When you shoot portrait...

SeymoreSeymore Banned Posts: 1,539 Major grins
edited May 19, 2005 in Cameras
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  • BridgeCityBridgeCity Registered Users Posts: 338 Major grins
    edited May 19, 2005
    Seymore wrote:
    This post does not pertain to dSLR bodies with the 2nd shutter button for portrait shots.

    When you shoot portrait and your taking a hand held shot... So do you have the shutter button up or down?

    I only ask this because, as an example, I see pathfinders avatar shows the button up and I've always shot with the button down. This just feels more comfortable and stable to me.
    Personally, I shoot with the button up.
    :dunno www.BridgeCityStudios.com:dunno
  • luckyrweluckyrwe Registered Users Posts: 952 Major grins
    edited May 19, 2005
    I shoot shutter up. If I shoot shuter down I shoot with my thumb.

    If I am going to shoot portrait all day I will shoot button up, then to do a landscape I will rotate the camera to the left. It will be upside down and probably really look weird, but it gets the shot!
  • Michiel de BriederMichiel de Brieder Registered Users Posts: 864 Major grins
    edited May 19, 2005
    down is way more stable for me, but my avatar is from 'that time' when I hadn't figured that out yet :D
    *In my mind it IS real*
    Michiel de Brieder
    http://www.digital-eye.nl
  • T4TotsT4Tots Registered Users Posts: 198 Major grins
    edited May 19, 2005
    I always shoot button down to keep it steady. That's also the way my tripod swings for portrait. I think I read somewhere that if you are using flash in portrait that you should hold the camera in the position that is "button up"...I have no idea where I read it...wish I did. I know for rotating on smugmug it's one step faster because the right rotate button is already selected, so I figure it's the most common.
    Tina Folsom :lust
    Photographer and Mom of Four!
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    http://tinafolsomphotography.com
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