Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The big problem with photographing a piano quartet is that they alwasy seem to want their pianos in it. And there are four of them. Which means you have to get above them really far, or above them with the widest lens you own, which usually means you've borrowed a ladder from some carpenter that looks pathetically small when you bring it into the room, but when you're balanced on top of it and one leg is 1/3 of an inch shorter than the others, it feels like being strapped on top of a 3 inch diameter birch tree swinging 40 feet in either direction in a strong breeze and you're so high up you realize you can see the curvature of the earth. This just gets worse when you look through the aux finder for your stupidly wide lens and suddenly the planet is naught but a thin blue disc hurtling away from you, leaving you lost and alone in space, with your ladder curving down towards the clouds like one leg of the st. louis arch.... Then finally you say "Forget this, I'm having a nosebleed. You're not getting photos of you and your pianos go stand on that staircase and look musical." http://www.availabledark.com/~ratty/lj/2007/vk1.jpg http://www.availabledark.com/~ratty/lj/2007/vk8.jpg http://www.availabledark.com/~ratty/lj/2007/vk9.jpg