I have to admit that when you put a camera in my hand, I can be a bit of a goof....
Both of these snaps were taken "on the side" when I was supposed to be working, the top one a few weeks ago covering an event at a museum, and the lower one yesterday in the middle of a portrait shoot.
With apologies to the subjects! (The top one's a candid, the subject in the lower shot knew what I was up to.)
Mike
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Ha! I gather that that's the family that loaned the other headdress? I was just in that gallery yesterday.
Posted by: Kenneth Tanaka | Wednesday, 02 November 2011 at 10:46 AM
Ken,
Yes, they bussed 52 of us from Milwaukee to Chicago for a presentation by the curator and a private reception afterward in the Millennium Park Room. It was a wonderful day. I'm late getting the pictures posted online, but I've been swamped with stuff to do lately....
Mike
Posted by: Mike Johnston | Wednesday, 02 November 2011 at 11:02 AM
this recalls some unintentional goofs. most prominently to my mind is the photo of Kent State shootings, and the lady kneeling on the pavement... with a stake driven through her head — though just a compositional fluke, of course. I read elsewhere that the photographer then removed it for some printings. fortunately, there is no need to remove these fine examples :)
Posted by: fernando | Wednesday, 02 November 2011 at 12:45 PM
Decisive moments.
Posted by: jamin | Wednesday, 02 November 2011 at 01:14 PM
(s/a) Now Mike, I am normally not one to criticize another photographer's technique but every book I've read on photography composition suggests that we should always avoid tangents. I guess tangents cause the risk of confusing the audience of the photograph.
Apparently what happens when rendering a three dimensional scene into two dimensions is that front-to-back distance can appear to be compressed causing objects in-front-of or behind other objects to appear to merge.
I can see this happening in both of your example photographs here. Perhaps you just didn't notice?
Posted by: Christian | Wednesday, 02 November 2011 at 01:32 PM
Nothing the matter with a bit of Goof every now and then. After all, some artists have made a career out of it Mike.
Posted by: Dennis Huteson | Thursday, 03 November 2011 at 06:00 AM