Many photographers have shot this place many times and sometimes it’s not easy to come up with something great because there’s only so much you can do with a static room. The only variables that can be changed or moved is the human subject, and yourself, and your composition. So I decided to do something really different and spent almost an hour getting this shot because there was one major obstacle when shooting here: the people don’t want you to take their picture! They will ALWAYS move away when you point your lens at them. 

So here’s what I did:

I decided I wanted to shoot with a wideangle, and show a nice perspective from the ground up, so I laid down on the floor, and wanted to have a human subject right in front of me. The moment I did that, the people moved away…! So to counter this problem, I just laid there pretending I wasn’t shooting.. after many, many minutes.. like 20-30 minutes or so  (I always do this and after some time, people just get used to me being there), a guy started walking towards me to look at the display behind me. My camera was down on the floor and I couln’t look through the viewfinder, so he thought I wasn’t shooting, and because I had my lens on 16mm, he didn’t think he’d appear in the frame. I shot several frames while he was looking up. In some frames his leg position wasn’t very nice, but I managed to get this shot above where you could see separation between both his legs, put him in the right-third of the frame, get the main graph display almost in the center of the image, show some people in the background busy looking at stocks, show the entire room with displays all around, and create a dramatic sense of perspective playing with the lines that lead into the center-top of the picture.

Yes, that’s what goes through my head when I shoot a simple picture and that’s what you should do too if you wanna be a great shooter: everything you see in the viewfinder counts. Stay tuned for my next post in this series…

Cheers.

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