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04/25/2003 09:09:49 AM · #1 |
To get a good photograph ?
For this one (click for larger)
I talked my way up onto the top of a tractor - you can see the driver if you look carefully...
Message edited by author 2003-04-25 09:10:41. |
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04/27/2003 03:14:22 AM · #2 |
Gordon, that is a good one. Who was taking YOUR picture. I like the tree shot too, but that angle, it just looks like greens growing.
I've found that I often have power just by saying, "Excuse me, but I'm a photographer, and I would appreciate it if I could....." Most folks look at me in awe and let me past. Of course, I haven't tried any military installations yet!
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04/27/2003 03:47:33 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by dsidwell:
Gordon, that is a good one. Who was taking YOUR picture. I like the tree shot too, but that angle, it just looks like greens growing.
I've found that I often have power just by saying, "Excuse me, but I'm a photographer, and I would appreciate it if I could....." Most folks look at me in awe and let me past. Of course, I haven't tried any military installations yet! |
I think that line only works if you are carrying a big DSLR or similar in size around. I don't think it will work well with a compact one though!! :) |
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04/27/2003 07:57:51 AM · #4 |
| That is one beautiful photo. I've never went to those lengths for a photo at least not yet. But I am sure I have come close to doing a few silly things but not that at least not yet. I've laid down in the mud to be able to get a ground level photo but that is my extreme so far. |
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04/27/2003 08:27:19 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by zerocusa:
Originally posted by dsidwell:
I've found that I often have power just by saying, "Excuse me, but I'm a photographer, and I would appreciate it if I could....." Most folks look at me in awe and let me past. Of course, I haven't tried any military installations yet! |
I think that line only works if you are carrying a big DSLR or similar in size around. I don't think it will work well with a compact one though!! :) |
Try carrying around a tripod. You'd be amazed how many people ask if you are a "professional". Even if you have a compact camera on it. :)
As for the lengths I've gone to for a photo- my current best effort was standing in the rain for 2 hours waiting for the "perfect" shot. It never came, but I did give a solid effort.
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04/27/2003 11:39:25 AM · #6 |
| A professional that came to talk to our class a few months ago wanted to take a picture of the Sky Dome in Toronto when it was being built. Now if you've ever seen Toronto, you'd know that the CN Tower is right beside the sky dome. Well this guy talked his way up to the very top of the tower (the part that isn't contained by ropes,etc.. nobody's really allowed up there except the repairmen). He got one of the repairmen to hang on to his ankles while he hung over the end of the tower and got a downward view of the sky dome. Scary!! |
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04/27/2003 11:46:21 AM · #7 |
Having a fear of heights, i wouldn't stand on top of a tractor for love or money. Yesterday i ruined my favorite, Elvis Presley (blue suede), shoes on a shoot; don't know what i stepped into but those shoes seemed to have gotten an acid bath.
I am pretty good at cajoling people in letting me make pictures. I am pretty much a loner but with a camera i always have an exhilirating street life with lots of fun encounters. |
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04/27/2003 12:29:28 PM · #8 |
I've actually got a couple that I did for DPChallenges.
First, for the Reflection challenge, I talked my way into a police station to take a shot of a Police truck window that reflected the razor wire around their compound. I had to wait around while they made umpteen phone calls to get permission for me to take photos inside the Police area. Then the Police photographer walked me around and talked about all of the crime scenes and dead bodies he had shot.
Second, I climbed up a 30 foot old rusty ladder to the top of a dilapadated concrete building to take a shot OVER another building of a bridge for the Bridges Challenge. When I got to the top, it was blowing so hard that I was scared to death that I was going to lose the camera. This ladder was hanging on to the building by a few rusty bolts. When I got down I looked up and wondered what in the heck I was doing!!
The worst part is that I never entered either of the photos for the challenges, using something else that I shot that week instead!
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04/27/2003 12:33:45 PM · #9 |
For this image, I strapped my tripod to the pillion of my motorcycle, then tripped the shutter on a timer and took off down the road. Still shudder to think what could have happened to my camera.
Link to PBase gallery
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04/27/2003 02:47:43 PM · #10 |
| Ask yourself, "is it worth it?" I have never went any extreme just for a picture. A pro dangling over a cliff with a 600mm lens on his camera taking pictures of eagles is one thing for a rank novice to do so is nuts. Also not all risks seem dangerous at the time. Blundering into thickets, rock piles, fallen trees, etc can be just as dangerous. You run the risk of poisonous snakes, spiders, bees, plus there is poison ivy, poison oak, and other dangers. If you do take a risk, study the situation and have a way out as well as in |
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04/27/2003 05:28:25 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by irae:
For this image, I strapped my tripod to the pillion of my motorcycle, then tripped the shutter on a timer and took off down the road. Still shudder to think what could have happened to my camera.
Link to PBase gallery |
Tsk, tsk, tsk... riding without a helmet!
I haven't done anything really dangerous yet, but for the transportation challenge this week I have had to wander into a few places that I've worried someone might stop me. I camped out on an overpass for about 10 minutes holding my camera over the edge. With all the homeland security nervousness, I was afraid someone might think I was planning to do something bad. |
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04/27/2003 08:57:05 PM · #12 |
For the motion challenge I ask a stranger at the gym to run on the tredmill so I could take a pic of his feet. He looked at me kinda weird. But after explaining myself , he was more than happy to help me out!
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04/27/2003 09:33:38 PM · #13 |
| For me it was trying to shoot my entry for the "Stranger in a Strange Land" challenge. (sorry, don`t know how to include the pic here) I was thinking of creating a shot worthy of the cover of a science fiction book. It was to show a "stranger" confronted with a place so strange and bizzare, with mysterious walls and evil powers and forces so strong, that the only thing left was to helplessly fall to the knees and reach up in a desperate cry for help... The site: The local indoor miniature putt-putt. One of the holes has a "cave" I thought to use as the "strange land"... The Stranger: Me! Draped in black material from head to toe, on my knees reaching up to the evil forces behind the mystery doors. The Silly Part: There are people on the golf course playing through! My camera is on the tri-pod over there, and I am using a small remote control to trigger the shots from over here, and as soon as I triger the shot I drop the remote and pose in this rediculous position until the camera shoots. Well, It is impossible to hide completly and there are now people watching. I am still a beginner at this photography stuff, so I had to take a zillion shots to get the lights just right and all that stuff. I took a shot and then "disrobed" to go to the camera to see what I got. I then made camera adjustments and re-robed and assumed the position again, over and over and over...I took over 150 shots! And soon enough there were far too many people that saw what I was doing, without a clue what I was doing. I got to a point to where I just didn`t care anymore what people wondered. I knew I was doing something necessary and important. I knew I would be a better and stronger person for suffering such humiliation. Well, the end result, I entered my final result, and suffered the blow of so many people voting without having the slightest clue what I was doing... :) And now I am a much better photographer for it... I will never read science fiction again! I promise... |
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04/27/2003 09:36:03 PM · #14 |
| clicker -- you might have framed the shot, and asked one of the crowd to "click" the remote after you were covered up... |
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04/27/2003 09:40:02 PM · #15 |
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Message edited by author 2003-04-27 22:01:11. |
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04/27/2003 10:01:29 PM · #16 |
clicker -- I am actually quite impressed, and was just trying to give you a good-natured "hard time" and am sorry if it came across as anything else...
Most of my photographic stupidity involves traffic, either taking pictures while driving, or standing in the street or median when (I hope) there's not cars coming.
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04/27/2003 10:03:24 PM · #17 |
wish I still had the photo, but for my first challenge here, "Garbage", I climbed into the dumpster and took a shot from the trashes eye view looking out of the door at someone throwing in trash... nasty!
Message edited by author 2003-04-27 22:03:45.
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04/27/2003 10:05:26 PM · #18 |
| Why would you have trashed the original? |
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04/27/2003 10:37:07 PM · #19 |
The silliest thing I've ever done was trying to take a picture of my mother riding bike. It took a lot of patience and skill trying to hold the camera, stay balanced, stay on the bike trail, AND keep the same speed as the subject!
Here's the result: Bike Ride |
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