I think part of my question here contains elements of the "way" in which the photographers uses his/her equipment.(posted 8087 days ago)If I were to take the shot Jeff posted, I'd have the kid making faces at the camera. Being really close tends to make people self- conscious or pissed. I don't know how to avoid that.
Some members of the Rollei TLR club suggested doing close people photography with a TLR at waist level in a prefocused mode. I've tried that and it works quite well.
However, eye level "gun" style shooting is very obvious and, for me, tends to distract my subject.
How do you actually use your camera when photographing in close?
I've heared that Bresson would keep his Leica very low behind his long coat, totally concealed with his hands (except for the lens), and then quickly raise it up, barely looking in the viewfinder, take the photo, and then drop it out of sight again, walking on.
If you are photographing people very close, what's your method? This is a very serious question...I'd like to work on this skill.