would you ever throw your camera up in the air??

[jann1033]

i got an email about this yesterday. they said set a long exposure and throw your camera up in the air to see what turns out..

1) no way am i tossing my camera anywhere

2)what do you think of this brand of photography? it said so you don't have as much control but isn't that kind of the purpose, how you use the equipment etc? you truthfully could have a monkey throw your camera in the air and get the same results.... i don't really understand this or the shoot from your hip with out looking in the view finder..what is the sense of that?...I didn't read the article cause it just seemed so stupid to me so maybe there was something valid about it buttruthfully it kind of annoys me, like they are trying so hard to be "creative" that it just seems kind of stupid i'm not talking about experimenting with new things as much as just kind of going overboard...it reminds me of kids who have to dress like "individuals" which means differently than parents but look exactly like all their friends..which is really just part of growing up but isn't so funny in an adult who should be grown up..maybe i am just getting more conservative in my twilight years

 

[barrie]

Jann - I saw that too, on Photojojo, and thought the same thing you did - how stupid! I took me 2 years to save up the money for my camera. No way am I going to toss it into the air so I can have photos that look like they should have been deleted to begin with.

Of course, I feel pretty much the same way when I go through the modern art section of the museum. But obviously somebody is paying big money for that stuff - just not my taste I guess.

 

[DVC Jen]

I haven't seen the article - but I have to agree with you - seems kinda silly. And - if the camera breaks - silly leaning to the side of stupid.

About all that modern art and or abstract stuff. I just don't get it. It makes me wonder - am I missing out on something - or is this stuff just really strange?

 

[MICKEY88]

that is insane, although I can see some advantage to being able to shoot from the hip,

imagine being at WDW, you are sitting eating with your camera on the table, all of a sudden some majorly newsworthy event erupts before you, the ability to shoot at least semi-accurately as you move the camera from table to eye level, could make the difference in getting that one in a million shot or not getting it....

also I highly recommend occasionally taking pics with the camera held above your head, just incase you are ever in a situation where there is a crowd and the only way to get the shot, is to hold the camera as high as possible and shoot over the crowd.

that is one thing I miss about my Minolta A2... a tiltable screen that allowed viewing while taking this type of pic.

 

[jann1033]

that is insane, although I can see some advantage to being able to shoot from the hip,

imagine being at WDW, you are sitting eating with your camera on the table, all of a sudden some majorly newsworthy event erupts before you, the ability to shoot at least semi-accurately as you move the camera from table to eye level, could make the difference in getting that one in a million shot or not getting it....

also I highly recommend occasionally taking pics with the camera held above your head, just incase you are ever in a situation where there is a crowd and the only way to get the shot, is to hold the camera as high as possible and shoot over the crowd.

that is one thing I miss about my Minolta A2... a tiltable screen that allowed viewing while taking this type of pic.

ok that sounds reasonable. although the article i read about the shoot from the hip was supposed to be " using viewfinder= lack of creativity" , i can see the benefit of being able to know what your camera would take without having to look through the eyepiece

 

[MICKEY88]

ok that sounds reasonable. although the article i read about the shoot from the hip was supposed to be " using viewfinder= lack of creativity" ,

what the heck, with that train of thought, be really creative....
hand your camera to someone else and ask them to take a random picture for you...LOL

 

[DisneyGirl4188]

what the heck, with that train of thought, be really creative....
hand your camera to someone else and ask them to take a random picture for you...LOL

 

[AbbysFamily]

Throwing the camera? Foolish!
Shooting from the hip? Useful!!!

I have found that knowing your camera well enough to be able to shoot without looking through the viewfinder can be quite great.

Not because of a creativity, but because you can catch people more 'off guard' and natural. The minute you put a viewfinder to your eye, they often change or stop. But if you can shoot without looking, you'd be amazed what you can catch!

 

[MICKEY88]

Throwing the camera? Foolish!
Shooting from the hip? Useful!!!

I have found that knowing your camera well enough to be able to shoot without looking through the viewfinder can be quite great.

Not because of a creativity, but because you can catch people more 'off guard' and natural. The minute you put a viewfinder to your eye, they often change or stop. But if you can shoot without looking, you'd be amazed what you can catch!

that is a great way to get candids of small children...

 

[jann1033]

what the heck, with that train of thought, be really creative....
hand your camera to someone else and ask them to take a random picture for you...LOL

i did try the "uncreative" shoot from the hip today and it was aimed a little higher than i thought but other wise not bad.
i'll have to practice that.. i just held the shutter till it stopped focusing and they looked like it was focused .

 

[Master Mason]

what the heck, with that train of thought, be really creative....
hand your camera to someone else and ask them to take a random picture for you...LOL

Actually this idea can be kind of cool. I was at a wedding and they had disposible cameras on every table. They told every that they had to take at least 3 pictures with the camera before they left.

They got some great candids of people enjoying their wedding that would otherwise never have been captured. The couple actually had more fun looking at the candids than they did of the posed professional pictures, because they got to see their friends and family having fun.

 

[jann1033]

Actually this idea can be kind of cool. I was at a wedding and they had disposible cameras on every table. They told every that they had to take at least 3 pictures with the camera before they left.

They got some great candids of people enjoying their wedding that would otherwise never have been captured. The couple actually had more fun looking at the candids than they did of the posed professional pictures, because they got to see their friends and family having fun.

i've been to weddings where they did that also and it's nice to see what everyone else thought was important

 

[MICKEY88]

Actually this idea can be kind of cool. I was at a wedding and they had disposible cameras on every table. They told every that they had to take at least 3 pictures with the camera before they left.

They got some great candids of people enjoying their wedding that would otherwise never have been captured. The couple actually had more fun looking at the candids than they did of the posed professional pictures, because they got to see their friends and family having fun.

a disposable..sure, but my real gear handed over to a stranger..??

that would have to be some really extenuating circumstances...

hm maybe a few years ago at the Disney Shareholders meeting when I had the honor of meeting Tim Hauser...I probably would have handed my camera to a stranger to take that picture for me..


or maybe if I had the opportunity to have my picture taken surrounded by the Pussycat Dolls...

oh wait Last February I did actually hand my camera to my sister to take my picture with Mickey as the Sorcerers Apprentice at MGM, but that was My Minolta A2, not my DSLR...

 

[Master Mason]

I have handed my camera to strangers and had them take pictures of the 'group' of us. That's usually the only way I am ever in a picture...

well except for the ocastional day the wife says she is carrying the camera...

 

[Groucho]

We still have four unused "wedding" disposable cameras sitting in a box along with my unused film... I think they went missing before the ceremony, were since found, and there's no way I'd use one for much of anything other than a wedding!

We did have a little Polaroid sticker camera - we actually ended up with a couple of them - it takes a picture then spits out a little (under 2" square, I think) sticker. We had people take put pictures of themselves next to the guest book at the reception. It worked pretty well! But again, we're not talking great technical quality...!

 

[Cyrano]

Canon, Nikon, Olympus and co must love this style of photography

 

[DebºoºS]

Sounds like a scene from "*******". I would certainly feel like one if I did it

 

[Lachesis00]

I think the disposable cameras at a wedding are a great idea. Had it not been for those at our wedding and people just taking photos, well it would have been a disaster. The pro photographer did less then a steller job

 

[jann1033]

I think the disposable cameras at a wedding are a great idea. Had it not been for those at our wedding and people just taking photos, well it would have been a disaster. The pro photographer did less then a steller job

same with my daughter's... it's probably one of the few weddings in history that have no photos of the bride's family-who paid the guy but he always had something "else" to take when we asked...but tons of the groom's...ie sister and groom, parents and groom, grooms car and groom, every uncle, cousin and distant relative they could dig up and who paid for nada....at least we have a few from stepfather who took photos of us..

course daughter is divorced now anyway so i guess the whole thing is a wash