Lester V. Ledesma's photoblog. This online shoebox contains random photos, notes, whatever. I've been a professional writer-photographer for eight years now. It's a damn good excuse to carry a camera around. These days I'm either on the road or at home in Singapore doing assignments for about a dozen magazines. Nope, this isn't my online portfolio - do check out my website, www.skylightimages.info for that :)
Friday, December 7, 2007
Thru the Legs
Ooops, I meant lens...
David, a regular student in my photography classes, shows the great lengths a dedicated photographer will go to just to get that shot.
I personally wouldn't do that sort of thing. What if David accidentally tilts his camera upwards and sees what's between the legs and underneath that skirt? He'd get clobbered by that lady.
While we can admire David's ingenuity and creativity to explore unique angles, this points out a much larger problem unnoticed by camera manufacturers - the importance of a flip-out, rotating LCD.
A camera with this type of LCD will greatly help you explore angles while keeping you from hitting the pavement :-) Point-and-shoot cameras used to have these LCD, but manufacturers used fixed LCDs to save cost and make their cameras more affordable.
Today, even DSLRs do not have flip-out LCDs. So photographers are missing out on the opportunities to explore other angles. A flip-out LCD will help you shoot in a crowd, because you can extend your arms up and still see the subject. I recall reading that Ansel Adams strapped his camera atop a car to take landscape shots, so that his photos can have that unique angle and viewpoint.
Perhaps we can bug Nikon and Canon to consider adding a flip-out LCD again?
2 comments:
I personally wouldn't do that sort of thing. What if David accidentally tilts his camera upwards and sees what's between the legs and underneath that skirt? He'd get clobbered by that lady.
While we can admire David's ingenuity and creativity to explore unique angles, this points out a much larger problem unnoticed by camera manufacturers - the importance of a flip-out, rotating LCD.
A camera with this type of LCD will greatly help you explore angles while keeping you from hitting the pavement :-) Point-and-shoot cameras used to have these LCD, but manufacturers used fixed LCDs to save cost and make their cameras more affordable.
Today, even DSLRs do not have flip-out LCDs. So photographers are missing out on the opportunities to explore other angles. A flip-out LCD will help you shoot in a crowd, because you can extend your arms up and still see the subject. I recall reading that Ansel Adams strapped his camera atop a car to take landscape shots, so that his photos can have that unique angle and viewpoint.
Perhaps we can bug Nikon and Canon to consider adding a flip-out LCD again?
Haha well that happens to be his wife so that takes care of the permission part :P
And 4 months after you posted this, the new DSLR's now sport moveable LCD's... who would've thought??? :)
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