Leonie
08-24-2011, 04:02 PM
Two of my most recent photos here at Photozo are the waiting and desperate in line (http://www.photozo.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23734). To make these photos I needed to take a series of individual photos of myself sitting in a chair, each photo in a different outfit and shoes, so that they could all be merged together into one image. As I'm being the model on the other side of the camera I can't see to adjust focus and framing. I set up the camera on tripod, make sure the chair I'll be sitting on is properly in frame and the focus is at the right point, lens then set to manual focus. It's very important the camera doesn't move once this is set up, it makes stitching the photos together much easier. Also as I'm on the wrong side of the camera I'm using a remote shutter release and not looking through the viewfinder to make sure all is okay.
So I take the first set of photos in outfit number one and dash off to the bedroom to change into the next outfit. I come back, take some more photos, change again and so on. Only a little later do I look at the camera and tripod and think to myself that it looks like it's moved. Ask daughter if she's moved the camera at all whilst I was away. "Oh yes", she says, "I wanted to take a photo of Molly, but I put the tripod back to where it was after I was finished". So I look back through the photos and what do you know, there's a very out of focus photo (lens set to manual focus) of Molly our puppy. Together with the lovely photo of Molly is a whole series of photos with parts of my feet chopped off.
Serves me right for not checking each and every single photo and making sure everyone in the house understood that the camera MUST NOT BE MOVED!! So, back to the start and we finally successfully got the photos done :)
So I take the first set of photos in outfit number one and dash off to the bedroom to change into the next outfit. I come back, take some more photos, change again and so on. Only a little later do I look at the camera and tripod and think to myself that it looks like it's moved. Ask daughter if she's moved the camera at all whilst I was away. "Oh yes", she says, "I wanted to take a photo of Molly, but I put the tripod back to where it was after I was finished". So I look back through the photos and what do you know, there's a very out of focus photo (lens set to manual focus) of Molly our puppy. Together with the lovely photo of Molly is a whole series of photos with parts of my feet chopped off.
Serves me right for not checking each and every single photo and making sure everyone in the house understood that the camera MUST NOT BE MOVED!! So, back to the start and we finally successfully got the photos done :)