Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]VK9, the rest can be thrown out. VK1 is scary, even for piano players. I sympathize though. I just shot a 6 piece jazz band with a bluescreen that was 12x12. Of course they wanted to whole stand up bass to show :( Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kyle Cassidy" <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu> To: <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:17 AM Subject: [Leica] [img] Photographing a piano quartet > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information