Beale Street Cuties: This is my first post to the Hog. My wife and I had just left one of the music clubs on Beale St. in Memphis and were enjoying the festive atmosphere. These young...

woodfrog Loc: Tennessee

This is my first post to the Hog. My wife and I had just left one of the music clubs on Beale St. in Memphis and were enjoying the festive atmosphere. These young ladies had just asked me to take their picture with one of their cell phones. After doing so, in typical fashion of today's times, they stopped in the middle of the street and took their selfie.

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jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

I like it--nice street work.

RichardTaylor Loc: Sydney, Australia

Welcome to the forums - and I also like it.

Jay Pat Loc: Round Rock, Texas, USA

Welcome to the forums!!!
Pat

Voss

Nice shot. Keep them coming.

waegwan Loc: Mae Won Li

woodfrog wrote:

This is my first post to the Hog. My wife and I had just left one of the music clubs on Beale St. in Memphis and were enjoying the festive atmosphere. These young ladies had just asked me to take their picture with one of their cell phones. After doing so, in typical fashion of today's times, they stopped in the middle of the street and took their selfie.

Cute shot, thanks for sharing and welcome. :)

Franku Loc: Wallingford, PA and Parrish, Fl

Beautiful women in a photo will always get attention.
Nice picture.

Nightski

Well, you can't go wrong with a trio of beauties. This is a fun, playful intimate moment between girlfriends. The background provides context without competing with the girls. Good DOF choice.

LarryN Loc: Portland OR & Carbondale, CO

Very nice shot. Great smiles. What were you using for lighting? :thumbup:

woodfrog Loc: Tennessee

The area is well lit. I put a wrist strap on a Canon T2i and use either a EF-S 24mm 2.8 pancake lens or a 1.8 nifty fifty. It makes a good street camera and doesn't attract too much attention. In this shot I used the 50mm at 3200 ISO which is about as high as I can go without getting too noisy.

blackest Loc: Ireland

woodfrog wrote:

The area is well lit. I put a wrist strap on a Canon T2i and use either a EF-S 24mm 2.8 pancake lens or a 1.8 nifty fifty. It makes a good street camera and doesn't attract too much attention. In this shot I used the 50mm at 3200 ISO which is about as high as I can go without getting too noisy.

would they have been around 20 feet away from you?

I like the depth of field on this and i think it would have been around 5 feet at f2.8 if I got the subject distance right.

woodfrog Loc: Tennessee

[quote=blackest]would they have been around 20 feet away from you?

I can't remember, it was all just spontaneous. Split second framing thru the viewfinder when opportunity presented itself.

blackest Loc: Ireland

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blackest wrote:

would they have been around 20 feet away from you?

I can't remember, it was all just spontaneous. Split second framing thru the viewfinder when opportunity presented itself.

I was hoping to confirm this

Object height on image sensor (mm)/ focal length = Real Object height / Distance to Object.

which I figured the girls are around 4 foot actual height what is shown on the frame roughly 60% of the frame height so about 10mm with aps-c being about 16mm so

10mm/ 50mm = 0.2 so rearranging the equation gives 4 foot / 0.2 = 20 feet. with the aperture being f2.8 then dof is about 5 feet at that distance and looks great.