Are you right or left handed?

Are you right or left handed?

  • Left

    Votes: 51 29.1%

  • Right

    Votes: 104 59.4%

  • Ambidextrous

    Votes: 20 11.4%
  • Total voters
    175
  • Poll closed .
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They say that left handed people are more creative so it follows that from all the creative photographers who hang out here, there should be a higher than normal percentage of left handed photographers. Only problem is I don't know who they are or what the normal percentage is. Never mind, we'll do the poll anyway.
 
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For whatever reason, the incidence of left-handedness is much higher in school teachers than in the general population. But not me.
 
All my family is left handed, except me... They have no interest in art, I do. This leads me to consider my parentage... :)
 
Left-handed (sorta kinda*), right-eyed. One daughter same; wife, other daughter, and son right-handed. I did like the old Exactas that I used to shoot with, being left-handed as they were.

* Actually "mixed dominance"; lefty for fine motor skill tasks, righty for gross motor tasks. This apparently has all sorts of fall-out for various mentation/motor things.
 
Ambidextrous but right-hand educated.
Right-eye shooter, in order to not sully my R-D1 LCD screen.
 
As a child, I was ambidextrous. That even went so far that I would alternately write one line from left to right with my right hand, and the next from right to left with the left hand with all letters exactly in their mirror image. At the time, being left handed was still frowned upon, although I didn't receive the same kind of harsh treatment my father got a generation earlier. By having my pen taken away from my left hand and being handed it back to my right all the time, I learned to write/draw right handed. Fortunately, nowadays this is all no issue anymore.. my kids are decidedly left-handed and allowed to be so (good for them!).
 
I am right-handed, but trying to train myself to be ambidextrous--it's fun and really worth it (try a screwdriver with your other hand for example).

However, I am LEFT-EYED. When I photograph, I use my hands as most right handed people, but I always use my left eye to look through the viewfinder/rangefinder. This has been an issue at times, since this usually moves my nose right behind the camera body. When using the Leica M8, I would constantly smudge my display. Now that I shoot mostly analog, I don't have that problem anymore :)
 
Left handed and left eyed. I also naturally write backwards, which in school led to all sorts of harsh treatment. The usual left hand tying to my belt loop so I would be encouraged to use my right hand - didn't work, put in the remedial class (for two months - when they then realised there was nothing wrong with me) back in mainstream class and then put on to the ITA (initial teaching alphabet) language, worst thing that ever happened. Years later, went to Art College and trained in Fine Art, predominantly painting and photography. Now I'm a Teacher.
 
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I'm left handed, but right eye dominant.

Up until I was about 10 I couldn't hit the broad side of a barn right rifle of pistol; then I found out about the whole eye thing now I'm a mean shot with my SKS iron sights.

With a camera, it doesn't matter which eye I use: pictures still suck!
 
I am right-handed, right-eyed... absolutely cannot write with my left hand, nor can I throw a base-ball / football with the left hand; haven't tried to bowl with the left - I fear such an attempt might land someone in the hospital !

I do have some manual dexterity with the left hand; I took piano for several years as a child, and flirted with the idea of minoring in piano at college. Motor tasks with the left hand aren't too bad - I can frequently "change hands" when working on antique cars and such.

Using my Exakta SLR does not present any dexterity issues.

Both parents are righties; my brother is a leftie - the nuns insisted he learn to write
right-handed during primary school, and as far as I know, he still writes RH, fifty years later.

My brother and I are both musicians - he is an organist, I am a singer (bass-baritone / low-brass ); my brother is the creative one, gourmet cook, etc. When I am conducting choirs, I frequently switch hands in my conduting pattern, for page turns, etc.... doing so does not disrupt the tempo or cuing...

Like gb hill, I hardly feel like I have much in the way of creative ability... at least not in terms of "clean-sheet" concepts.
 
Somewhere along the line I gained quite a lot of dexterity with my left hand although I'm actually right handed. I can use tools and throw a ball with my left hand and I noticed today while clearing weeds I can use a machette quite effectively with my left!

There used to be a few ambidextrous pro tennis players around a few years ago.
 
My sister is three years older than I am, and started school first. She decided to play school teacher, and teach me how to write before I started learning how in school. She said, "The first thing is to know which hand you write with." I asked her which hand she used, and she said her left. To make life easier for both of us, I said I would use my left, then, too. So I learned to write with my left hand, but do most other things right-handed (it is kind of forced upon you with manufactured gadgets that require one hand or another).

As to being more creative - I do like creating art, and get restless when I am not.
 
Lefty here. Used to be an ambi but broke my right arm a few times and it just lost its usefulness always being in a cast.
 
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