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09/03/2012 06:39:51 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music: Friendly strangers used my 5D to snap this shot of PennyClick and me :-)
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Yeah, you couldn't have done that. You should have let them keep the camera. |
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09/03/2012 06:49:30 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by raish: Originally posted by Bear_Music: Friendly strangers used my 5D to snap this shot of PennyClick and me :-)
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Yeah, you couldn't have done that. You should have let them keep the camera. |
It was a stealth photographer. There are a few of those scattered around in national parks and other tourist places. They know all about every camera ever made, and have amazing talent and intuition about framing the perfect shot.
Nice photo of you two. Congrats on having a real "keeper" of a shot to remember your trip. |
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09/03/2012 07:27:27 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by Cory: Originally posted by hahn23: You guys let others touch your cameras and lenses? :-)
In the National Park, I am constantly asked to take photos of a couple or a group. Most of the time I comply, but not always. It depends on whether the light conditions will allow an acceptable photo result. People are sometimes surprised when I move and rearrange and reorient the people in the scene. |
Tourist: Hi, that's a nice camera, will you please use our camera to take our picture?
Richard: No, the light isn't any good.
Tourist: Blank stare. |
+1 Well said. That's happened to me dozens of times. LOL!!!! |
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09/03/2012 07:43:47 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb: That's hilarious!
I have sort of a different issue.......every time I'm somewhere there are people with cameras, they just assume that because I have this big, clunky DSLR that I'll know how to use their weird little mysterious boxes.
Live view gives me horrible vertigo, I have trouble even knowing where the shutter button is, and honestly........more than half the time, I can't tell whether the damn things have taken the picture!
I have a few times where we've asked for help, and half the time, people get the deer-in-the-headlights look when they see the camera we have.
Funny stuff! |
Yeah, I recently sold the ol' Powershot and *almost* had to dig out the manual to remind myself how to do basic stuff like zoom-in/zoom-out...and yeah I love how freaked out people get when they're asked to take a pic with a dslr! Most stare helplessly at the LCD on the back and have to be shown where the viewfinder is. Then they go 'OMG it's soooo heavy!!!' Which is why I always make sure any strangers have the neckstrap around their necks and not hanging uselessly down around their wrists.
And that's with Nikon gear. Gawd ferbid you gave them a 5D with the L series 70-200 up :-0 |
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09/03/2012 08:47:54 PM · #30 |
Originally posted by hahn23: Originally posted by Cory: Originally posted by hahn23: You guys let others touch your cameras and lenses? :-)
In the National Park, I am constantly asked to take photos of a couple or a group. Most of the time I comply, but not always. It depends on whether the light conditions will allow an acceptable photo result. People are sometimes surprised when I move and rearrange and reorient the people in the scene. |
Tourist: Hi, that's a nice camera, will you please use our camera to take our picture?
Richard: No, the light isn't any good.
Tourist: Blank stare. |
+1 Well said. That's happened to me dozens of times. LOL!!!! |
Meh. They don't care. They're not DPCers who pixel peep to the nth degree. They just want something that reminds them of being there.
For reference, see Facebook vs. DPC.
Message edited by author 2012-09-03 20:48:05. |
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09/03/2012 09:37:51 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by levyj413: Originally posted by hahn23: Originally posted by Cory: Originally posted by hahn23: You guys let others touch your cameras and lenses? :-)
In the National Park, I am constantly asked to take photos of a couple or a group. Most of the time I comply, but not always. It depends on whether the light conditions will allow an acceptable photo result. People are sometimes surprised when I move and rearrange and reorient the people in the scene. |
Tourist: Hi, that's a nice camera, will you please use our camera to take our picture?
Richard: No, the light isn't any good.
Tourist: Blank stare. |
+1 Well said. That's happened to me dozens of times. LOL!!!! |
Meh. They don't care. They're not DPCers who pixel peep to the nth degree. They just want something that reminds them of being there.
For reference, see Facebook vs. DPC. |
True statement, you bunch of socially awkward penguins. |
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09/03/2012 11:09:11 PM · #32 |
OK I have a plan for those who are lucky enough to go on vacation to a spot where picture taking for memories is a must--get a pocket camera before you leave. Most of the pocket cameras have face recognition and smile detection. You can set it up to recognize & highlight your face. If it has smile detection it will take the shot when you smile. And let us not forget auto-focus & steady-shot. Just put it in their hand the right way & point out the shutter release button. Then you don't have to hand your big camera over to someone who doesn't know what a viewfinder is but might have an inflated idea of the resale value. "D |
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09/03/2012 11:18:36 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by Melethia: When someone asks if I want a picture with me in it, I just smile and say "No, I already know what I look like, thanks!"
I'm the one who always has the camera, so I'm never in 'em. There's method to my madness... |
+1 But seriously you could make some $$ if you charged $5 a shot to those who ask you to take their picture in front of blah blah blah... |
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09/03/2012 11:37:52 PM · #34 |
Originally posted by hahn23: In the National Park, I am constantly asked to take photos of a couple or a group. Most of the time I comply, but not always. It depends on whether the light conditions will allow an acceptable photo result. People are sometimes surprised when I move and rearrange and reorient the people in the scene. |
Having said they don't care in an earlier post, I do agree that if they're backlit, I'll ask how to force the flash, but if they don't know, I'll still take it. I'll also compose to put them in one corner while I put the landscape feature in another.
But I don't go beyond that.
Message edited by author 2012-09-03 23:38:37. |
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09/04/2012 02:36:06 AM · #35 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music: Friendly strangers used my 5D to snap this shot of PennyClick and me :-)
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Yeah but!, Taking nickyb along doesn't count though ;) hehe
I'll sometimes say, here I'll take it with my camera what's your email rather than using an iPhone etc so much easier
Message edited by author 2012-09-04 02:37:49. |
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09/04/2012 06:47:44 AM · #36 |
Originally posted by Giles_uk:
I'll sometimes say, here I'll take it with my camera what's your email rather than using an iPhone etc so much easier |
i though about doing that and giving out my business card, but i left my wallet in my room most of the time with my cards in it. |
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09/04/2012 06:54:59 AM · #37 |
I just hand that friendly stranger my iPhone or my wife's P&S when they shoot a shot of my family. It works fine and for what it is intended, the quality is usually pretty good. But the composition of that photo that the stranger takes is a completely other thing... |
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09/04/2012 07:36:05 AM · #38 |
Originally posted by Cory: Originally posted by hahn23: You guys let others touch your cameras and lenses? :-)
In the National Park, I am constantly asked to take photos of a couple or a group. Most of the time I comply, but not always. It depends on whether the light conditions will allow an acceptable photo result. People are sometimes surprised when I move and rearrange and reorient the people in the scene. |
Tourist: Hi, that's a nice camera, will you please use our camera to take our picture?
Richard: No, the light isn't any good.
Tourist: Blank stare. |
I'm glad I had put down the coffee mug before I read that! Genius... |
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09/04/2012 08:12:02 AM · #39 |
yes i can pretty much attest to those things too... lol i feel for us camera geeks ;O) trouble is these days anyone with a camera can get a good picture if they only take time out to learn but most rely heavily on the face detection built into even dslr's now and throw them off easily by just changing a dial setting... lol ;O) i at least educate my friends on the basics of composition :O) |
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09/04/2012 08:55:59 AM · #40 |
35mm @ f/8 on manual with fill flash should simulate a disposable camera just fine.
But no one touches my gears except for me and the wife, who also works with me. I can't even imagine a stranger handling my gear! |
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09/04/2012 09:29:46 AM · #41 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music: Friendly strangers used my 5D to snap this shot of PennyClick and me :-)
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This is a great shot. Knowing Bear, he had this set up perfectly and all that needed to come along was someone reasonably steady to act like a human tripod.
So its probably a combination of setting the thing up perfectly, and being the judge of a steady hand.
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09/04/2012 03:39:44 PM · #42 |
Originally posted by blindjustice: Originally posted by Bear_Music: Friendly strangers used my 5D to snap this shot of PennyClick and me :-)
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This is a great shot. Knowing Bear, he had this set up perfectly and all that needed to come along was someone reasonably steady to act like a human tripod.
So its probably a combination of setting the thing up perfectly, and being the judge of a steady hand. |
Thanks, and that's pretty close to what happened, Paul. Robert had offered to take a picture of two women who were photographing each other and set them up in this spot for a shot. They offered to reciprocate. I sat down, Robert focused his camera (he uses the separate rear focus button), handed it to one of the women and joined me for this shot. It's one of my favorites!
In terms of "the light" I've seen Robert get people to move to a quite different spot than the one they were in after they agree they would like him to take a picture of them. He'll just say something like "the light will be much better over there". They don't seem to mind.
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09/04/2012 04:49:02 PM · #43 |
Originally posted by PennyClick: In terms of "the light" I've seen Robert get people to move to a quite different spot than the one they were in after they agree they would like him to take a picture of them. He'll just say something like "the light will be much better over there". They don't seem to mind. |
I'd be tempted to just pop up their onboard flash ... ;-) |
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09/04/2012 05:01:14 PM · #44 |
It's simple, when I go on holiday I employ the services of a professional photographer to follow us around and take stunning portraits of us!
I'm surprised you lot didn't think of that! You'll happily spend $1000 on a lens then pass it to a complete stranger, probably a bumbling buffoon, and expect studio quality shots:)) |
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