Hi, After reading some of the post here, i feel that perhaps, might help some of you if i share my personal story a little.
early last year, one of the local art disability organization was having a series of 6 workshops called "short in the dark" for vision impaired and blind people on photographing. there're 12 participants that are blind and vision impaired. We all got a loan digital camera, and learning the basic of photographic, taking photos as a blind person. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Andrew Follows, one of the blind photographer that base in Melbourne Australia. After the workshops, we then, have the task of taking photos for a special exhibition, happen in the state library of South Australia, Australia. The idea of the exhibition is to exhibit about things that blind people cann and can't see, using the art of micro photograph, (close up photos). I must have took about 5000 photos or more, i think i gone thru 3 x 4gb SD Cards in the period of 6 weeks. It was odd, whenever i go, i'll have the camera with me, and a guidedog. So, often, i get people came up to me and ask me if i need help, or, some, even questioning if i took someone's camera, or lost, or, one to the extent as i'm really blind, and if i got a guidedog that is escape from someone's yard. Part of the deal is a micro photographer is to go close up with the subject/object of whatever you photographing. So, i did a lot of crazy stuff, includes laying on the floor in a quite busy footpath, trying to capture the foot prints of foot trafics when they went pass on the floor, to almost kissing the wall, trying to capture the very texture of the wall etc etc. To cut the story short, we did have an exhibition on the state library, it went for a month. 8 out of the 12 participants continued the project after the first workshop, and 8 of us do stay on the project till the end. When i did the project, i often doubting myself, and my ability as a blind person to take photos, and the quality of the photos. Soon i learn, it doesn't matter. Even if i took a photo of the garbage bin, (one of my better short) it gave a different prospective to others. When i got disappointed and discourage by the comments from the public, i know, when, i was most determine that i want to continue on the project. Now, almost 17 month has pass since we started the project, and almost 11 months pass since the project ended. We are now, talking about finding ways to fund the project, to have the second short in the dark project for more blind and vision impaired people. Although it seems weird, or, you may have get lots of weird comments about you, as a blind person taking photo, but, just remember, you are not alone.Joanne Chua Leaders For Tomorrow 2013 Candidate. On 05/06/2013, at 3:55, Robert Fenton <robert.fen...@samobile.net> wrote: > Hello: > > This discussion about taking pictures when totally blind interests me. How > does one focus the image correctly? I read somewhere that VoiceOver is > supposed to tell you when the image is centred. I have never seen that > happen. > > Thanks for your help. > > Bob Fenton > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 2013-06-04, at 2:13 PM, "Raul A. Gallegos" <r...@raulgallegos.com> wrote: > >> Hello Sieghard. yes of course. I must have been using my iPhone >> up-side-down. <grin>. Seriously, thanks for the reminder. I keep forgetting >> that sometimes jailbreak tweaks add things which one gets used to and then >> one uses them as if they had always been there. >> >> -- >> Raul A. Gallegos >> I love strawberry Quik. It's my favorite pink fluid narrowly beating out >> Pepto-Bismol. - Sheldon Cooper >> Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 >> >> On 6/4/2013 11:33 AM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: >>> Hi Raul, just a small correction, it is the volume up button that takes the >>> picture. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf >>> Of Raul A. Gallegos >>> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 8:02 AM >>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >>> Subject: Re: taking photos when blind >>> >>> Hi, one thing which helps with iPhone picture taking is pressing the volume >>> down button also simulates the shutter button. So you don't have to worry >>> about moving the phone out of focus when double-tapping the take picture >>> button at the bottom center of the screen or doing a 2-finger double-tap. >>> >>> -- >>> Raul A. Gallegos >>> Harry Potter brand condoms: "Protect your slytherin from Hogwarts while >>> you're in her chamber of secrets." - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook >>> user ID: rau47 >>> >>> On 6/1/2013 7:31 PM, Joanne Chua wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Not sure if such apps exist, however, there are technics you can use that >>> will give you reasonable result with whatever you are photographing. It can >>> use in both iphones and also digital camera. >>>> >>>> I'm not sure what device you have, let say, you using an iphone. if you >>> taking picture of something, try to aline it on your forhead, as if, your >>> eyes become the camera lance. So, whatever you see will be what will be the >>> camera sees. If you can picture yourself in front of the object or the >>> subject you photographing of, you usually have 80% chance of taking it in a >>> line as your eye sees it. >>>> >>>> It is much easier using a camera, however, using it on an iphone help as >>> well. However, using an iphone does require a lot of practice, as the take >>> picture button is on the sscreen. >>>> >>>> Another tip, place the phone slitely left to your eye, or to your >>> forehead, as the lance of the back facing camera is on the top right side of >>> the camera. however, if you using the front facing camera, its on the top >>> middle. >>>> >>>> Again, it takes a lot of practice to get use to, but you'll eventually get >>> there. >>>> >>>> Hope this help. >>>> >>>> I hope this help. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> JoanneSent from my iPad >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 01/06/2013, at 5:07, James Lockwood <lockwoo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Ok. does anyone know of an application for the iphone that gives feedback >>> about when an item you are taking a picture of is centered ect? the camera >>> sometimes does it with faces already. but is there any program out there >>> which helps people who are completely blind take good or reasonably good >>> photos without the object being half off the screen or off center >>> drastically? >>>>> >>>>> http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/jim-lockwood-shows-podcast/id55398 >>>>> 1192 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>> Google Group. >>>>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>>>> --- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "VIPhone" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >>> Group. >>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "VIPhone" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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