Dave, I too noticed the deer tree stands last year. Of course you could always consider getting logger equipment to hike up the really big trees we have here in the Pacific Northwest.
I have seen people ontop of railway signal bridges shooting before. This is not recommended and a good way to get arrested, although I bet the photos are nice. Not worth it. As far as anglefinders, why bother. In a few years, digital technology will be so greatly improved that you will have your digital camera mounted on a mounted electronic tripod that clips to your car top. You use your mouse and your portable laptop computer to adjust angles, zoom, rotation from the comfort of your car. Just point and click...and the image is posted on the internet for everyone to download. OK, flame away... Jeff On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, David R. Busse wrote: > Couple of things re: getting some elevation. I too, carry a ladder often > and use it. Sometimes (like on photo lines at fan trip photo runbys) a > 3-foot loop ladder is all you need to lift your camera a few feet over > the crowd of people, in case you didn't get there lickety-split for the > "best" location. > > Check out the Cabela's fall catalog...there are three pages of tree > stands for deer hunters and even a collapsible free-standing 12-foot > stand. Might there be some rail photography tools here we've never > thought about? > > Look in your local yellow pages. Do the rent-all places in your area > rent cherry-pickers, manlifts or anything like that? A days' rental > would be a lot cheaper than buying the equipment. > > Finally, I know Canon and Nikon make small angle finders for their 35mm > cameras. Does anybody know if a small video camera could be mounted on > one of these? Then, you could hoist your camera aloft in whatever kind > of lift you could rig up, look thru a TV monitor on the ground and > compose accordingly. > > I wish there were something about this topic that could flame the > passion and get people to spew out ideas like the Canon vs. Nikon issue > or Kodak vs. Fuji, because this is something I really want to find > out more about! > > --Dave Busse > --> SPORRS: Serious Photographers of Railroad Related Subjects > --> SPORRS: Serious Photographers of Railroad Related Subjects X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 1312
