[Leica] [img] Photographing a piano quartet

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

What, no jumping? ;^)

ric


On Apr 26, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:

> 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."
>
>
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