Ice Cream

In my neighborhood there are lots of ice cream vendors. Some ride around in trucks while others have carts like this one. I like the carts. These guys work hard pushing these things up and down the streets. My son is too young to know what ice cream is yet, but loves the sound of the bells they ring when they come around our house. It makes me want an ice cream.

I have known Ortiz (pictured here) for a long time and today he just happened to be in front of my studio. Ortiz only speaks Spanish. My skills are enough to ask him “Hey, how about letting me take a few photos of you?”. “No problema”, he said and wheeled his cart right onto the studio floor. I snapped a few quick shots of him with a single strobe (I used a Canon 580 with an umbrella – full low budget and fast strobist style!).  Using a 70-200mm F2.8 Canon lens and my new 5DMark II, I snapped about 40 quick frames in 5 minutes. You should see the images close up – the detail looks great with this camera! Ortiz didn’t want to smile and that was Ok with me, I like the way he looks naturally. He’s the tough Ice Cream Man! A few times he laughed, but I didn’t like the way it looked as much as this one.

I told Ortiz to drop by later and I would give him a print. Then I bought an ice cream. I could hear the sound of little bells fading as he pushed his cart up the street.

*Note: SickShots was a bit neglected over the last few weeks because of the flurry of weddings I have been shooting. Hey, gotta pay the bills! I finally, got a chance to look through some of the images from weddings over the last few months and updated my site- check it out- www.davecollyer.net.

Posted on Saturday, June 20th, 2009 at 9:53 pm. Filed under: Photography Tags: 580 Ex, 70-200mm, Canon, ice cream, Mark2 5D, Ortiz, strobist RSS 2.0 feed.