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Reviewing the images from the busy street location

Reviewing the images from the busy street location

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Reviewing the images from the busy street location

- Ok, well, Day One is over, we had a great day. The weather was great, the light was nice. So as it turns out, it looks like I've shot about 3,000 pictures. Arguably street photographers are the most prolific, because we have to be. You know, in order to capture action that's happening that's out of our control, you know we have to trigger on instinct, we have to shoot a little, so 3,000 frames in, you know, a few hours shooting is really, par for the course. And you can expect to shoot a little more, it's digital, it doesn't cost extra, and you know it's just how it works. Ultimately though we don't care about 3,000 images. We just want those five star images, and that's why we're shooting so much. The more you shoot, the more likely you are to capture that special moment. So we started out on the street, we went to 57th Street and 5th Avenue. You can see there's a sea of humanity. This was with the telephoto lens, and this was a longer zoom lens, so there's so many people out…

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