Having others take your picture.

Andythaler wrote:
I don't know what you are talking about!

Most people who take pictures with my camera of me make great images.

Take a look at the example my wife took at my recent birthday.
Just look at the sharpness ... of the trees in the background

Best regards,
Andy

ROTFL!

I rarely have a problem with the other guy being able to physically work the camera. Unless the guy is a real dunce (and then I wouldn't hand it to him anyway) it's pretty straightforward.

However, they can't compose a picture for shi... er, beans. The rule of thirds, it seems, means "cut the top third of the head off".

If the thing has a zoom, it's always under or over used- for a portrait, they zoom way out, so as to get the entire majestic vista including the side of the garage, the trash cans, the neighbors' hedge and the corner of the minivan. For posterity, presumably. Either that or it's zoomed all the way in, framing everything from the middle of your lower lip to just above the eyebrows, all in scintillating detail that makes you want to start investing in better skin-care products.

If there's two people standing together, it seems the impromptu photographer centers the image on whichever one he or she either likes better or knows better. Why is that guy standing off to the side, missing most of his left shoulder?

Then there's the short guys or kids that insist on taking the picture. Yeah, I was looking for a low-angle portrait. See that empty sky? That's a high-resolution image of the airpace over the Grand Canyon.

Or they can't hold it level. Why is the ocean going uphill? Why is the Leaning Tower actually vertical?

Don't get me started.

Doc.

How do you set the exif to have your name in it from the camera? Can you do this via 3rd pty software to edit exif data. Or just edit the exif after download?

You set it using EOS viewer, the camera puts it into each photo.

I guess we are in no position to start flaming non photographers, i mean, if were to try their hobby once, the other guy would laught at us as well:
OMG!! you are using upstrokes to paint the B-52 fuselage! lol!!
How are we supposed to know.
Same as taking a pic i supose, you dont really know about standing still, and most people tell the subject to stay still, not themselves!
You live and you learn i guess,
maybe it should be introduced in the national curriculum as a standard requirement!
K

. . . then there was the time a "Brand X" (all right - NOINK) SLR owner asked me to take their picture. How can anyone hope to use one of those miserable designs? Everything's in the wrong place, they focus backwards, the aperture ring was backwards, it zoomed backwards . . . About the only thing I could find was the viewfinder!

Have the person stand where you intend to stand. Set up the cam on "M" including the focus. Switch places & it should work out.

which isn't easy if you're drunk!

hic

I carry a mini tripod with me (actually my wife carries it in her purse) and that is always my first choice. In situations where this won't solve the problem, I prefocus with Cfn set to 1 so focus won't change when the picture taker presses the shutter button. Next I set the smallest aperture possible while maintaining a handholdable shutter speed. I generally set the zoom to a wider angle than necessary in the hope of at least getting something usable in the frame. After finding someone who looks like they can walk and chew gum at the same time, I tell them to "stand here", place their finger on the shutter button and then get in the picture. It's not a sure fire method but it produces more successes than failures. You'll always come across the person who decides to re-frame the shot, fiddle with the zoom and focus rings on the lens and whatever else. The most frequent problem I find is people have a difficult time holding a large, heavy camera (I have a 20D with grip) because their used to their credit card sized P&S.

My wife and I were in San Francisco last May in Union Square and we asked this young couple if they would take our picture. The lady looked at us like we were nuts and stated that, where they were staying, there was no way they'd ever hand their camera to someone else for fear they'd never see it again. After taking our picture she dug down in her bag and pulled out her little P&S and asked if we'd return the favour. Has anyone ever handed their camera to someone only to watch them take off with it?

funny story, yes actually that did happen to me once.
A friend and I were in Millenium Park Chicago taking some pictures and I see this couple just standing around,holding hands, you know acting all couple'y and so on. So I walk over to them and ask if they would mind taking a picture of my friend and I. Well as soon as I hand my camera to the guy, he turns around and runs away. hahaha but he stopped 7 feet away and came back walking. That was hilarious, and in my "altered state of mind", mentioned he should be on the Chappelle Show.

Too funny! I'll have to keep that one in mind next time I'm asked to take someone's picture.

Nope, but carrying a decent camera can turn you into a magnet for tourists that want a photo of them in front of site X. The worst it ever happened to me I must have got through 10 or 12 cameras from this Japanese tour bus group, juggling them and hoping not to drop any. Not sure why they particularly thought I was there to provide that service but my wife thought it was hilarious. Same thing has happened at weddings if I've not been the lead photographer.

hahahha ya it was hilarious because his girlfriend was just standing there looking at him. She seemed more surprised than me and my friend put together. Cool couple though, coz for a few minutes we were all just cracking up.

yenoramp, as soon as someone gestures you to take a pic or hands you a camera, just turn around and run like uve never ran before and then abruptly stop a few meters down. hilarious

You mean like this? I am on the left, but the focus is on the back wall. This happened this past Saturday night at a benifit for the person on the right.

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Lol! I asked some guy carrying a Nikon D70 to take a pic of me and some people I met at Balboa Park using my XT and he just rolled his eyes and walked away...