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Rob C

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Photography Lesson #1
« on: May 28, 2016, 01:47:08 pm »

How to be a better photographer? Learn from the Masters!

This is the special camera-gripping hand-position technique recommended for all photographers faced with the unexpected challenge of having to compose and execute a vertical photograph without cropping.

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Re: Photography Lesson #1
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2016, 02:40:35 pm »

I assume this is a reflection in a mirror. The shutter button's in the wrong place for a straight-on shot.
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Re: Photography Lesson #1
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2016, 03:04:08 pm »

I assume this is a reflection in a mirror. The shutter button's in the wrong place for a straight-on shot.


What's to be done, Russ? I have no assistant. ;-)

Which leads me to thinking about Lesson  #2...

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Re: Photography Lesson #1
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2016, 06:33:51 pm »

Interesting, I'll have to try it. I guess this will not be practical with long lenses

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Re: Photography Lesson #1
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2016, 06:39:40 pm »

I just assumed it was one of those left-handed cameras.
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Re: Photography Lesson #1
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2016, 02:08:47 am »

This is all wrong. Modern camera lenses are designed to be "cusped". You put your hand under the lens to support it (plus the camera) and the lens is designed to allow simple focusing and zooming. Just look at the vast majority of modern pro photographers.

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Re: Photography Lesson #1
« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2016, 04:03:31 am »

This is all wrong. Modern camera lenses are designed to be "cusped". You put your hand under the lens to support it (plus the camera) and the lens is designed to allow simple focusing and zooming. Just look at the vast majority of modenr pro photographers.

Cheers,

As Slobodan says, when everyone thinks the same, no-one thinks.

Have you tried it? In my late 70s, it took me until recently - so don't feel embarrased. It also needs the bulges of modern computers camera to hold that way.

I don't think Peter Lindbergh need give a shit about the rest of the modenr (sic) pro photographers; he's up in the right age bracket too: no shame, just results. ;-)

This is obviously time for the next step in finding a great career; subscribe, and be able to watch the following mentoring opportunity proudly offered in the next instalment.

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Re: Photography Lesson #1
« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2016, 04:09:21 am »

Last night I put the tripod collar on the 70-200, expecting to use the monopod. As it happens I didn't, but at one stage I was lying on a cushion at the foot of the stage, hanging the camera from the knob on the collar. It worked, I got a lovely shot up the pianist's nostrils.
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Re: Photography Lesson #1
« Reply #8 on: May 29, 2016, 04:16:59 am »

Sorry Rob, but your photo is all wrong, the shutter release is on the other side of the camera.

You seem to be saying that 99% of pro photographers are wrong!

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Re: Photography Lesson #1
« Reply #9 on: May 29, 2016, 04:49:45 am »

Sorry Rob, but your photo is all wrong, the shutter release is on the other side of the camera.

You seem to be saying that 99% of pro photographers are wrong!

Cheers,

Tom what can I say?

Is the sin of cropping not dangerous enough; would you have me risk the terrible punishments held in store for those who distort the reality, the purity of their images? I crumble on the floor: I can't do it, I can't reverse the truth! Forgive my weaknesses!

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Re: Photography Lesson #1
« Reply #10 on: May 29, 2016, 05:00:41 am »

Last night I put the tripod collar on the 70-200, expecting to use the monopod. As it happens I didn't, but at one stage I was lying on a cushion at the foot of the stage, hanging the camera from the knob on the collar. It worked, I got a lovely shot up the pianist's nostrils.

Are we still in the sex thread? I thought this was a place of learning! Well okay, I grant you that; there's much to learn there, but hanging from a knob isn't something I feel adds much to the educational qualities of this thread. Of course, others may have a different experience, an alternative interface as well as a more developed structure.

Les grèves qui se déroulent en France: now there's something cute for the Tourist Board to pursue! Obviously, it's probably all far too risqué for us to investigate here.

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Rob
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