Nancy Armstrong
July 2025 - Dexterity
About the Image(s)
I do love to take photos of hands, and this is one of my favorites. The gentleman in the photo is a shoe repairer who owns a small shop downtown in the Plaza in Kansas City. He was kind enough to let me take photos of him working. To thank him I printed out a copy, had it framed and gave it to him a few weeks after I took the photo. The last time I checked it was still hanging on the wall in his shop.
5 comments posted
Hi Nancy,
I would like to know more about the technical aspects (camera settings and so on) and how you processed the image. It is not going to change how wonderful the image is, but it will instruct me (and others in this group) to try some new techniques.
Nice work.
Posted: 07/18/2025 05:01:22
I would like to know more about the technical aspects (camera settings and so on) and how you processed the image. It is not going to change how wonderful the image is, but it will instruct me (and others in this group) to try some new techniques.
Nice work.
Posted: 07/18/2025 05:01:22
I had to go back and check; I took this with my first Fuji X100 camera that I love for street photography. It's a smallish fixed lens camera with a crop sensor, the EXIF data says there is no lens data but that the focal length was 33 mm, so I think that's what the 50mm lens translates to if it was a full frame camera?
ISO 320; f/2.8; SS 1/160 sec. I took this a few years ago and fussed with the images I took in his shop a lot so I don't really recall any details of how I processed it, but I would guess I probably took it from Lightroom into NIK Silver Efex. I like that an app a lot for black and white images. Posted: 07/20/2025 00:22:47
ISO 320; f/2.8; SS 1/160 sec. I took this a few years ago and fussed with the images I took in his shop a lot so I don't really recall any details of how I processed it, but I would guess I probably took it from Lightroom into NIK Silver Efex. I like that an app a lot for black and white images. Posted: 07/20/2025 00:22:47
Thanks for sharing. A small camera is great for street photography, as it is not too intimidating for the subject!
I used to be in a Monochrome DD group. When I first joined, I thought I just chose a subject that would look good in BW and then press the BW button in LightRoom. After see the wonderful work done in the group, and so many people raving about NIK Silver Efex, I purchased it. WOW! Not all BW post processing is equal. I love that program. Posted: 07/21/2025 00:01:50
I used to be in a Monochrome DD group. When I first joined, I thought I just chose a subject that would look good in BW and then press the BW button in LightRoom. After see the wonderful work done in the group, and so many people raving about NIK Silver Efex, I purchased it. WOW! Not all BW post processing is equal. I love that program. Posted: 07/21/2025 00:01:50
Wonderful image which tells a story...how nice that it is hanging in his shop. You have done a great job capturing his hands and showing off his handiwork too with the shoe. I might have just cropped in a tad on the left handside. Great photo. Posted: 07/23/2025 20:13:14
This composition says it all. I see his hands. I see what they produce. I see how he is dressed. I see him doing his work. No distractions for me. Lovely. I do admire all your hand photos from the first time I saw one. None of them looks like a snapshot. Posted: 07/28/2025 20:40:06