Dizzee Rascal photography

I like today's shot - anyone know where it is? Have just shown my son (11) the video & pic, he likes Dizee and is testing the waters of photography for himself :)
 
If you hover over the little copyright logo on the bottom right, it tells you where it is. I dont think today's is one of Dizzies though.
 
D'oh

Can't hover, on my iPad :-/ I'll have to remind myself to check later, thanks :)
 
Not holding it correctly!?! Whatever next, not wearing the correct clothing?

I'm guessing good or bad, some of his fans might fancy getting outside with a camera!!.That's if they are not too busy taking drugs or robbing people to pay for them

Snobbery on TP, whatever next.......
 
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WP-UK said:
at about 50secs in you can see him get handed the camera after it appears the lens was changed.
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He's doing a video too though, you don't know what he's doing in between shots. If he's doing something else then handing his equipment to someone else isn't unlikely, I'd expect they even provided him with an assistant.

I'm sure quite a few big professional photographers don't change their own lenses.

deadpan said:
Not holding it correctly!?! Whatever next, not wearing the correct clothing?
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It's simple physics.
If you hold just the body and have a lens extending out in front of it then the body is a pivot point and the weight of the lens acts upon it. This increases fatigue as you're fighting to keep the camera straight and makes it much more difficult to keep the camera steady which increases camera shake and makes it harder to get sharp shots at a given shutter speed.
If you support the underside of the lens and body with your left hand for a short lens or support the underside of the lens forward of the body with your left hand for longer lenses (as they stick out more and have more of a leverage effect) you move the pivot point to the centre of the object and it's much easier to keep it steady and level.

Not adopting the normally accepted stance (it's widely accepted enough that it's in camera body manuals) is usually a good sign of someone having been just handed a camera (it crops up an awful lot for actors on TV) as anyone who spends a decent amount of time holding an SLR style camera will quickly learn that they need to support the equipment better.

Obviously that doesn't mean you can't make it work or that it's conclusive evidence someone doesn't know what they're doing but it's generally a clue as to someone being a "guy with a camera" rather than a photographer.
 
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