Thu Dec 16 08:54:22 CST 2010 David J Brooks wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Bruce Walker <bruce.walker at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Larry, practice and use this technique ... > > > > http://www.speedlighter.ca/2010/12/13/party-recipe/ > > Did Frank write rule #4: # Tilt whenever you like. >
In my workshops "Photography And Dancers", - I have a few slides where I encourage creativity in composition, including the camera position (shooting from below, from above, camera tilt, etc.), but make a big point of keeping it reasonable (to my taste, of course ;-) ). This latter point is illustrated in this slide: http://komkon.org/~igor/PHOTOS/misc/PhotographyAndDancers-2010-11-20.jpg What you see here is a photo and a screenshot of a small portion of the gallery thumbnails. These photos (any many more in the same style) - were taken by a hired photographer at one of the recent national swing dance events. I was surprised to see probably half of many 100s of photos with a consistent tilt... Moreover, I saw the same tilt in several galleries from other dance events by the same photographer. On the original subject: Larry, yes, as many others pointed out, that happens often. I usually don't monkey around much with other people's camera settings (DSLR or P&S), except that sometimes I set the forced flash (for fill-in), e.g. in a bright day-light, - as Jaume pointed out. ... and I always make sure I change the setting back to the "default", when I am done. I think that my contribution with the other person's camera I can make is in the composition. And I am sure that the way you will compose the shot will be above the composition skills of an average(!) P&S shooter. Take a few shots to make sure nobody blinked, especially when it is done with a flash. Igor -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
