“Hail Mary” Photography

He didn’t look like a Jamaican thug or drug dealer but about a dozen heavily armed police surrounded him as we passed by. My camera was quickly, but “innocently placed” between the seats in the open jeep and I hit the shutter in a “Hail Mary” move.  Even if I shot this scene from a still position, I would have still exposed and post-processed to get the same dark, grainy result…that is what I like. I’ll save the near-perfect exposures for other subjects and situations. As I have written before, it is better to capture a moment, in whatever form, than to miss the moment entirely. In this situation, the final exposure fit the mood.