Oct 21 2008

Camera Position 68 : Zoom With Your Feet!

Published by Jeff Curto at 10:35 am under Podcast Entry

Zoom with your feet! Zoom lenses can interfere with the creative process by letting you get lazy with where you’re positioning your camera. Switching to a “prime” lens of a single focal length can help your composition and your thought process. We also look at “The Poor Man’s Tripod” – a simple device for helping to steady your camera.

Photographs by Jeff Curto (click for larger versions)

Poor Man’s Tripod

 
icon for podpress  To play podcast larger, click "download" and play in QuickTime Player [12:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Bookmark and Share

5 responses so far

5 Responses to “Camera Position 68 : Zoom With Your Feet!”

  1. # Brunoon 22 Oct 2008 at 10:53 am

    Jeff,
    I can’t listen to the podcast. The download doesn’t work either.

  2. # Jeff Curtoon 22 Oct 2008 at 11:02 am

    Hi, Bruno;

    Well, I was just able to download it from the weblog page (where it played both in the browser and as a download) and also through iTunes.

    Try again and see what happens.

    -Jeff

  3. # Robert DeRobertison 25 Oct 2008 at 3:53 pm

    Thanks for another edition. I love the poor man’s tripod concept, I’m going to try it when I have a chance. On tripods, are there recommendations on how to make a selection? Although I know equipment is not the point of this podcast, understanding the issues with selecting a tripod might be a good discussion.

    Thanks again.

  4. # latogaon 01 Feb 2009 at 1:49 pm

    I was catching up on some podcast listing during a recent flight and listened to this episode. (while I can’t always listen to all the podcasts I subscribe to as soon as they are released, they are definitely not ignored forever… :-) )

    As usual, wonderful episode…thanks for sharing your inner thoughts on your photo capturing process.

    Also, congratulations (a bit late) on the move into the new studio. I recently launched a short term blog project asking photographers what is the view from your studio; a project inspired by Ted Orland’s book by a similar name. Perhaps you can join the project by sharing the view from your new studio and the impact that it has had on your work over the past 3 months?

  5. # Jeff Curtoon 15 Feb 2009 at 3:24 pm

    Greg;

    Glad to see you’ve extended the deadline for the “view from your studio” project… especially because you’ve cited “a bunch of stuff got in the way of a great idea” as one of the reasons for the need to extend. That’s my problem, as well…

    I’m on it now, tho!

    -Jeff

Trackback URI | Comments RSS

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.