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Unknown Urban Cowboy, Weapon Drawn*
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29-SEP-2004 designboy

9th Place
Unknown Urban Cowboy, Weapon Drawn*
by Designboy

Kungsholmen, Stockholm

Guarding one of Stockholms most busy crossings. Looking like John Wayne..?
I'm not sure this qualifies as decisive, maybe just candid.

© 2004 Jonas Svedberg

Canon EOS 20D ,Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
1/160s f/4.0 at 17.0mm iso100 hide exif
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Date/Time29-Sep-2004 12:26:16
MakeCanon
ModelCanon EOS 20D
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length17 mm
Exposure Time1/160 sec
Aperturef/4
ISO Equivalent100
Exposure Bias
White Balance (-1)
Metering Mode
JPEG Quality (6)
Exposure Programprogram (1)
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Guest 08-Oct-2004 05:34
Thank you Jude and Jono. Well tell you the truth I'm starting to feel uncertain on the meaning of "candid". I would probably have said in the header: "I'm not sure this qualifies as decisive, maybe just a street photo."
I don't think he smiled, at least not at me (though he defenetly saw me, me using a 17mm...). He looked like that when I approached him. Maybe he had just received a happy message in his cellular, don't know. Or else he's a male Mona Lisa. "Session" over in 5 sec, two shots. /Jonas
Canon DSLR Challenge05-Oct-2004 18:05
I like this photo. He oviously saw you, but it adds to the shot... - Jono
jude04-Oct-2004 03:24
Excellent candid portrait.. you caught him... but he's smiling at seeing it. perfect b&w tonal range.
Jonathan (Yoni) Nissanov30-Sep-2004 02:16
Don't know-somewhere between. A good street photograph to be sure. On the one hand it involves more than the face in that the phone, the cig, the sachel, cloth are all contributing to defining a character. There is a scene both around him and reflected behind him. So a good street portrait. No strong story relating him to the surrounding except the one relating him to you. Perhaps he was about to call and you stepped into the scene. I guess I think of the decisive moment image as necessarily involving a story. Many great portraits have critical timing (e.g. Churchill by Karsh) yet I don't think we would classify those as decisive moments.