Busted

Posted by Twelvebit (Victoria, United States) on 28 June 2008 in Cityscape & Urban.

San Antonio Image 12

This will be the last image in the San Antonio series. In spite of the title this photo is not what it looks like. I was experimenting with images at ISO 3200 and taking pictures of my wife as we listened to the band and drank frozen margaritas from our hotel's outdoor bar. She happened to turn away just as I pressed the shutter release and those young women in the background --well, I don't know how they got in the photo. Really. No. Listen. Really.

VFXY Photos | Cool Photoblogs | Listed on Photoblogs.org

Comments (12)

Saeed from Tehran, Iran

nice shot , well experiment ;)

28 Jun 2008 1:29am

étranger from Toronto, Canada

Absolutely brillliant...well done.

28 Jun 2008 4:15am

bluechameleon from Vancouver, Canada

I love shots such as this. Layers of lives all to be seen.
Excellent!

28 Jun 2008 7:59am

@bluechameleon: Thank you.

JoeB from Brampton, Canada

I think the title is perfectly appropriate in this case. I'm not a professional photo critic but here are some points that I noticed.
- ISO 3200, going to capture everything possible.
- Wife blocking background no distractions, attention shifts to the right.
- Wife's face is turned no facial features, attention shifts to the right.
- Wife is out of focus camera's with AF aren't they wonderful, attention shifts to the right.
- The golly gee look at the picture I took (as I pressed the shutter) just doesn't cut it.
- Nice framing of the girls, the shot is very humorous.

28 Jun 2008 9:20am

@JoeB: I'm not completely happy with the ISO 3200 setting. Notice the difference between the foreground noise where there isn't much light and the background where there is significant light in the hotel lobby.

Daryl from Amagasaki, Japan

Love it!

28 Jun 2008 9:47am

Observing from Local, United Kingdom

Did you really think she would'nt notice what you were up to...? I think it's the doghouse for you mate.

28 Jun 2008 10:23am

@Observing: Well, I'm a lot craftier in my old age than I was when I first got married. But most of it is probably just the sense that comes along with old age that makes attractive young women sort of an abstraction. And for one thing, no matter how attractive they are, most of them just aren't that interesting. Then there's the fact that I've been married to the same woman for 25 years, and in all that time I've never met another woman who interested me even half as much as my wife.

sherri from Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

:-)

28 Jun 2008 10:31am

MadScientist from Düsseldorf, Germany

Certainly there was an error in the face recognition module of your camera.
ISO 3200 - wanna have too!

28 Jun 2008 4:34pm

@MadScientist: There may be something wrong with my camera. From time to time images of women in shorts or short skirts show up in the background of my photos.

Sandy from Ontario, United States

great shot! I love it when you don't quite capture what you expected, yet it turns out to be a great shot!

28 Jun 2008 4:57pm

MadScientist from Düsseldorf, Germany

BTW: your 400th photograph here - congrats!

28 Jun 2008 8:02pm

@MadScientist: I can't help feeling like a pilot in Catch-22, and I keep expecting that by the time I get to 500 they'll raise the number of required missions. As far as the ISO goes, it's sort of a trade-off --high ISO, slow lens. But I guess I'd really be kicking if could use the 3200 ISO with an f1.4 lens.

danthro from Suburbia, United States

interesting... your poor wife

30 Jun 2008 7:56pm

@danthro: Well, actually, she afterwards was remarking about the attention the girls were getting --from others, not me-- and talking about how much she was enjoying watching the people on the Riverwalk. I was also taking photos of people at the patio bar, but I didn't like any of those enough to post.