Oops, shooting from the hip
With the games nearly over I was looking at some of the pictures I had taken and as I went through some of the files I found, usually at the beginning or the end of a card, the accidental images. These are the images that occur when my cameras are slung on my shoulder and sitting on my hip.
For the games I carry a backpack with my laptop and other odds and ends, my shoulder bag that has batteries and a couple pouches to put lenses in, and pull a rolly case with a 300 + 400/500 (depends on what the major event is that day), a monopod and two camera bodies (one with a 16-35, the other a 70-200).
The batteries are so good now that I usually leave the cameras on all the time, that way they are ready to go!
It also means that as the mountain of gear moves around me sometimes the shutter ends up firing on one of bodies.
Here are a few of my favourite accidental images.
Outside the Stadium in Tainjin, where women's soccer was being played.
Getting off the golf cart shuttle that takes us from our building in the media village to the shuttle to the Main Press Centre. Those legs belong to Jean Levac of the Ottawa Citizen.
On the subway in Beijing - I'm a married guy, I don't know who those legs belong to!
-Steve Russell
On the subway in Beijing - I'm a married guy, I don't know who those legs belong to!
-Steve Russell
They definitely don't belong to your wife!
-Mrs Russell
Posted by: Gilliane Russell | August 23, 2008 at 10:59 PM