Fame at last?

[karohemd]

Dan Clark from Stromkern posted a link to my photo of him at Infest and calls it "the best live photo of me I've ever seen".
Hm, it's definitely not the best live photo I've ever taken (it was from the audience with my compact rather than a real camera) but if he thinks so... ;o)

Comments

[ev1ldonut.livejournal.com]

And what's not 'real' about a compact?!

My best live photo is without a doubt the one I got of Scott Deathboy when they were supporting Rico at The Garage. I took it on my Powershot G5 compact.

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendId=11782888&setonlinenow=1&setrsi=1&Mytoken=9E93FECC-AAFA-465E-B2205B3C6220078E8765000

Need to be signed in to MySpazz to view that, but it's the second one in the gallery if you're interested.

A little patience, a little skill, and a fair dose of luck for the crowd, subject and lights to all be right at the same time. The camera was was far from the most important part in this equation. ;)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Because with a real camera, I could have done more. *shrugs*

That is indeed a cool pic!

I've taken great pics with compacts, too but as you say, the lights and everything else (plus a ton of luck for the right moment) needs to be right.

Two things really irked me with my compact: the shutter delay (and delay til the next shot) and that panning along with the action was really difficult as the display couldn't keep up (the F11 doesn't have an optical viewfinder).
Despite it having exactly the same res as my SLR, the image processor doesn't stand comparison. Well, the £400 price difference has to be somewhere...

[davefish.livejournal.com]

A little patience, a little skill, and a fair dose of luck for the crowd, subject and lights to all be right at the same time. The camera was was far from the most important part in this equation. ;)

Well said! My best comment ever recieved was one of
"Wow, those are amazing photos, you must be able to hold the camera really steady!"

That said, I get very frustrated very quickly with compacts, especially the higher end prosumer ones, but I think that comes down to the shutter delay, no hole to peer through, and, crucially, the fact I can't use the buggers.

(I dunno what my myspazz login is, so I'll look at the pic later.)