How far do you go to get the right shot!

morch · #1 (**permalink**) 06-19-2006, 06:34 PM

Look at this article - Sometimes i see photographers getting themselves into crazy situations to get the right shot..

This woman took it too far - sad story..

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2090976

mswebb · #2 (**permalink**) 06-19-2006, 08:29 PM

I haven't read the article yet but would like to add to the wrong place thread.

Only a couple of short weeks ago a long-time online friend from an online forum was killed while photographing top-fuel racing cycles. Only moments before he had warned another photographer to watch out for certain riders as the had some issues in this particular curve. One of the riders lost control and leaped the track margin directly into my unfortunate friend.

The only consolation in this is that Gerald died doing what he loved best.

thesupe87 · #3 (**permalink**) 06-21-2006, 06:30 PM

I know...it happens when you have a passion for something. Like one time I was fishing on some slippery rocks by the beach in Virginia beach. I had a huge fish and was wearing sandals, walked on a slipper rock, and slid onto my butt - only to realize 30 seconds later that I had gashed my arm open, on barnacles. I needed stitches - my friends just wanted to stay and see what the next guy down had caught...some friends. Those barnacles sure are razor sharp. :P

jaystock · #4 (**permalink**) 06-21-2006, 06:43 PM

That kinda freaked me out....I'm heading to Arizona next week and one of the places I want to go is the Horseshoe Bend Overlook near Page, Az....it's about 1100 feet straight down to the Colorado river....maybe I wont' get too close now!

morch · #5 (**permalink**) 06-22-2006, 11:52 AM

mswebb,

Sorry to hear about your friend.

Doug

photovan · #6 (**permalink**) 06-26-2006, 09:39 PM

In September of 2004 I arrived at the Mammoth Springs complex in Yellowstone right after a guy had been gored by an elk. It was rutting season, and the rangers were moving people back when a man burst out of the crowd and raced forward with his camera. The bull, thinking this creature was after his female, lowered his head and tossed him a few feet.

In this case it wasn't passion for photography, but stupidity.

In India, at a dance performance in an old haveli, we sat on the wide wall between two empty fountains. A man stood to take a photo, then stepped back to frame the shot better. The pool was about 6 feet deep, and with nothing to break his fall, he was hurt in a country with no ambulances. The employees carried him out and called a taxi.

I turn around and look when I'm on a lawn, and want to step back. I never step backwards without looking anymore.

thesupe87 · #7 (**permalink**) 06-27-2006, 02:25 AM

Good advice...I'll have to practice that from now on as well. Sometimes you get so caught up in the moment, that you only see the world in between that little 4 sided box; the viewfinder/lcd..

yingyang0 · #8 (**permalink**) 07-21-2006, 01:27 AM

I know this will sound cold, but the story is proof that Darwin's theory is correct. The lady stepped over a pertective rail. It was not there to "add to the scene" it was there to keep people away from the edge. My favorite story from yellowstone is of the two people that jumped into the boiling water because they thought it would be like a hot tub (please note that they have signs everywhere saying that you will die if you jump in). In the long run it is better for the species. Now if only we could keep Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson from breeding.

thesupe87 · #9 (**permalink**) 07-21-2006, 03:01 PM

LMAO!!

tyke · #10 (**permalink**) 07-27-2006, 05:20 PM

This reminds me of my trek last year,a bloke that was in our group his camera had frozen dead at the summit.This is at the famous sign 'you are now at africas highest peak' (kilimanjaro). He asked me to take one of him as mine was still working,no probs.My zoom was frozen full out on my compact but still working.I had to keep backing back to get him in frame,little did i realise i was inching closer and closer to the craters lip ! Long way down :shock:

One of the guides grabbed me laughing at me in my oxygen depleated stupor ,he he.

It was just like that old joke,'just a little further back,a little further'.

Chris told me later he would have shouted after me to throw the camera up.Happy days :lol: