OT camera use

Posted by mm on August 26, 2008, 9:28 pm

OT

Do you remember the 60's when only professional photographers and
those with single lens reflex cameras who pretended they were like
pros would in a crowd raise the camera over their heads and shoot
without looking?

Now everyone does.

Posted by David Nebenzahl on August 26, 2008, 9:48 pm

On 8/26/2008 6:28 PM mm spake thus:

> Do you remember the 60's when only professional photographers and
> those with single lens reflex cameras who pretended they were like
> pros would in a crowd raise the camera over their heads and shoot
> without looking?

Do you remember when only crazy people walked around talking to themselves?

--
"In 1964 Barry Goldwater declared: 'Elect me president, and I
will bomb the cities of Vietnam, defoliate the jungles, herd the
population into concentration camps and turn the country into a
wasteland.' But Lyndon Johnson said: 'No! No! No! Don't you dare do
that. Let ME do it.'"

- Characterization (paraphrased) of the 1964 Goldwater/Johnson
presidential race by Professor Irwin Corey, "The World's Foremost
Authority".

Posted by aemeijers on August 26, 2008, 10:37 pm

mm wrote:

> OT
>
> Do you remember the 60's when only professional photographers and
> those with single lens reflex cameras who pretended they were like
> pros would in a crowd raise the camera over their heads and shoot
> without looking?
>
> Now everyone does.
>
>

Done it since working on yearbook in high school. Sometimes it is the
only way to get the shot. Works best with wide angle lens, obviously,
but with practice you can even do it with a short telephoto.

--
aem sends...

Posted by Flatus Johnson on August 27, 2008, 10:32 am

> mm wrote:

>> OT
>> Do you remember the 60's when only professional photographers and
>> those with single lens reflex cameras who pretended they were like
>> pros would in a crowd raise the camera over their heads and shoot
>> without looking?
>> Now everyone does.

> Done it since working on yearbook in high school. Sometimes it is the only
> way to get the shot. Works best with wide angle lens, obviously, but with
> practice you can even do it with a short telephoto.

I'm a competitive pistol shooter and sometimes go to the plinking range to
practice "hip-shooting" -i.e., holding the gun near my waist and shooting
at a target on the ground just based on pointing with my hand-- no aiming
with the sights.

I've actually gotten quite good at it-- good muscle feedback and
proprioceptive senses I guess, and can consistently hit frozen juice can
sized target at 8-10 yards. That skill generalized to pointing a camera from
over my head-- I can generally frame just what I want and hit the shutter
release....

Posted by Anthony Diodati on August 28, 2008, 12:38 am

>> mm wrote:

>>> OT
>>> Do you remember the 60's when only professional photographers and
>>> those with single lens reflex cameras who pretended they were like
>>> pros would in a crowd raise the camera over their heads and shoot
>>> without looking?
>>> Now everyone does.

>> Done it since working on yearbook in high school. Sometimes it is the
>> only way to get the shot. Works best with wide angle lens, obviously, but
>> with practice you can even do it with a short telephoto.

> I'm a competitive pistol shooter and sometimes go to the plinking range to
> practice "hip-shooting" -i.e., holding the gun near my waist and shooting
> at a target on the ground just based on pointing with my hand-- no aiming
> with the sights.
> I've actually gotten quite good at it-- good muscle feedback and
> proprioceptive senses I guess, and can consistently hit frozen juice can
> sized target at 8-10 yards. That skill generalized to pointing a camera
> from over my head-- I can generally frame just what I want and hit the
> shutter release....

Yeah, I'm on a project where we have to take pictures in the ware house of a
electric power plant, and sometimes there is no way to get behind the motors
up on the racks, so I'm getting pretty good at reaching around them and
judging where to hold the camera.
Tony

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