[ratpack] Re: Hide the razor blades
- From: Michael Wells <mcwellsphoto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:39:39 -0700
If you'll notice almost all of his pics come from a high vantage
point, I'd like to know how he gets that vantage point of all of the
raceways. Height almost always gives a unique perspective to what we
normally see standing at street level. I really like height to give a
new perspective but it's not always possible.
I once saw a picture of Ansel Adams, he had an old panel/station wagon
type vehicle, what we might call an early version of the Suburban. It
had a luggage rack on the roof and Ansel built a platform on the
luggage rack so he could add height to his pics and make it easier to
eliminate roads and other foreground distractions. I proposed it once
to my wife when we had a Tahoe but she put the nix on that pretty
quick.
Michael
On 11/11/09, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A couple of year ago, Paul, Larry and I were ready to slit our
> throats after comparing our photos to those shot by Jeromy (official
> MMP photographer and I can't remember his last name...Camp
> maybe?) When I saw some of his shots from the World Superbike race,
> I wanted to spend some time sobbing uncontrollably before I did the
> throat cutting. His photos were orders of magnitude better than mine.
>
> I believe that we've all become better photographers and I think our
> shots compare favorably to his. But. (Why is there always a
> "but?") I've been following Mark Rebilas' blog (I posted the url for
> it here a coupla weeks ago) and I'm not sure that razor blades are a
> good thing to have readily at hand, especially when I see the way he
> does stuff like the photo journal of the NASCAR weekend at Texas
> Motor Speedway:
> http://markjrebilas.com/blog/?p=6975#more-6975
>
> I once read a comic strip (Ziggy) that said, "just when I figure out
> 'where it's at,' they move it." Seems that the bar has been raised a
> coupla notches...at least. Not only in the "pop and drama" that Paul
> likes to talk about, but his journalism and his apparent ability to
> be everywhere at once make for a VERY effective and high quality blog entry.
>
> I guess I better be prepared to work on my craft a bit (no, a lot)
> harder in the coming year. I spose seeing work like Rebilas' helps
> with seeing things differently and...well, whatever it is that I can
> learn, including the presentation of the photos and line copy (or
> accompanying text, if you like.)
>
> I better ramp up the learning curve again.
>
> RtR
>
>
>
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Michael Wells
MCWells Photography
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