David777
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Using Hands/Fingers in front of eyes to imaginary frame photo subjects without a camera
As an old landscape photographer, I've roamed complex terrains for decades looking for aesthetic frames within visual fields. Often may spend parts of any day when light is not worth exposing for, just exploring for subjects I will return to and shoot later. When doing so, I will often not actually carry a camera and instead conveniently hand frame potential subjects.
After playing that game for years, I've increasingly also just hand framed subjects in all manner of life activities, especially walking about in urban areas where I normally rarely carry cameras. So at a whim without any intention of taking any exposures, may rather just for the sake of going through motions of compositions since I have a well practiced talent having fun composing so, that may just take a few seconds. Sometimes while maybe merely walking down an urban neighborhood street and seeing someone's aesthetic plants or flowers, or inside some building with colorful objects, or walking by a colorful art fair market booth, etc, and rectangular hand frame up some imaginary composition.
Note, there are say YouTube videos that show ways to use hands with fingers to frame up subjects in front of one's eyes and face. But really, common sense in one's visual field with a bit of experimentation goes a long ways. Since I post process stitch blend many shots in variable sized rectangular shapes, telephoto to wide angle, that also saves a lot of time in the field while actually shooting, getting into ballpark tripod locations without actually dragging about my large carbon tripod/panoramic stitching heads plus a6700 system once narrowing in on exact spots.
Downsized for web foggy spring coastal bluff seascape from this last May, from an original single frame of 6150 by 4100 pixels consisting of 21 post processed focus stack blended shots. Landscapes like this require ethically carefully walking about so as to not trample plants. Thus first left my camera at the nearby use trail then hand framed about various spots until I found an optimal spot to stand and setup with the rest of my gear that includes about 12 pounds of stuff in a daypack.
As an old landscape photographer, I've roamed complex terrains for decades looking for aesthetic frames within visual fields. Often may spend parts of any day when light is not worth exposing for, just exploring for subjects I will return to and shoot later. When doing so, I will often not actually carry a camera and instead conveniently hand frame potential subjects.
After playing that game for years, I've increasingly also just hand framed subjects in all manner of life activities, especially walking about in urban areas where I normally rarely carry cameras. So at a whim without any intention of taking any exposures, may rather just for the sake of going through motions of compositions since I have a well practiced talent having fun composing so, that may just take a few seconds. Sometimes while maybe merely walking down an urban neighborhood street and seeing someone's aesthetic plants or flowers, or inside some building with colorful objects, or walking by a colorful art fair market booth, etc, and rectangular hand frame up some imaginary composition.
Note, there are say YouTube videos that show ways to use hands with fingers to frame up subjects in front of one's eyes and face. But really, common sense in one's visual field with a bit of experimentation goes a long ways. Since I post process stitch blend many shots in variable sized rectangular shapes, telephoto to wide angle, that also saves a lot of time in the field while actually shooting, getting into ballpark tripod locations without actually dragging about my large carbon tripod/panoramic stitching heads plus a6700 system once narrowing in on exact spots.
Downsized for web foggy spring coastal bluff seascape from this last May, from an original single frame of 6150 by 4100 pixels consisting of 21 post processed focus stack blended shots. Landscapes like this require ethically carefully walking about so as to not trample plants. Thus first left my camera at the nearby use trail then hand framed about various spots until I found an optimal spot to stand and setup with the rest of my gear that includes about 12 pounds of stuff in a daypack.
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