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Do you remember the 60's when only professional photographers and
those with single lens reflex cameras who pretended they were like
pros would in a crowd raise the camera over their heads and shoot
without looking?

Now everyone does.

On 8/26/2008 6:28 PM mm spake thus:

Do you remember the 60's when only professional photographers and
those with single lens reflex cameras who pretended they were like
pros would in a crowd raise the camera over their heads and shoot
without looking?

Do you remember when only crazy people walked around talking to themselves?


--
"In 1964 Barry Goldwater declared: 'Elect me president, and I
will bomb the cities of Vietnam, defoliate the jungles, herd the
population into concentration camps and turn the country into a
wasteland.' But Lyndon Johnson said: 'No! No! No! Don't you dare do
that. Let ME do it.'"

- Characterization (paraphrased) of the 1964 Goldwater/Johnson
presidential race by Professor Irwin Corey, "The World's Foremost
Authority".

mm wrote:
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Do you remember the 60's when only professional photographers and
those with single lens reflex cameras who pretended they were like
pros would in a crowd raise the camera over their heads and shoot
without looking?

Now everyone does.


Done it since working on yearbook in high school. Sometimes it is the
only way to get the shot. Works best with wide angle lens, obviously,
but with practice you can even do it with a short telephoto.

--
aem sends...

"aemeijers" wrote in message
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mm wrote:
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Do you remember the 60's when only professional photographers and
those with single lens reflex cameras who pretended they were like
pros would in a crowd raise the camera over their heads and shoot
without looking?

Now everyone does.


Done it since working on yearbook in high school. Sometimes it is the only
way to get the shot. Works best with wide angle lens, obviously, but with
practice you can even do it with a short telephoto.



I'm a competitive pistol shooter and sometimes go to the plinking range to
practice "hip-shooting" -i.e., holding the gun near my waist and shooting
at a target on the ground just based on pointing with my hand-- no aiming
with the sights.

I've actually gotten quite good at it-- good muscle feedback and
proprioceptive senses I guess, and can consistently hit frozen juice can
sized target at 8-10 yards. That skill generalized to pointing a camera from
over my head-- I can generally frame just what I want and hit the shutter
release....

"Flatus Johnson" fj@nonet wrote in message
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"aemeijers" wrote in message
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mm wrote:
OT

Do you remember the 60's when only professional photographers and
those with single lens reflex cameras who pretended they were like
pros would in a crowd raise the camera over their heads and shoot
without looking?

Now everyone does.


Done it since working on yearbook in high school. Sometimes it is the
only way to get the shot. Works best with wide angle lens, obviously, but
with practice you can even do it with a short telephoto.



I'm a competitive pistol shooter and sometimes go to the plinking range to
practice "hip-shooting" -i.e., holding the gun near my waist and shooting
at a target on the ground just based on pointing with my hand-- no aiming
with the sights.

I've actually gotten quite good at it-- good muscle feedback and
proprioceptive senses I guess, and can consistently hit frozen juice can
sized target at 8-10 yards. That skill generalized to pointing a camera
from over my head-- I can generally frame just what I want and hit the
shutter release....
Yeah, I'm on a project where we have to take pictures in the ware house of a
electric power plant, and sometimes there is no way to get behind the motors
up on the racks, so I'm getting pretty good at reaching around them and
judging where to hold the camera.
Tony

My pocket size digital has been incredibly helpful in my HVAC/R business.
Allows me to see things where I can't cram my fat head in.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
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"Anthony Diodati" mrbreezeet1NO wrote in message
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Yeah, I'm on a project where we have to take pictures in the ware house of a
electric power plant, and sometimes there is no way to get behind the motors
up on the racks, so I'm getting pretty good at reaching around them and
judging where to hold the camera.
Tony

Ah, the good old days of shooting the buttons off them thar varmints at the
OK coral. Glad someone is still fluent in the old techniques.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..


"Flatus Johnson" fj@nonet wrote in message
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I'm a competitive pistol shooter and sometimes go to the plinking range to
practice "hip-shooting" -i.e., holding the gun near my waist and shooting
at a target on the ground just based on pointing with my hand-- no aiming
with the sights.

I've actually gotten quite good at it-- good muscle feedback and
proprioceptive senses I guess, and can consistently hit frozen juice can
sized target at 8-10 yards. That skill generalized to pointing a camera from
over my head-- I can generally frame just what I want and hit the shutter
release....

In article ,
mm wrote:

Do you remember...photographers...would in a crowd raise the
camera over their heads and shoot without looking?

Now everyone does.

Using that technique, I have taken a few, successful shots that I would
have otherwise missed.

Today, with top-of-the-line, point-and-shoot digital cameras with tilt
and swivel LCD displays, it is a much easier practice.

If one really wishes to look like a pro, they must have TWO SLR bodies
hanging from their neck and one must have a HUGE lens. BTDT.
--

JR

Size matters.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..


"Jim Redelfs" wrote in message
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Using that technique, I have taken a few, successful shots that I would
have otherwise missed.

Today, with top-of-the-line, point-and-shoot digital cameras with tilt
and swivel LCD displays, it is a much easier practice.

If one really wishes to look like a pro, they must have TWO SLR bodies
hanging from their neck and one must have a HUGE lens. BTDT.
--

JR

Ah, the good old days. When film was 100 ASA, and flash were only for the
wealthy, and for people who bought Instamatics. When film came in rolls or
cartridges, and you had to send off for developing.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..


"mm" wrote in message
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Do you remember the 60's when only professional photographers and
those with single lens reflex cameras who pretended they were like
pros would in a crowd raise the camera over their heads and shoot
without looking?

Now everyone does.