by cosmicB on Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:06 pm
This successful Russian Photographer says "click your camera, and toss it into the air spinning while it's taking the picture"...
I can see how it could give you some rare shots, but should it hit something hard, it's game-over for the camera...
I would set a thick soft puffed-up feather sleeping-bag to catch it if you miss.. or I just wouldn't try this trick.. It's just too dangerous.. and cameras are just too expensive... Maybe the best thing be to do it with an old junk camera... Or you hold the camera, and jump off of something while taking the pix... Or you could attach the camera to a string on the end of a stick, and gently spin the camera in the air while its taking the pix.. that way it can't get dropped and wrecked... but if it hits the stick when you are slowing its spin, that could damage it, so pad the stick with thick padding where the camera can touch the stick... Or just set the camera on a string suspended from something, and click it, then give it a quick spin near the Xmas tree... This last one is the safest, and should prove interesting...
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