I was in Chicago for a D-65 Lightroom workshop, given by Seth Resnick. Since Seth is based in Miami, he had contracted with well-known Chicago photographer Jeff Schewe to hold the event at Jeff’s studio on West School Street. I was staying east of there, towards Lake Michigan, and not needing a car I walked to and from the sessions.
This was the evening after the last day, and I walked down the street to find a restaurant for dinner. But not before walking around the neighborhood on the sunny summer evening, looking for images. There were people dining al fresco here and there, and I found myself on an east-west street, with the sun low in the western horizon streaming down the block.
The red brick of the building across the street caught my eye, and, as I am wont to do, I waited. Waited for a figure to come through my frame, to add a human element of interest and scale. There were several, but they came west to east, left to right. I needed someone coming the other way, to be facing the sun, not to have the back of their head illuminated but it.
And then suddenly here she came, a jogger going along the sidewalk at a decent clip.
I focused and hit the motor drive. I got 5 images, and #3 was the keeper, the one with the best subject position in the frame. I could see I had what I needed, and that was that.
