I tried.
I set up a Canon Eos 1D Mark II on a tripod – yes, a fucking tripod,just for you – pre-focused a mark, set the self-timer and ran to said
spot and tried to do what I was attempting to illustrate ... all within ten
seconds.
‘twas not easy.
Yes, I could have set up the IR remote but I would have had to use myhand to trip it.
Sometimes, yes, modern luxuries that are the digi-SLR work to a
photographer’s benefit.
But ... you know what I’ll say.
Not, I repeat, NOT, on the street.
Imagine that both of the prior illustrations were not made in semi-
overcast light but around dusk.
The camera would have blended in.
I would have been a dude havin’ a smoke.
A dude just sittin’ and chillin’.
Not makin’ a photograph.
Of a moment.
A covert moment.
Where discovery of a photograph being made would have ruined
everything.
Yes, I would have learned. But I prefer to nail it.