What He Likes About My Photo

Tyler Ellis. Summer 2011.

This is my boyfriend, Tyler. We both have a thing (and by thing I mean BIIIG THIIING) for cameras. I shoot stills and he mostly does video. Anyway, he had this photo as his profile picture on facebook for awhile. The main thing he liked about it was that it made his lens look BIG. As, it's actually a small lens. It's a 50mm f/1.4 USM. He's a guy. He likes big things...

There's a short story that goes along with this photo. It begins with, he was taking a picture of something and just before he was done I told him to hang on where he was 'cause I wanted to take a photo. So he did, but I couldn't get the reflection in the lens to look the way I wanted to (in real life it was reflecting some really awesome colors from the other side of the river). However, after I took my test shots he thought I was done and then kept walking. He didn't think I was taking a photo of any importance and didn't want to keep standing there. The photo above is the test photo that I took, which I showed him later on in our walk that day. He saw and said it was awesome! He really liked it. To which my reply was, "It was going to be better, but you wouldn't let me take it." I made him kind of embarrassed that he didn't wait.

So, overall he liked the photo as it was. He said my framming was fantastic, the colors looked good together, the exposure was good, and again, it made his lens look really big. To which I also say, it's a completely unedited photo (except for the fact that it was shot in jpeg and processed by the camera.)