Agreed. DIY is the best solution. I've had perhaps half a dozen cover pix published as well as others in books and calendars.
That's not the point though. The point was about the anaesthetic nature of pictures taken from an angle or point of view which somehow reduces the nature of the subject. The Skies Call books were done pre-photoshop so the opportunity to disappear camera support rigs was limited. However the excitement of the pictures and the obvious fun that the participants were having was enough to (almost) make me take up the sport. There are plenty of other good and bad examples. EG, surfboard mounted camera shots compared with the immortal stuff produced by George Greenough. Can you say that about wing mounted camera shots? Actually, more boring than a wing mounted camera, is a tailplane mounted camera and even more boring that that, a video of same. D On 17/09/2012, tom claffey <[email protected]> wrote: > Problem solved, send in some of yours! ;) > Tom > > > > ________________________________ > From: DMcD <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, 17 September 2012 10:02 AM > Subject: [Aus-soaring] Groan… > > Oh no! The September issue of Rigid Wing Gliding Australia has another > pic taken with a camera stuck on a wing. > > Am I the only one who finds this sort of picture dull and > unimaginative? Admittedly, it is slightly less dull than having to > endure a video of the same thing. Especially where the perpetrator has > forgotten that you can edit out the boring bits… though I guess that > would effectively delete the entire video. > > Maybe this shot was used because all the others done in the same > session had already been used? Maybe it was used because the Vulcan > bomber area of white wing was useful to strip in the Uvalde pic? > > In most areas of (sport) photography, the idea is to get an image > which is new and shows a fresh aspect of the subject. Somehow we seem > to be stuck in this rut where gluing a camera to a wing is considered > amazing. > > The "Skies Call" books must have been released in the late '70s and > set the benchmark for outstanding aerial photography. Somehow most > gliding pix fail to come close to this standard. If gliding is more > interesting than photographing it, fine… lets go back to a plain > roneographed mag… otherwise, let's up the standard! > > D > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
