We had a great day shooting around the center of the city, mainly around Flinders Street Station and Federation Square. Even though it's winter and mid-week, hundreds of people are out and about off to various areas of Melbourne. It's great to be able to sit back and watch this in action as people head to the station or Fed-Square's recently created 'campfire'. It's definitely the best part of what we do, meeting a variety of people and hearing their stories.
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While just having a look around Fed-Square this girl caught our eye. We were immediately jealous by how warm she looked in this gorgeous poncho!
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It's great having a wonder around Flinders Street later in the afternoon as so many people pass us by, each with a different style, pace and place to be. It's hard to spot people in the massive crowds unless they're wearing something bright, or really outrageous. This girl stood out in front of the Flinders Street station clocks due to her patterned skirt and jumper.
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People ask us all the time why we only seem to take photos of people who seem quite young, however we in no way partake in anyform of age descrimination. It just seems that most of the people who catch our eye are of the younger generation. That's why we got really exited when we saw this guy sitting out the front of the library having a smoke. He had a sense of elegance and ettiquette about him as he watched the world go by.
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One of the sadest things about doing a blog like this one is that it almost creates a another life or world within the life you already have. And as much as you want or try to combine them there's still segragration. We go out people watching, see someone we think is special, ask them if we can take their photo, maybe have a little chat to them, take their photo, then say thanks and generally never see them again. Which sometimes doesn't seem fair when you take someones photo who seems really nice and gorgeous as this girl was and you wish you had of met them in your normal life. But that's just the way it is.
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When doing street portraits, as a lot of people would know, it's all about finding the right person, combining them with the best possible background and hoping the light is obliging. It's almost a little miracle when all three come together. That's why when we saw this aboriginal fire at Fed-Square we knew we had the basis to create a great picture. We just had to find the right person and I believe we did!
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Often we see someone we would really like to get a picture of but they're too far away or moving too fast and we loose them. We saw this guy and literally ran a hundred metres after him and thankfully caught him.
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Anyone who has wings on their shoes is kicking serious goals in my book.
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This girl was almost glowing as we saw her coming down the laneway in the opposite direction to which we were heading. Three of us scrambled our cameras together to see who would get her picture. She and the guy shown above were really cool to have a chat to.
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