Weekly challenge: 4/27 - 5/3 The Shooting Blind Challenge

[jcdeboever]

My bud called up with his new purchase. I thought a perfect opportunity to blind shoot. He is pretty stoked about his purchase, as am I. To be transparent, I shoot this way a lot being a street photographer. I crop and straighten a lot. My goal when shooting this way is depth of field. I preset my camera using the sunny 16 rule, I use either shutter priority or aperture priority dependent on what I'm doing. At the end of the day, I am a 100% viewfinder guy but blind shooting, it enables me creative control over the entire frame if I'm on my game.

Belt buckle shot, Nikon D610, 70-300 VR

high reach on semi truck mirror, triple reflection, back glass, side mirror, and actual glass for sign. D610

Crop

high reach on semi truck mirror, no crop

 

[CherylL]

The grand's birthday party. I took the Sony RX100iv today for video and switched into photo Auto mode which I think has a Wide focus area. I held the camera above my head and pointed down at the group. Not cropped.

 

[johngpt]

My bud called up with his new purchase. I thought a perfect opportunity to blind shoot. He is pretty stoked about his purchase, as am I. To be transparent, I shoot this way a lot being a street photographer. I crop and straighten a lot. My goal when shooting this way is depth of field. I preset my camera using the sunny 16 rule, I use either shutter priority or aperture priority dependent on what I'm doing. At the end of the day, I am a 100% viewfinder guy but blind shooting, it enables me creative control over the entire frame if I'm on my game.

Belt buckle shot, Nikon D610, 70-300 VR
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high reach on semi truck mirror, triple reflection, back glass, side mirror, and actual glass for sign. D610
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Crop
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high reach on semi truck mirror, no crop
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JC, I really like the 2nd, 3rd and 4th.

 

[jcdeboever]

My bud called up with his new purchase. I thought a perfect opportunity to blind shoot. He is pretty stoked about his purchase, as am I. To be transparent, I shoot this way a lot being a street photographer. I crop and straighten a lot. My goal when shooting this way is depth of field. I preset my camera using the sunny 16 rule, I use either shutter priority or aperture priority dependent on what I'm doing. At the end of the day, I am a 100% viewfinder guy but blind shooting, it enables me creative control over the entire frame if I'm on my game.

Belt buckle shot, Nikon D610, 70-300 VR
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high reach on semi truck mirror, triple reflection, back glass, side mirror, and actual glass for sign. D610
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Crop
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high reach on semi truck mirror, no crop
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JC, I really like the 2nd, 3rd and 4th.

Thanks. The first one was from the hip and for reference.

 

[photoflyer]

Eyes straight ahead. Camera out the window. Morning on a country road in VA. No crop but a little bit of tweaking. Also noted later that there were some dried rain spots on the filter so will be a little more attentive in the future.

 

[gk fotografie]

Can see that I've not done this kind of thing, in a serious way, in maybe 10 or 20 years?
Yesterday, a rainy day with an enormous amount of gusts, it was 'Koningsdag' in the Netherlands, the King's birthday and in the big cities there are all kinds of festivities, singers and dancers etc. and - such as in Amsterdam - all over town hundreds of spots where everyone can sell old things in a street stall.
In our village it's never that wild, there's some music and children sell, always with their parents present, old toys, books, clothes etc. Took my old Canon G9 , both hands together and half under my sleeve, and tried to produce something. Switched off the direct "view" function so as not to be tempted, at home I was only able to see what it all had become. ISO 1600, all pix made in the same wide-angle setting.

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Here's two original pics to show how much crop was needed...
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[Fred von den Berg]

 

[jcdeboever]

Father watching. I cropped for composition (shot a little wide for challenge) and straitened this image. If I didn't pop this off at the belly, I would have missed it. D610, 70-300 VR.

 

[johngpt]

Can see that I've not done this kind of thing, in a serious way, in maybe 10 or 20 years?
Yesterday, a rainy day with an enormous amount of gusts, it was 'Koningsdag' in the Netherlands, the King's birthday and in the big cities there are all kinds of festivities, singers and dancers etc. and - such as in Amsterdam - all over town hundreds of spots where everyone can sell old things in a street stall.
In our village it's never that wild, there's some music and children sell, always with their parents present, old toys, books, clothes etc. Took my old Canon G9 , both hands together and half under my sleeve, and tried to produce something. Switched off the direct "view" function so as not to be tempted, at home I was only able to see what it all had become. ISO 1600, all pix made in the same wide-angle setting.

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Here's two original pics to show how much crop was needed...
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Some nice ones here GK.

 

[johngpt]

Me, shot by the beloved wife, on one of my dead reckoning, shooting blind attempts. On other attempts I placed the camera all the way to the ground and guessed how much to tilt it back up. Those attempts ended up with better straightness of horizons...

And here is one of those attempts. I didn't bother straightening as I liked the sort of Dutch angle tilt.
Shot with a Hoya R72 filter on my Fuji X100, kneeling as seen in the photo above. Then brought into Nik Silver Efex.

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[Fred von den Berg]

crop 1x1 (the camera has a 4x3 aspect ratio)

 

[Fred von den Berg]

me in the mirror

 

[gk fotografie]

So mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Camera in one hand, with an outstretched arm held directly above the object, no crop

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[zulu42]

You guys are making this look easy. Chopped off his entire torso. I will try shooting wider.

 

[jcdeboever]

Some interesting images up to this point. Lets go out on a limb and get a little more creative. Ok, so we know we can shoot wide and crop. Lets dial it in and see our vision. I set out on vacation to shoot a short roll. I had the advantage of knowing I was going to present this as Peg approved it. I just developed the roll tonight. Lets discuss (not my short roll ) if there are any advantages to this process. For me, its about getting the shot. Why not practise some to get better at it. Questions I have? Are there advantages? When to do it and why?