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11/13/2003 11:33:56 AM · #1 |
I was wondering about some of the stranger things you've done to capture an image, whether it's a weird position like standing on your head or whether it's sneaking into a place you shouldn't be...
Thought this might be a fun discussion.
Once I knew I was meeting a guy who was on the X-Files, so I made up a funny sign for him to hold and finally convinced him to let me take his picture while he was holding the sign. I don't think he would have let me photograph him unless I had something strange to catch his attention... Anyway it worked, I'll have to dig it up and post it here.
Not that strange, but I'm still a newbie at photography.
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11/13/2003 11:39:34 AM · #2 |
this is probablly not as weird as others, but I put my camera on the tripod, set the focus and the self timer and held tripod up as high as I could to get a "birds eye view" of my subject.
also i have come to a screatching halt on a highway to get a photo, thankfully no other cars were around...
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11/13/2003 02:56:55 PM · #3 |
I've posted this before, but I once talked my way up onto the roof of a tractor : you can see the driver looking confused inside the cab...
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11/13/2003 03:45:37 PM · #4 |
This afternoon/evening I was at a soccer game, taking photos, which the parents had been used to seeing me do. But the sky was incredibly interesting - I took over 100 shots of it and only like 10 of the soccer game. And I was the last one to leave by about 20-30 minutes. Tame by a photographer's standard, I know, but the folks at the game thought I was a nut. (It was worth it.)
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11/13/2003 04:03:13 PM · #5 |
Hmmm........Well I've done several interesting things when I was much younger in pursuit of a photo, some of them were questionable legally.
Climbed over a barbed wire fence and up onto the top of a water tower in the Hollywood Hills to get a good panoramic view of Los Angeles.
Climbed up a cliff under cover of darkness to get a night shot of a refinery.
Climbed onto the roof of a 3 story building to shoot the street scenes from above. This was also done under cover of darkness and without ropes, ladders or fire escape.
I was accosted by a security guard while shooting a boron processing facility. (from a public road no less) He asked (in a not so nice manner) for my film. I managed to switch my film with another roll that was blank, so I still got my shots.
A couple of my friends and I decided to take our cameras and drive around Los Angeles all night, looking for pictures. We got chased away from the Mormon Temple, discovered a 24hour restaraunt across from the flower market, then went to the flower market when it opened at 3am. We walked up and down Hollywood Blvd. chatting with the locals (very interesting folks). We wound up at the Santa Anita racetrack taking pictures of horses warming up. Ran through 9 or 10 rolls of Kodachrome 64.
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11/13/2003 04:23:42 PM · #6 |
That sounds like a fun adventure.
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11/13/2003 06:16:31 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
Hmmm........
I was accosted by a security guard while shooting a boron processing facility. (from a public road no less) He asked (in a not so nice manner) for my film. I managed to switch my film with another roll that was blank, so I still got my shots... |
That reminds me of the SAC base I photographed because of the mountains in the background. Two jeeps with SP's carrying M-16's sped out to get me to stop. They were inside the wire, I was 1 mile from the interstate, so I got to keep my pictures.
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11/13/2003 08:01:08 PM · #8 |
| A couple of weeks ago, during the fire storms here in San Diego, I was driving down the I-5 at lunch. Just before the exit I was getting off at, traffic stopped. A brush fire had started about a half mile before the exit. There were already about half a dozen units responded and fighting it, and they were letting traffic through. When I got to the burning area, I had my camera out and tried to sureptitiously get some shots of the fire. Unfortunately I wasn't bold enough (probably better for everyone's safety), and all I got was blurry smoke. |
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11/13/2003 08:08:00 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
I was accosted by a security guard while shooting a boron processing facility. (from a public road no less) He asked (in a not so nice manner) for my film. I managed to switch my film with another roll that was blank, so I still got my shots... |
I remember someone else saying they carried around some old blank film for just such occasions.
With a digital camera, you can even reach in your beg and give them a roll of film without opening your camera.
I'd like to have some with frames pre-exposed to read
This film illegally seized in violation of the 1st and 4th Ammendments to the US Constitution |
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11/13/2003 08:18:13 PM · #10 |
*laugh* Some frames pre exposed with that on would be hillarious, even if you didn't get to see the results.
In Thailand, and doubtless other places, they have clear signs in some places telling you you are not allowed to take photos of certain religous articles. I very much respect that and get angry when I see people ignore it.
The signs are obvious, 9/10 times it is people trying to sneak a photo.For instance in the main palace you can take all the photos you want, but not of the Emerald Buddah (I think it is).
If you are caught they are actually, imho, quite reasonable about it, considering the warnings. They open up the back of your camera and pull out and expose the film, then hand you back the camera. Tough if you've lost the rest of the pics, you were warned.
What I find quite amusing is that to drive the point hime they even has a little stand outside where they hang the exposed film, sort of like cannibals having heads on sticks ;)
I wonder with a digital camera if they would let you just delete the relevant pics (though I state again I have no sympathy for anyone who deliberately ignores a request of this type).
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11/13/2003 08:24:43 PM · #11 |
| I think they should confiscate the memory card, drill a hole in it, and sell them as souvenir earrings. |
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11/13/2003 08:26:07 PM · #12 |
And that General is one of the many reasons you are not a fashion advisor ;)
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11/13/2003 08:47:34 PM · #13 |
I have in fact studied costume design, and know how to sew with both a hand needle and machine.
Of course, around this part of the country they wouldn't bother with drilling the hole or tracking down the earring hardware -- they'd just staple it on.
I took this from the lobby of the KPIX-5 studios in San Francisco this Summer. The sign said No Photography, but I was prepared to tell them convincingly that I thought they meant INSIDE the studio itself ...
Bay Bridge and Ferry
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11/13/2003 08:59:06 PM · #14 |
I was almost arrested this past week, there is an abandoned fire tower not far from my home, I had visited this quite often as a teen ager :), I wanted to get a gorgeous serene shot for my sacred places challenge. I went out there at night, (because it overlooks the city), was in the process of climbing this thing when the police pulled up and asked me what I thought I was doing. Now I am probably on their list of looneys, they were puzzled and did not act like they believed me until they saw the camera and the tripod on my back. I did not get the shot. :( lol
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11/13/2003 09:02:43 PM · #15 |
I also take a lot of photos while on
The Long Drive Home
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11/13/2003 10:01:26 PM · #16 |
| I had to climb three rungs up the chain of command to convince the security guards to let me take my tripod into a high school football game last weekend. And then I didn't use it, LOL. |
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11/13/2003 10:32:43 PM · #17 |
Lets see here...
During the blackout this summer in NYC, I was working for the NY Post. I was out shooting the throngs of people in Times Square but I couldn't figure out how to get higher then them to shoot the photo, then I saw the rounded top of a garbage can. I was wearing high heeled sandals, and a skirt because it was kind of my interview day. I told the guy I was with to keep an eye on my bag and shoes, and I climbed up barefooted onto the garbage can and started shooting a way. Not sure how many people got a good look up my skirt, hehehe, but I got some interesting photos (and the job!)
I went to National Journalism competitions in high school. When I was there, I heard someone mention that PAIN pics of football players were some of the best pictures. I was back at my highschool, during a big football game, and one of our players went down. I promptly rushed on to the field (with a flash) and started shooting the downed player. It was the first time I was truly called by my last name, as the coach went "Arbisser get off the field!" When I got off I was swamped by angry football players admonishing me for doing that, including one of the captains (who I'd had a crush on for four years) OOPS! Plus they wouldn't use the "PAIN" photo in the paper... hehehe learned my lesson there.
There are SO many more, I just can't think of them right now, I've done a lot of crazy things... from lying on the ground directly under two sweaty wrestlers (the ground was wet) to hanging over a railing with my feet on the edge with someone just holding me by my sweater... 4 stories up! I'm a nut what can I say
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11/13/2003 10:41:23 PM · #18 |
| I was seeing my daughter off for a year in London. As I photographed her plane leaving the gate it backed right into another plane also backing up. Considerable damage was done to both planes and I had the whole thing on my digital. The "authorities" asked me to give them the card but in the end settled for me emailing them the pictures in sequence. |
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11/14/2003 01:14:17 AM · #19 |
I wasn't actually holding my camera to take these pics, but I duct taped my beloved Nikon F3, a borrowed 14mm lens and a rented intervalometer to an open wheel race car once for a couple of practice laps. None of this equipment could I have ever replaced had it been damaged. Great shots. Nearly puked from worry.
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