Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: Slobodan Blagojevic on November 24, 2019, 09:56:24 am
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Let’s start with an ad I saw:
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Standing next to a cow in India moments before she head butted me, effectively restricting my movement and activities for a week.
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Let’s start with an ad I saw:
Hmm. I always have at the back of my mind the vague idea that I'd quite like to be around for the post-processing.
Jeremy
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The guy who took that picture knew where to stand not that other idiot. :)
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They guy is using a long lens, so the perspective wouldn't change much if he moved a few meters to safety. This takes away the impact of the ad for me.
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They guy is using a long lens, so the perspective wouldn't change much if he moved a few meters to safety.
Earlier today I started writing this exact take that you have posted. For this reason, I believe this perhaps in a composite photo...
Peter
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Although, in this case I think we'd all agree that his long lens photographs better. :)
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Earlier today I started writing this exact take that you have posted. For this reason, I believe this perhaps in an composite photo...
Peter
Yeah, that or someone was really heavy with the sharpening and the compression exaggerated it.
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Standing on the parapet of a skyscraper to photograph another skyscraper.
In my defense, it was not windy and the parapet was rather wide, but security sure looked uneasy.
Another, standing at the edge of a sloped roof that had no parapet to photography another skyscraper. This building was only 4 stories with a couple ledges underneath, so I am pretty sure I would have survived if I fell.
I also had my first insurance company cancel on me since they prefer not to insure professionals who knowingly put their equipment in precarious situations. When I told my current company that for what, they just laughed and said they have photographers who put themselves in much worse situations.
Not so precarious, but awkward and embarrassing at the same. I have to access a lot of roofs for what I do and one time I needed to get on the roof of a hospital just outside of DC. It was a rather hot day in the summer and the head of construction for the hospital was a fit attractive woman in her mid-30s who decided to wear a short skirt to work that day. To be honest, I did not think about what she was wearing until she climbed up the 15 foot ladder to unlock the roof hatch. I followed behind her and naturally looked up, and then proceeded to climb a ladder looking straight ahead. I had no plans on mentioning anything, but I guess she noticed how I was climbing, decided to bring it up and, in so many words, apologized for wearing a skirt.
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Not so precarious, but awkward and embarrassing at the same. I have to access a lot of roofs for what I do and one time I needed to get on the roof of a hospital just outside of DC. It was a rather hot day in the summer and the head of construction for the hospital was a fit attractive woman in her mid-30s who decided to wear a short skirt to work that day. To be honest, I did not think about what she was wearing until she climbed up the 15 foot ladder to unlock the roof hatch. I followed behind her and naturally looked up, and then proceeded to climb a ladder looking straight ahead. I had no plans on mentioning anything, but I guess she noticed how I was climbing, decided to bring it up and, in so many words, apologized for wearing a skirt.
Just had to do it....nice beaver...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvWfbIe4X_4
For me, its hanging out the side of Helicopters and on perches high above a boats deck, shooting moving boats. Worst ever, on my first time ever in the perch which was a 3'x3' railed affair I hung the battery pack for the gyro on one of the top rails. After a run I told the boat driver to slow, and and he did my completely pulling the throttle back to zero from a high speed run. Needless to say the battery pack swung outward from the slowing of the boat and then swung backwards toward me. Not paying attention to the battery and trying to stablize myself the battery hit me in a most sensitive spot. Not the finest start.
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I often photograph near cliff edges on the SW coast of Portugal. When trying to reach particular locations that afford great views, or new views, I am always careful, and never push my luck.
There are a couple of locations that I only go to when there is no wind, or the wind is not strong.
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The most dangerous time for me is whenever I stop the car to get out and photograph something after I told my wife I wouldn't stop the car to photograph something.
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a fall from 6 ft is high enough to result in a fatality. >:(
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I'm pretty cowardly.
My most precarious situation was probably photographing the South Rim of the Grand Canyon from about 12 feet from the edge on a perfectly calm day. :(
The good news is: I'm still here to tell about it! :)
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I'm pretty cowardly.
My most precarious situation was probably photographing the South Rim of the Grand Canyon from about 12 feet from the edge on a perfectly calm day. :(
The good news is: I'm still here to tell about it! :)
You know I took shots from there, but a little closer. Also in Canyonlands especially by the rim of Dead Horse Point. There were no barriers and I have to tell you I was nervous and leaned backwards just in case some mysterious force grabbed me and pulled me to the cliff. Driving the roads in the southwest often with no barriers by the cliffs also made me feel uneasy. Deserts seem more to my liking. When you fall, you fall on sand. :)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/958/41959578421_7ecec5e675_h.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/26VPNPg)
Dead Horse State Park - Canyonlands, Utah (https://flic.kr/p/26VPNPg) by Alan Klein (https://www.flickr.com/photos/alanklein2000/), on Flickr
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I'm pretty cowardly.
My most precarious situation was probably photographing the South Rim of the Grand Canyon from about 12 feet from the edge on a perfectly calm day. :(
The good news is: I'm still here to tell about it! :)
Eric,
I could never that close. Not for any amount of money, no how...
Peter
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This guy on a motorcycle:
https://youtu.be/dgMpxIpoV8c (https://youtu.be/dgMpxIpoV8c)
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Unbelievable.
I rode backwards on a motorcycle once, shooting a bicycle race. But I had somebody in front, riding it. :(
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Canoeing past a pod of hippos on the Zambezi. Rule is, if you're tipped over by a hippo head for the bank, if it's a croc hang onto the canoe. Just need to bear that in mind as you hit the water.
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Canoeing past a pod of hippos on the Zambezi. Rule is, if you're tipped over by a hippo head for the bank, if it's a croc hang onto the canoe. Just need to bear that in mind as you hit the water.
Do the hippo and croc know these rules?
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This guy on a motorcycle:
https://youtu.be/dgMpxIpoV8c (https://youtu.be/dgMpxIpoV8c)
This looks like suicide, but apparantly it isn't..
Thanks for sharing!
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I've found myself in a quite a few precarious spots while shooting mountaineering photos.
But probably most notably, shooting from the back of a moto for a pro cycling race that crossed over 11,312' Monarch Pass twice. Very exciting!
I stand next to big cliffs probably a couple times a week in the summer. Haven't fallen off yet...
(https://live.staticflickr.com/1590/26250923750_b72ab9326a_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/FZGR4C)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/4352/36427069161_17b5868d1f_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/XuWfyz)
Then there's the thin ice...
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49169528752_ae1a3976ff_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hUWFRJ)
This spot at the Black Canyon is next to a 2000'+ drop. I only go for this perspective when it's calm and not wet like the first shot!
(https://live.staticflickr.com/8894/28673321783_b9c1cc728f_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KFLgAX)
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Haven't fallen off yet...
Please don't!
I enjoy your mountain photos a lot, especially as I'm unlikely to be able to get into real mountains any more, alas.
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Please don't!
I enjoy your mountain photos a lot, especially as I'm unlikely to be able to get into real mountains any more, alas.
That's definitely a goal of mine so I'll do my best not to. :)
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Baghdad
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In 2013 I walked the entire 215-mile John Muir Trail in the High Sierra. I set aside extra time for 17 peaks to bag along the way; weather permitted me only 11 of them.
Here I am losing my balance during a tripod selfie on the summit of one of the peaks: the Painted Lady, a prominent and colorful outcropping directly above the Rae Lakes. Note the sunglasses, which I stepped on early in my walk and then had to repeatedly duct-tape back together for 3+ weeks.
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Yosemite Institute back when I shot film.