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Even though I'm not the only one, I feel a bit alone at times...so I'm seeing if there are any more blind photographers here. Whether you're an amateur, an expert, or just want to explore, this is the place for you. I consider myself an amateur, so I'm here to learn as well. Tips, tricks, methods, resources, successes, blind fails, questions, bragging, grieving sight-loss, etc. are welcome. Readysetgo.
I'm not fully blind, but I'm pretty blind, and it's befallen me to be the photographer and videographer for my friends' bands on numerous occasions.
The biggest deal is checking your view of the lighting against the reality and keeping your instruments stable, especially if you're unsure of the distance away from your subject.
Neat! I'm at about light perception. It's hard to explain my composition methods, but most of the time, my pics turn out fairly decent. When I lost a lot of sight, my boyfriend set my camera to autoadjust the ISO settings so that the lighting wouldn't be so much of an issue. Might be a good idea for those of you readers who have less vision.
Hi,
I have no vision, and was wondering how it would be possible for me to even take pictures. I remember I tried aiming a camera at a person's voice, but for whatever reason, that didn't turn out very well. Oh well...
Any suggestions?
i'm a amature photographer. i have low vision. i went to a blind photography workshop. the concept i learn from this blind professional photographer is quite interesting, but yet it works.
put your camera at your forhead, and treate it like a tripod. you will get almost a perfect picture for whatever your eyes are looking, or suppose to look.
another trick is to put your camera on your chest, you will get a great portrat pictures for everything that you are standing facing on, about 3 to 5 feet in front of you.
it is odd, specially putting your camera on the forehead, but it does work, i took some very interesting pictures from it, very interesting composission. and of course, putting your camera in front of your chest just plain weird, but it took some very nice portrat pictures of my friends, or the objects in front of me without chopping off their legs or head.
i have 3 digital cameras so far, one from Canon, one Nikon, and one Olympus. I'm working towards my first ever DSLR Camera.
Wow this is an interesting topic. I have never thought about taking pictures before. I to have always wondered how I would do that being blind. a friend made me take a picture once. She aimed the camera where she wanted it and then had me take it. I guess it came out okay but that was the only time I have done that. I will have to play more with a camera lol.
Oh goodness, I never thought this topic would conjure any form of response. I won't lie, I'm pretty excited.
It sounds like what Joanne is saying about the aiming methods was pretty good advice, although because I had sight before, I never thought of it that way. One thing I will tell you guys is, if and when you decide to experiment, think of the camera as an eyeball or a head. When I say this, I mean, your eyes and head roll on a sort of axis when you want to quote-unquote "look" at something. I started out thinking that if I wanted to take a picture of something that was up higher than my focus, I had to keep holding the camera straight and move it literally upward; but for the most part, that is not the case. If you want to adjust your view, keep your camera at about eye level still, but slightly tilt it backward to go up, as if to crane your neck upward toward something; tilt it slightly downward as if to look down at smoething; and shift it left and right at an angle as if to turn your head. Does this make sense? If not, I can try to find another eay to describe it. It's so much easier hand-over-hand.
For those of you with vision, if you are having troubgle finding the focal point of your picture, placing your hand on the object you wish to capture and looking for it in the view-finder, aligning the camera to accommodate your hand, and then removing your hand while maintaining the camera's new position, should help as well. I can't see the display screen anymore and I still use this method automatically.
To be honest i'm baffled. What do you get out of it if I may ask? I'd have thought that the majority of pictures taken are likely to be poor to say the least. And when you do a good one, you'd only know if you were told. I'm not trying to make light of it but to me it seems rather pointless.
Its kind of like when my sister watches things like gymnastics and the strictly come dancing shows. All she gets out of it are the crowds responses and the judges comments. Yet she loves it.
I'm sure people would be highly impressed to see a blind photographer take a good quality picture. But on the whole that's really not that likely to happen that often, and without some form of instruction from a sighted companion is it?
I will say that yes, it is frustrating at times. And I am grieving no longer really being able to see my own work. And it can be frustrating having to have others help me sort out what was what. But I did learn photography stuff when I could see better, so most of my shots turn out very well, actually. I go through phases as to if I take pictures a lot or not. It's not that I'm trying to be sighted, it's just that it's something I can still do and a way I can express myself and connect with the tside world. Hopefully that clarifies something.
Oh wow! thought I would find blind photographers on here!
I take pictures for fun and paint for fun. I am totlly blind. It's great fun expressing oneself.
There is a website www.blindphotographyschool.org I think which has tutorials on how to take pictures.
Hi guys,
I've only got light perception but for this purpose would be considered totally blind. I've attempted to take a few pics with my iPhone and sometimes have been told that they're not too bad but it's of course hard to know if people are just trying to be nice to me.
If I ever heard of a course here for blind photographers, I would totally be in it. But in the meantime, thanks for all your tips and tricks and I'll def keep an eye (pardon the pun :) on this thread. :)
The good thing about the VO option on the iPhone now, and most prob the other IOS devices is that there's a focus beep we hear now; makes it a bit easier I think.
I've attempted to upload pics of both my guide dogs before on FB etc but wouldn't dream of much else at the moment.
Oh, I had taken a photo of my piano for some weird reason about a month ago and as I was going through unlabeled pics with a work mate last week, they recognized it was a piano; win. :)
I have used tap tap see for taking pictures. I can see potential for blind photographers- taking the photo as a draft if you will with tap tap see and then using a better camera to get the final cut. I do like taptap see- very useful . But I digress.
I take pictures on my i phone sometimes. It was one of the first things I did when I got it a few months ago. The only pics that have turned out good thogh are the one's that a sighted person has helped me with. Its fun trying to get a good pic though.