Lucky random shot

Back in 2005 I got my first DSLR: a Digital Rebel XT. I was at a neighbor's house party and was showing it off. The camera was in full auto mode and I was showing how quickly it would snap off shots. I literally just pointed it out into the hallway where some of the kids were standing and snapped 3 photos without looking - no sighting through the view finder. My head was actually turned away from the shot.

2 of the 3 were completely blurred and off frame. Then there was this shot:


I've taken over 12K photos with my DSLR's over the last 3.5 years yet this is still one of my favorites because it was completely random. I know I didn't have the talent to stage it.

neat neat neat!

i love the sun light shinning from the left

and also the girl on the left looking at the girl on the right

i seem to be able to see some kind of "connection" between the two kids

jonnyyellow said:

neat neat neat!

i love the sun light shinning from the left

and also the girl on the left looking at the girl on the right

i seem to be able to see some kind of "connection" between the two kids

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Thanks! The girls are twins. Not identical but to this day I cannot tell them apart.

Great shot!!!!!!!!!

Excellent shot. The lighting is close to perfect. Thanks for sharing.

Beautifully done!!

this picture is so beautiful.
the lighting is just so perfect you feel it's impossible to recreate it later

For a second there I thought she was looking in a mirror ;P

It's a great shot. She looks a bit like a younger Elisabeth Moss

that is a great picture for not even trying!

Lol, every picture you see, "naw, I can do that barely even trying"

Nice indeed. Looks like a photo you'd see on a stock photo website.

Thanks for the nice comments! The reason I found the photo was because I was importing my photo collection into iPhoto and ran across it. Just to give you a sense for the randomness of the photo, here was the shot taken right before it:



As I recall the person at the party was complaining about their PnS camera recycle time. I whipped up the camera and took the above shot and then just snapped the shutter again without looking for the shot from the first post in this thread.

So yes, I can take shots like this without even trying! It's when I try that the shots aren't that great.