The new 'Secret Life of Walter Mitty'

[The_Traveler]

Saw this,
Don't bother.

Ben Stiller is head of negative management at Life magazine -

Plus - beautiful scenic photography in Greenland and Iceland.
Cons- ridiculous plot and in order to make it partially plausible, there were so many distortions of reality that it became annoying.

What I did learn from this movie:

1) Good Photographers need to take only one exposure of a particular scene to get it perfect.
2) Large magazines that depend for the function on pictures don't log in any rolls of negatives they receive, they just sort of throw the stuff around.
3) Photographers can tell editors which image to use.
4) Flights overseas are never sold out, leave right away and get there almost instantly.
5) Photographers use old equipment, don't have cell phones or emails because they are old-fashioned.
6) If you are Ben Stiller, you can walk up an open mountain hillside in a bright jacket, fall and scramble around a bit and a snow leopard, an animal who is rarely seen just because it is no averse to humans and who seems to be quite close, won't notice.
7) If you get an opportunity to take the image you've traveled 10,000 miles to take, sometimes a really cool photographer doesn't even take the shot but enjoys the moment and then goes to play soccer at 18,000 feet.
8) If you are a really cool photographer, the 200 mm lens you use (no lens hood), will magnify the same as an 800 mm lens for the average guy.
9) " " " " , rather than using a gymbal that will allow you to pan with the target, you lock the camera down on a tripod next to a rock and the animal will walk right into the field of view and stay there.

Ugh

 

[tirediron]

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