The Yellow Helmet

Posted on 30 August 2006

A father picks up the yellow helmet dropped by his son in front of the Body Shop on Patrick’s Street, Cork last Saturday. I was sitting on one of the marble blocks that pass as street furniture on our main thoroughfare. I had my camera ready to shoot when I saw them passing and within a heartbeat had snapped off a few shots.

I like this: King Corner – great sky and architecture shot. All in your hands…. – keep on smiling!

Category: Candid, Cork, Ireland, People, Photos, Sigma 10-20, St Patrick's Street, Street, Urban
Tags: baby, boy, Candid, children, Cork, Cork Photos, father, helmet, Ireland, Irish photos, People, Photos, pram, Sigma 10-20, St Patrick's Street, Street, the-body-shop, Urban, yellow

9 responses to The Yellow Helmet

Flickr: Psycrow says:

August 30, 2006 at 2:19 am

I’ve got to get myself a 10mm lens. Angles are always great.Love the tones in this shot, and it’s a good capture for the effect.

Flickr: xeer says:

August 30, 2006 at 2:53 am

Thanks, I really love the lens, and believe it or not, this is a cropped shot, but still probably wider/taller than a kit lens.

ABM says:

August 30, 2006 at 4:41 pm

How long was the exposure on that?

My particular problem is that I only have one hand. I haven’t figured out how to change my zoom while releaseing the shutter. I imagine it’s easier with long exposures in that I don’t need to hold the camera… though timing the zoom would be much harder to ensure the effect exposed properly.

Donncha says:

August 30, 2006 at 4:58 pm

ABM – it’s actually a short exposure but I used the motion blur plugins to create the zoom effect! When I manage to do it in-camera it’s usually by accident when I was zoomed in and wanted to zoom out quickly but the bad light kept the shutter open..

Flickr: Mike Cohn says:

August 30, 2006 at 6:54 am

Nice capture!(1-2-3)

Flickr: recursion_see_recursion says:

August 30, 2006 at 10:58 am

Good timing!

Flickr: rakelilla says:

August 31, 2006 at 1:55 am

good capture

.. says:

March 25, 2007 at 11:22 am

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First time fathers says:

October 10, 2008 at 9:28 am

Nice picture! You are able to caught the exact move of the father. Well, i guess your professional in using camera.

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