>>3049206And to expand on that, with shots like this one, shooting his face if he were turned around here would have totally changed the pic to old guy walking away from a cool city, instead of how I see it now as old guy I can imagine as myself walking towards a cool city.
Shooting people and the things they're walking towards makes me able to transplant myself into the person I'm shooting and feel their anticipation as they're about to go wherever it is they're about to go. Shooting people head-on prevents me from being able to transplant myself into that person, since it becomes about them, and doesn't show where they're going so much as where they've been, which is much less interesting to me in most cases.