The Oddest Question You Have Been Asked, While Taking Photos?
Sep 22, 2017 06:44:51 #
Sep 25, 2017 21:14:47 #
Many years ago, as I was checking into a hotel, I noticed some beautiful low-growing flowers at the entrance. When I walked out early the next morning, I noticed that each blossom had a beautiful covering of early-morning frost. Not caring how I must have looked, flat on my stomach, propped up on my elbows with my camera in front of my face, one woman came up and asked "What are you doing?" I was tempted to say "Well, this seemed like a good spot to read a book and eat chocolates." What did she think I was doing? (Although I have to admit that I must have looked funny because I didn't want to breathe on the frost so I kept turning my head to the side to exhale.) When I told her "Oh I'm just taking pictures of the flowers" she asked "Why can't I do that with my camera?" Instead of going into the subject of macro lenses, I just told her that she probably didn't have the right kind of camera.
Sep 26, 2017 07:52:26 #
One more to add.
I have a handful of my favourite photos (Puffins, Northern Gannets and icebergs) on my mobile phone . There have been a number of time that I have been asked, "Did you take those pictures with your phone? I always say, "No. If I did, I'd sell all my camera equipment!, lickety-split!"
I have a handful of my favourite photos (Puffins, Northern Gannets and icebergs) on my mobile phone . There have been a number of time that I have been asked, "Did you take those pictures with your phone? I always say, "No. If I did, I'd sell all my camera equipment!, lickety-split!"
Oct 22, 2017 10:33:56 #
W9OD
Loc: Wisconsin
Sorry for the late reply. I am a Ham radio operator with photography among the other hobbies. I have a couple of amplifiers, one puts out 500 Watts the other 1500 Watts. The more power you use, or the better your antenna is, the better the distant hams can hear you. There are quite a few Ham operators in Nova Scotia, he was probably one. My Ham call is W9OD.
Oct 22, 2017 12:52:52 #
W9OD wrote:
Here is a word from an old radio engineer. Power is not necessarily that important. Sorry for the late reply. I am a Ham radio operator..................I have a couple of amplifiers, one puts out 500 Watts the other 1500 Watts. The more power you use, or the better your antenna is, the better the distant hams can hear you............................My Ham call is W9OD.
A station is never any better than its receivers. If you can't hear him, it does not matter that you can talk to him!
Oct 22, 2017 13:51:38 #
sroc wrote:
I had my camera and tripod set up on 72nd street and Broadway in NYC taking a photo of the full moon over the 72nd street station. A woman came by and looked at my camera and then up at the moon and said, "Oh wow is that an installation?" I said it was the moon. She replied, "Oh. I though it was an installation," and walked on.
I used to work on that corner.
Not to be off topic, I was taking early am shots of Mt Hood once with my EM1 Olympus mirrorless and the guy next to me with a Canon asked me if “is THAT a Sony A7 camera”? This was a couple of years ago.
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