This follow up stranger was not as much about the conversation but pushing myself to ask for permission. In this case, we were hitting up Marshalls and Ross before going to Sam’s Club (big box heaven out here!). I kept procrastinating, but when my wife decided that we needed to head home instead of going to Sam’s Club, I realized it was now or never.
So before going to the checkout line I went ahead and asked Justin (as you can see I got it from his name tag) to let me take a few shots and he happily obliged. These loss prevention folks fill the role as greeter / pseudo security guard (I don’ think they have weapons), and he was friendly when we came in (he said hello to my toddler and smiled back when she grinned at him).
His coworkers gave him a little ribbing so I think we all got a kick out of it! And lucky for me too, cause he was a couple minutes away from ending his shift…he actually left the building before I did.
I took four shots, this was the only one that came out well. I had my 24mm manual lens on the camera and even though I had it stopped down to 5.6 the others all came out a bit fuzzy (though in all honesty, the other compositions were also god awful). In the future I will need to stop down more or just make sure to have my AF lens. When shooting dozens of shots of my daughter, AFing is not nearly as important as when you only get a few chances.
