safe places to shoot from

dizave · April 30, 2004

I was wandering Providence trying to come up with something worth posting in the latest photo assignment today. Minding my own business sitting on part of a bridge trying to line up a photo when I hear a little "click". Another guy with a DSLR just caught me in the act.

We both were going on the opposite sides of the river after that, and I caught this after I watched him climb over the fence to stand on about a 6 inch ledge to get a shot of some ducks. It isn't as bad as the Cuyahoga, but I don't think I'd like to fall in this river:

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So, what is the least safe place you've ever shot from?

patch29 · April 30, 2004

You would have had a great shot if he fell.

One of the I-95 overpasses in JAX, before they were enlarged, to set up a 4x5 to shoot a building. Awful fun with cars wizzing by at 65mph.

On the inside of a 1/3 mile race track, photographing late model auto racing with no wall to hide behind, to be a teenager again.

These days I will usually let the camera be in the precarious situation and leave me on safer ground.

cletus · April 30, 2004

A grocery store parking lot.

While working for the MU student newspaper, I took pictures at a standoff between two prision escapees and police. One of the officers saw me reaching into my camera bag and thought I was getting a weapon. He turned toward me and started to raise his shotgun to his sholder. Luckily I didn't see this, I was looking in my bag, otherwise I probably would have soiled myself. My "friend" from the paper told me what had happened afterward. I put "friend" in quotes since when it happened, the only thing he did was take a big step away from me.

So I almost got shot... I did get a great picture that ran on the front page of the paper, and the same shot later won Picture of the Year from the Missouri College Newspaper Association.

Sam · April 30, 2004

So, what is the least safe place you've ever shot from?[/QUOTE]
Here is one. It's an old photo of poor quality but does let you know where it was taken from.

wxwax · April 30, 2004

Nothing to match you guys. Just shooting on the streets of downtown, especially after dark, I get accosted by street guys trying to hustle a buck. I put on my best "I'm really mean and dangerous" look. So far everyone's had the good manners not to laugh when I do that.

patch29 · April 30, 2004

wxwax wrote:

I put on my best "I'm really mean and dangerous" look.

This one??

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wxwax · April 30, 2004

patch29 · April 30, 2004

wxwax wrote:

Must resist urge to release kryptonite, superman must pay for his actions.

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wxwax · April 30, 2004

Do you feel lucky? Well, do you punk? :hang

patch29 · April 30, 2004

wxwax wrote:

Do you feel lucky? Well, do you punk? :hang

RU?

wxwax · May 1, 2004

patch29 wrote:

RU?

Nah, I'm checking her out.

rutt · May 1, 2004

Baldy Chutes, Alta UT
I skied Main Chute on Feb 15 this year. I don't think these pictures really get across how steep this is, but I'm a good skier and it's sort of on the edge of what I will do. (Actually, climbing up there is the thing that scares me most; I don't like to climb over steep rocks in my ski boots. I'd say my feelings about that are near phobic.)

Anyway, here is one looking down into the chute from the top. If you know Alta, the shot is looking across Gremania basin down on the High Traverse.

Looking back up from about 1/3 down. I messed around a lot in photoshop in order to recover the details in the snow. I don't really like the effect, but it better captures the steepness. It would have helped to have had someone in the picture to give it some scale.

Here is a shot from an earlier trip to Baldy Chutes, in 2001. This time we are looking down Dog Chute.

wxwax · May 1, 2004

You're right, having a person in the shot gives both a sense of scale and of steepness.

cmr164 · May 1, 2004

dizave wrote:

So, what is the least safe place you've ever shot from?

1. In a GF's bedroom while her father was downstairs cleaning his guns...

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2. sitting on a 33d floor railing.

3. Most dangerous attempt to get a picture was going to Tintagel (google it) in greater than 70 mile an hour winds a couple of hundred meters up a cliff face with a mixture of driving rain and salt spray made everything slippery and the wind was lifting my entire body up so that I had to use both hands to hold on to the slippery rockface.

mutineer · May 2, 2004

safest place to shoot from huh?

um, not from here?

dizave · May 2, 2004

mutineer wrote:

safest place to shoot from huh?

um, not from here?

Hah! I know you didn't take that shot. Unless you used the timer.

mutineer · May 2, 2004

my little brother took it, I took this one of him http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=1189scroll down for the shot.

If you look close you can see that there is no shell in the gun, you can see the action.

safe places to shoot from

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