Camera tossing

<p>Apparently this is the new craze. Amazingly, the results are really cool.</p>

<p>http://www.creativepro.com/article/colorful-art-camera-tossing</p>

<p>Nice pictures. Of course, you wouldn't catch me tossing any of my cameras.</p>

<p>sounds pretty 'catchy' to me (sorry-couldn't resist!). cb :-)</p>

<p>Yeh, I saw this several months ago on another site. Some of it's pretty clever. Gives me an idea of what to do with that old Olympus P&S digicam I don't even use anymore. It works but it's a slowpoke, first generation model that's not much good now for anything else.</p>

<p>Decades old craze. Comes back every few years....</p>

<p>I've seen this before and am not brave enough to throw my D300 up in the air...so i tried it with a P & S...you can get some pretty cool stuff....</p>

<p>I prefer moving the subject violently in front of my camera. Much easier on the equipment. </p>

<p>I prefer the Philippe Halsman approach of tossing the subjects instead of the camera. See his <em>Dali Atomicus</em> at <a href="http://galadarling.com/article/dali-atomicus">link</a></p>

I tied my old Nikon P&S to a tether I made from some shock cord and took it out in the yard. I held my arms straight out and spun around in circles. I got dizzy and fell down. I only tried this once.

<p>Cool, but I have my hands full just playing with camera movements with the camera in my hands. Try this 1/4 second exposure on for size, simple veritcal movement over the exposure. Until I feel like this, and for that matter regular photography have pettered out I am not about to undertake hurling my cameras through the air.</p><div></div>

<p>I've done something recommended by Freeman Patterson, which is to keep the camera on a tripod but keep the tripod head loose. You can move your camera during the shot but it is more controlled. See:<br>

http://www.freemanpatterson.com/print50.htm<br>

for example.</p>

<p>How about putting a camera in a paint shaker? Remember to turn of the image stabilizer or it won't work! Hey, this could become a good IS test for dpreview. My head sure is full on nonsense today!</p>

<p>JDM, I recreated Halsmann's portrait of Salvador Dali at our studio. It was messy, and the cats got downright ornery after the first few takes, but the results were cool, and all in all, it was fun.</p>

<p>I'm still working at getting beyond <em>accidental </em>camera motion. Maybe, someday, when I get bored with the camera always being still, I'll give this a shot. Besides, by that time my equipment will be so outdated as to have no real value, anyway!</p>

<p>I thought the designs in the link with the OP were good. I was expecting less. Once again, people surprise me with how they manage to take something to the next level. Don't drop your camera, though!</p>

<p>I came across on flickr couple of months ago and was (am still) amazed! It's quite neat what people can do, and I can't seem to match anything near to it. I tried with my point and shoot but got poor results. Granted, I only tried maybe for 30mins... I should give it another go... I think I should move away from the mantra "if at first you don't succed, move on to something else" to the classic "...try and try again..." :-P</p>

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<p>cats got downright ornery after the first few takes</p>

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<p>I think Halsman had the same problem. Those cats just aren't in it for the long term. I know mine isn't. :)</p>