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Summerfair portrait.img3641985, with story

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For a number of years, I would exhibit at a large outdoor art festival known as Summerfair, in Ohio, USA.  Crowds were enormous, profits not so much.  To pass my time in the hot sun, I would select interesting people to photograph.  This beautiful woman in eastern european outfit was kind enough to pose for me.  She was allowing me serious poses, but when she changed to this look I concluded this series knowing I had the one I wanted.  

In film days, you had to pay attention to the moment of exposure since there was no way to know exactly what you had until it was processed and printed.  Since the Leica had no mirror block up, you never had to wonder what the expression was as you pressed the shutter.

Taken in 1976, with my Leica M2 with a 90mm F4.0 Elmar on Kodak Panatomic X, an ultra fine grain, long tone range, black and white panchromatic film, with an ASA of 32.

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She is confident and inquisitive. Great capture. :clap: