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Strangers in the park

I went to Englischer Garten (a big, central park in Munich) with another photographer a few days ago. I have managed to take a few interesting photos, but I also managed to snag two photos of strangers. One I asked to just keep reading his book, for more candid look, and the other I asked to pose for me, for a classical-style portrait.

A man in a white shirt, with glasses, sitting on a bench reading a book.
X-T4, XF18-55mm, f/5.6 1/500 ISO 320
A shirtless man sitting outdoors, hands in front of him, with a tattoo going in from his shoulder into the torso
XT4, Ricoh 50mm 1:2 adapted manual lens, 1/1000 ISO 200, aperture unknown

I'm relatively satisfied with the two photos. I tried a few different edits, as you can see in the overhead photo of this article. If I had another shot, I would perhaps change the framing, camera just a bit higher in the first photo, and framing different to get the pillar out of the way in the second photo, but otherwise those look good to me.

This article was updated on August 2, 2023
Zlatko Đurić

Zlatko Đurić

Zlatko Đurić works in the software industry, and this site is his creative outlet for photography. He's usually photographing with his Fuji X-T4 camera or his Google Pixel 8 Pro phone, ocassionally adding some Lumix GF1 and Lumix GF2 photos in the mix, or scanning the film shots from his Ricoh KR-10 and Fujifilm Instax wide cameras.