So I was at the coffee shop draining my brain of life doing some work (and subsequently reading a photo mag to counterbalance said drainage), when these two lovely ladies bust out STITCHING KITS! “WHOA, COOL!”….that’s freak’n awesome, man. They were making sweater tops. Not often you see that every day. Very individualistic and very colorful. You all know I love color. These colorful ladies also had equally colorful names, Tacki and Astrid.They thought I was a tourist (I don’t blame them, I carry a camera EVERYWHERE I go). I was attracted to the stitching and colors. So naturally, with curiosity as a driving force, conversation ensues. We talked about “stitchin’ bitches,” selling socks on eBay for $300, some hairdresser from Innsbruck (Austria), affluent Arabians buying up the whole of Munich, and the list goes on. It was very entertaining. Tacki was ever so willingly to share some cool links. Google “knit graffiti.” Pretty awesome stuff. Thanks again ladies!
*Technique:
Not great, but a good lesson learned. The picture is pretty soft, but the interaction more than made up for my technical shortcomings. Emphasis is put on the social part of the project right? Or at least that’s my excuse. Or maybe the hands are blurry to depict the intensity at which she knitted....
I know better than this though. I should have shot wide-open with max ISO, BUT I didn’t. My reasoning was that I didn’t want it to be soft because of wide-open, and I didn’t want it to be noisy because of max ISO. Low light is tricky, but I will conquer it one day! With enough lessons by #100, I should be on the right track :D
Nice photo with great colours :) aha and yeah those low light photos are tricky ones :P and the photo would look a lot better if her face wasnt so blurry lol but I like this and good capture, I look forward to the next person :P
ReplyDeleteHey, you really do this project ;-)
ReplyDeleteLike your photos.
Astrid
You misspelled my name. :p And another small correction, it's "Stitch 'n Bitch." I just realized it's a really old phrase that's been used since WW II: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stitch_%27n_Bitch
ReplyDeleteYour project really looks like a lot of fun. ;-)
Cheers,
Tacki
Astrid, I told you I was doing a project even though I don't have that many 'strangers.' You should have let me taken you portrait, you had cool colors too :D
ReplyDeleteHey, Tacki! Oops! Sorry about your name. I wrote it down correctly on my paper, but your Moo card confused me :P
Cool meeting you ladies. If you want to continue talking about the most random stuff feel free to hit me up on Facebook. Tschüss!