Whenever I go take pictures of the Hong Kong city lights, I find
myself sharing the Peak viewing gallery with lots of tourists. The
take a picture of a 600m wide harbour with the flash on their PS and
then look at *me* like I'm an idiot for not having a flash.
Sheesh!
dave
They must be the
A scroll of mail from Tiger Moses [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 13 Feb
2001 09:35:06 -0600
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The one I always like is when I vist family in another city/state and leave
around 9pm with my camera and a tripod to go take picture at night. No one
can understand how I am going to take pictures
Whenever I go take pictures of the Hong Kong city lights, I find
myself sharing the Peak viewing gallery with lots of tourists. The
take a picture of a 600m wide harbour with the flash on their PS and
then look at *me* like I'm an idiot for not having a flash.
Sheesh!
dave
Maybe you should
Over the past few months, when watching movies, I noticed that
a lot of shots, especially tight head shots and
head-and-shoulders shots, were made in such a way that a portion
of the top of the subjects' heads were cut off. The more I
looked at those shots, the more it seemed that cropping in
I find cropping into people can be great fun. :)
I never noticed that I did it until someone pointed it out to me,
actually. I just like to get nice and close to people.
For a shot that (I think) is spectacular, in part because of the crop,
check out the cover for Lyle Lovett's album The Road
Shel,
Two of the shots featured in the "portraits" section of
my site (URL below) show some of the cropping you
mention.
Doug
Quoting Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Over the past few months, when watching movies, I
noticed that
a lot of shots, especially tight head shots and
In a message dated 2/12/01 12:28:17 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How many of you head-and-shoulders shooters crop this way?
For myself? Often. For clients? Never. You must overcome your years of
training and go with your insticts when framing in an "unorthodox"
Me. You end up with upper portion of the frame broken in two, limiting the
travel of the viewers eyes at least momentarily, and the visual
interruption forces you to deal with "the face".
Dan Scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
How many of you head-and-shoulders shooters crop this way? I
was shooting
Bob Walkden wrote:
Within the last few months a complete stranger came up to me while I
was photographing into back light and told me it wouldn't work, I
should keep the sun behind me. And earlier last year while I was
photographing somebody inside a public building with my M3 another
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