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    S&D Pub: Metering the Dynamic Light in the Street

    in Street & Documentary

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    <p>Following on from Mike D's comment above. You have 2 or 3 basic lighting situations (shadow, overcast, full sun). A little preparation makes it simple. Meter on your hand for each of the three. Add a stop (for caucasian hands). Remember either the 3 apertures or the three shutter speeds depending on your preference. Set appropriately and shoot away. Then all you have to do is worry about focus :-). And composition. And subject movement...</p>

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    Looking for advice on cityscape photography

    in Beginner Questions

    Ergonomics of hand-held photos

    in Casual Photo Conversations

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    I don't have an EOS-20D, I still use my EOS-30 (or 7E if you prefer)

    which is a film camera. I have no trouble with sharpness handheld.

    I can usually do 1/2 stop better than the 1/focal-length=shutter-speed

    rule (i.e. use at least 1/50th for 50mm lens). I have found the best sharpness is by holding the camera body against my stomach. I don't have a waist-level finder, but with a 50mm prime lens I can usually work out what is in and what is out of the shot. This works especially well with the camera body held vertically like using a TLR. Then I trip the shutter with the longest finder on my right hand. If that makes sense without a diagram. As another data point, I also have an old Canon QL17-GIII rangefinder, which I can't hold still to anywhere near the same extent. It is smaller, but probably about the same weight. Hand size is an issue here maybe?

     

     

    Thanks,

    James

    Your true personality and the effect on your street photography

    in Street & Documentary

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    Not sure how to add something new here.

     

     

    I'm an experimenter, I try different techniques, angles (films, exposure methods, ways of holding the camera). I'm always looking for constructing something from nothing with minimal information (as I think Frank said above). All of that should be obvious by what I post here.

     

     

    I also try to change my personality, but am perhaps not able to change the 'true' core of it. I am always a beginner, an amateur not a veteran - which might betray a lack of self-confidence since I'd rather move on than be judged. I was very timid until my mid twenties and that should be plain from the lack of confrontation in what I do. I have never been driven by 'cool'. So while I'm interested in the reaction of others - I'm not sure how that feeds back into the process.

     

     

    Further to what Marc and Orviile said about recording with little reference to the output. I thought like that until 2 years ago I started studying again and didn't have much time to process shot film. My shooting dried up with it. Perhaps I do need to see the output to be able to come up with new shots. The amount of time I have spent carrying the camera around without taking a single shot in that time is phenomenal :-)

    Looking for urban landscape photographers.

    in Street & Documentary

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    Jeffrey Smart is an excellent painter of idealised industrial landscapes. Not sure I would put it into the same bucket as 'Urban landscape'. I have a book "The hand of man on America : David Plowden" which might help you. It might not be urban enough though.

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