Drinkin' and Shootin'

[grapejohnson]

Anyone else feel even more comfortable taking pictures after a few beers? Anyone take some of their favorite pictures this way? Please share

 

[V-12]

I think my jokes get funnier after a few beers so I don't see why my photographs wouldn't get better as well. 🙄

But to be honest I never tried photographing intentionally drunk, if I'm photographing I'm photographing, if I'm drinking I'm drinking, I'd rather do one thing well than two things badly.

 

[grapejohnson]

took this

 

[grapejohnson]

not that i condone this kinda thing or anything

 

[grantb]

My focusing and composition go out the window after a few drinks.

 

[Lund]

I usually end up with more pictures after a few drinks. Sometimes a good thing.

 

[Roger Hicks]

When I started as an assistant in a London advertising studio in the 1970s, part of my job was to open the first bottle of wine of the day at about 11:00 am, and then to keep 'em coming. We had to keep the clients happy while the film was biked to the lab, processed, biked back... Nowadays people work non-stop at their computers and drink bloody mineral water.

Cheers,

R.

 

[George Bonanno]

I do events in NYC so there's always plenty of booze. As the night gets going people offer to buy me drinks. Once I took 'em up on the offer. Boy, I was taking the best pictures of my life. The next day after I processed the pics WOW what an eye opener. The exposures were all over the place and the focus was, well, incoherent. In other words "I blew it". Never again will I drink and snap. Ya gotta realize I use a Baby Speed with flashbulbs so it's a no brainer when straight but when altered it's a disaster. Do it at home but not out in the field.

BTW: I was in Altoona once but I don't remember being there.

 

[Sparrow]

 

[flip]

Only problem with drinking and shooting is when you hand off an RF to a non RF user. Not only do they not focus, but they tweak some setting (speed typically) such that the next few shots are off until someone realizes what was tweaked. grr. bad

 

[PHAROLDO]

i took some pictures on a concert from the kills when i was lil drunk... 🙄
made them with a olympus 35sp without batteries so i was guessing exposure to... (ps: the color picture is portra 400 pushed to 3200)
was pretty pleased with the results.

 

[grapejohnson]

...Never again will I drink and snap. Ya gotta realize I use a Baby Speed with flashbulbs so it's a no brainer when straight but when altered it's a disaster. Do it at home but not out in the field.

BTW: I was in Altoona once but I don't remember being there.

Wow about Altoona! That tends to be the experience most people have coming here. That makes a lot of sense about not drinking while shooting professionally. I've never done any pro work, but if I did, I'd probably abstain as well.

 

[flip]

 

[dedmonds]

 

[goffer]

Want so bad...

 

[grapejohnson]

I'd feel like I was drinking developer with this flask

 

[muser53]

So what your saying is take a couple of shots and see what develops...did the Hippy variation of that last weekend at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park (Dry Branch Fire Squad to Patti Smith and everything in between!) and now have seven rolls of tri-x awaiting my attention.

 

[Al Patterson]

We did this a few times in Philly. Find a local group and have fun!!!

 

[muser53]

Oh and by the way...don't have a puppy and need to attract the gals? Try an M6 on a sunny weekend in SF...I was shocked especially considering I'm an "old" man of 59 with grey hair ;-)