Comments on: Daily Inspiration #110 by Nacho Pello

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:10:34 +0000

Shooting from the hip? There is no way you can compose properly and get a decent shot unless you shoot hundreds of images and only then if your luck, which is rare. Look through the viewfinder, compose and don’t be afraid. Shooting from the hip is creepy. Go on utube and look up Cartier Bresson and see some of his videos and how he shoots. If your that afraid get a angled viewfinder like Helen Levitt had, at least you can see what your getting instead of guessing.

By: sori gottdenker

sori gottdenker — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:38:59 +0000

Fantastic! i love your images!!

By: Brian Quintos

Brian Quintos — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 02:44:24 +0000

The black & white’s and this flickr guy “pippowashere” inspired me to do this:

By: Richard Ford

Richard Ford — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 13:23:59 +0000

Great tones and pastels on the second shot. Lucky film is pretty good. China has a very big love of film still. As does most of Asia. So as long as we have Fuji – film will live..

By: Nacho Pello

Nacho Pello — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:15:57 +0000

thanks a lot for your kind comments
thanks steve for the support

@Michiel
they are shooted at full aperture because the lens will not stop down due to the modification as you can read in the article, I buy a 1.2 to be used at 1.2, if I want another f stop I can use another cheaper lens (although this was really cheap too).
From the hip to be unnoticed.

@Stephen, yes I tend to abuse with dof, and Im going to start shooting stopped down a little bit more, is something I have in mind for a while, thanks for your advise, I think you are right

Regards,
Nacho

By: Stephen B

Stephen B — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:28:29 +0000

In my view these work well ‘wide open’ but looking at your Flickr stream, you seem to shoot almost everything wide open and while often with great results one cannot help but wonder how they might have looked stopped down a bit. Food for thought. Takes nothing away from these shots mind you, especially number 2. Just wow!

By: Michiel

Michiel — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:14:40 +0000

I have to ask this. While the shots are nice, why, I pray, were they all shot “wide open” (and from the hip)?

I do like the do-it-yourself approach to equipment though; great!

By: Elaine

Elaine — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:33:02 +0000

I love these, especially the second one..

By: Matthias

Matthias — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:17:07 +0000

Hi Nacho,
your photos on the flickr page are really amazing shots; I like them, congratulations !!!

Matthias, Germany

By: Mads Pallesen

Mads Pallesen — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:39:01 +0000

Amazing images! Second one is just priceless.

Mads