standing in his way.
