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-----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: D. Glenn Arthur Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 4. december 2004 11:26 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: Composition Thoughts and an Unfortunate Event ERNR wrote: > Sorry to hear you haven't been feeling well, and good to see you back (hope > it's not just a brief visit) Too early to say. > > Last night a flash jumped off the top of my Program > > Plus. > > I'm trying to picture this. And failing. Would you have time to elaborate? It was dark and I'm not sure exactly how it happened; the camera was hanging from my shoulder, I was putting my guitar in the trunk after a recording session, I heard that distinct sound of the plastic housing of a flash unit tumbling onto the pavement, and when I picked up the flash I saw that the foot had the flash shoe stuck to it. I don't know whether it had worked loose and chose that moment to fall, or got bumped by my bag as I leaned over, or what. > > .... I'm going to have to come up > > with some tricks to help me remember to plan for > > cropping when I shoot portraits. > > Perhaps a note attached to the back of the camera? > > (I'm serious.) Might work, as long as the note doesn't become so familiar that I tune it out as "visual noise" before the habit becomes ingrained enough that I no longer need the note. It's certainly the easiest thing I can imagine trying. I remember that the ground glass for the 5x7 camera I borrowed about a year ago had pencil marks on it to show the cropping for 8x10 prints, and that made a lot of sense to me ... but I'm not sure I want to try marking the viewfinders of my 35mm cameras. (I could see it if I were using an LX and could swap in a marked finder for portraits and an unmarked one when I didn't want any marks (and even then, I'd need to *remember* to put on the portrait-marked finder), but the closest I've come to having an LX is holding one for five or ten minutes on the way home from Toronto a few years ago and saying, "Oooh, feels nice in the hands, doesn't it?". Ah, but I digress and I ramble ... For now I'll grab some gaffer's tape and try your suggestion. -- Glenn
