July 30, 2004: Pretty Girls Eat Spicy Wings
I'm interrupting my East Village series to bring you some hot, spicy pictures from Tien Mao's weekly chicken wings night at Croxleys in the East Village. I went to confirm the legend of ten cent wings- they turned out to exist, with an additional bonus: $4 beers. All the BBQ sauce and beer made it difficult to shoot these portraits- and since I only brought my Tilt/Shift lens (I shot 9th to 11th street afterwards), I tried to use it to maximum advantage. It doesn't have auto focus, though- so that might explain some of the blur. One additional note: to the best of my knowledge, all the ladies pictured above are already taken. Sorry!
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yes, the sexy bitch i am...totally taken.
and i didn't mean to imply that the pretty girls ate only spicy wings- both the spicy and the regular wings moved very quickly. tien: how many wings were consumed?
I've never used a tilt shift lens before so I'm not sure how you're getting that strange blur. It doesn't seem to make sense because some people who are the same distance from the lens are in focus while the person next to them is not. And in one photo a girl mid distance is blurred while a girl way back in the distance isn't. I could see if you were shooting wide open how you'd get a lot of bokeh because of the shallow depth of field but this is really strange. It it the nature of a tilt shift lens?
look at the fifth picture down- notice how she is in focus, as is the girl behind her, but the rest isn't? what the tilt function on a tilt/shift lens does is swing the depth of field away from perpendicular with the camera plane. so the line of focus is sort of a diaganol, with things off that line not in focus.
yes i see definitly it now, how the line of focus has shifted (hah tilt SHIFT lens, i should have known!). really interesting how that lens works... learned something new.
nice
That's a great effect, Jake. More, please.
ooh, my belly made it into one shot.
I need to get in on this (and I'm not taken!).
yes, this girl must eat the mild wings... cause even with those my lips burn off.
nice pictures!
Christina looks so content in the photo with her eyes shut. She looks like a happy, well-chicken fed chickie.
It was a great wing night - a "YAY" to Tien!
Who knew! Wings and tilt-shift lens goes well together. Definitely an interesting look.
that tilt/shift produces some gorgeous photos! gorgeous subjects help too. mmmm wings... haven't found good ones in philly just yet. anybody know where to get some good wings in philly?
can anyone come to these charming gatherings? i love four dollar beer!
best wings in philly: moriarty's on 11th/walnut & tangiers on 18th/lombard
Yeah man, I really like the tilt-shift effect...maybe you should use it for portraits more often.
nice job, good angles and light fixes.
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