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Originally Posted by Gremlin
Davemac, I know you are happy when you come home from filming with a wet gusset and I am not doing it properly if I return dry. I have to consider my old bones which have lasted a long time and I want them to carry on.
I cheat a little when taking shots low down or high up ones which means leaning backwards with a risk of falling over so I use this little device which isn't expensive and will, with the included adapters, fit any viewfinder.
Call me a softy, I don't care.
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I have to my knowledge never called you a softy, and I wouldn't presume to criticise anyone's technique either. We all have our own way of taking pictures, also we have our own specific types of photographs we prefer to snap.
I wouldn't want anyone to use my specific camera, in the same locations looking at the same subject, and contorting in the same way as I do, it would very soon become tiresome if we all did the same thing.
What I would encourage is for people to go out and take photographs with the camera they are comfortable with, and a subject they have a symbiosis with, that way the passion for the subject comes through.
I would also point peoples attention to the name on the thread "today in pictures" it was never about who takes the best pictures or who specialises in a specific genre, or whose tackle is bigger than mine. It was, and still is about a persons day in pictures or just a snapshot of that day. It doesn't have to be in photographs either, it could be watercolours or oil paintings to take it to the extreme.
However, if you go back to the beginning and look at the photographs produced, and select at random through the thread to the present day, you will come to the conclusion that the photographs produced from then to now have shown a definite improvement, not on an individual basis but the group as a whole. This has not evolved by everyone doing their own thing, but by bouncing off one another, and a willingness to share ideas, techniques, software wrinkles, and other "stuff". We all extract inspiration from the group, and I would like to think that if I take a picture and someone else can expand on it, then they would do so.
Right this is the most I have typed in one go, I have to go and have a brew, and a Garibaldi