Pick the Right Friends… (Morning Musings 9/29/14)

G Dan Mitchell Photographing in the Sierra Nevada
G Dan Mitchell Photographing in the Sierra Nevada

If you are ever in the wilderness and you want someone to take a photograph of you, you could hand your smartphone to the nearest person and hope for the best. However, I have a few suggestions (slightly tongue-in-cheek) that might improve the odds:

  1. Arrange to be in the company of one of the best landscape photographers working today. (Yeah, that’s you, Charlie Cramer.)
  2. Make a photograph of him at work and hope that this inspires him to photograph you doing the same thing.
  3. Be sure to place yourself so that dramatic golden hour light hits you in partial profile.
  4. Be sure to position yourself against an appropriate background.
  5. Gaze attentively and thoughtfully into the distance. ;-)

Bonus hint: Be sure to level your tripod first, or your photographer friends may never let you live it down. ;-)

Here’s a photograph of Charlie at work, too

Photographer Charles Cramer
Photographer Charles Cramer

In all seriousness, when you are out shooting, do photograph your fellow photographers. Each of us needs photographs of ourselves, and a photograph by a friend (or of a friend) is a special thing.

Thanks, Charlie!

Morning Musings are somewhat irregular posts in which I write about whatever is on my mind at the moment.


G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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4 thoughts on “Pick the Right Friends… (Morning Musings 9/29/14)”

  1. Nice light on you Dan!
    Lol, about leveling the camera and tripod head!
    I think the image of Charlie needs a few more curve levels applied in PS. ;) Charlie is the master of curves in PS as well as great landscape photogragher!

    1. Wayne, I handed an original copy off the Charlie for his own use… and he already did all of that and more. (The light on his face was too red — the same warm light that you see in my photograph, reflected back at him from the reddish rocks.)

      But yes, The Curve Master.

      Dan

      1. Dan, it is a great shot of Charlie, I was just trying to make a sort of inside joke about the curve adjustment layers in PS since everyone who has taken his excellent printing workshop knows that he loves using curve adjustments. :)
        Looks like you all had a fun photo trip!

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