W/NW: Self/group portraits while you're holding the camera out with your arm...

[cjm]

Post up your self/group portraits taken by holding the camera out with your arm. I always see people taking these types of portraits with Digital P&S's. This has always been quite a challenge with rangefinders, but I finally nailed it on my first roll with a Jupiter 12 attached to a Leica III.

At a Kings game:

 

[MelanieC]

That looks great. You must have long arms!

 

[raid]

Al Kaplan has mastered this technique since quite a while on Photo.Net. He uses a 15mm lens and he may have taken hundreds of photos of his daily events.

Raid

 

[cjm]

Melanie - thanks, I actually do have long arms, the kind that make suit shopping a pain!

raid - I know! I looked through his set of self-portraits taken with the 15mm and they have so much character. If I remember correctly, he has a cigarette in almost all of them and he's always talking to interesting people.

 

[Biggles]

Great picture.

 

[pvdhaar]

Cjm, that's certainly one of the better self/group portraits I've seen. Well done!

 

[jano]

Hey, CJM, I just noticed you are in Santa Ana 🙂 That is a great group photo!

Check this out: http://photodeviants.com
Next meeting this saturday, come by if you are interested, I could use some additional film support (I'm the last one!), but hands off the waitress, she's mine 😀 err some day I hope

 

[Steve Litt]

Great Picture,which coincides with a featured product in last weeks AP.
Check this out

http://www.quikpod.com/home.asp

Regards
Steve