What You've done for the "Shot"

[Edborstein]

What have you had to do to get that one special "shot? Or, at least TRY to get that one shot!

One of mine was actually yesterday. I tried to get some close-ups of some leaves in a tree. Being short, I couldn't quite reach. I decided to hand my camera to a friend. Climb up the tree, and have him hand me the camera. It wasn't the most comfortable position, so I just snapped a few shots and tried to get down. The friend had walked away, to say hi to someone else down the street. I ended up jumping down from the tree, and rolling my ankle. And the shot's didn't even come out that well!

How crazy have YOU gotten, for the sake of photography.

[deadgirlreading]

I was trying to get this shot of the crazy orange bugs a few years ago and I had to climb on top of a railing from a raised walkway three stories above the ground.

[Jim Bryant]

Hang off helicopters, from side of ships, to being on top of Seattle's Space Needle. I guess about anything it takes.

[Photologyst]

It was the last night in a small Italian village on Lago di Como that supposedly had a “genuine” Roman bridge, which I never did locate. Got dressed up for once to go to dinner. Walked through the village photographing all the way. Met a villager via her photogenic dog. Even though she was prepping for a party, she offered to take me to the Roman bridge — not far by Italian standards. Walked a long, long way with a very bum knee over a cobbled dirt path. Finally got to the bridge as rain was threatening. Took a number of photos from very bad angles, but it was all that was possible at that time. Better angles were from the water and I had no boat.

Came the deluge!

The water ran down the stone steps of the village like a giant water fall. Waited under the bridge for the rain to abate, shooting all the time. Had to climb the hundreds of stone village steps to get to the road, then climb a construction fence—that was supposed to be open—in my dress clothes. (I haven’t climbed a fence in decades.)

Got totally soaked! My cantaloupe colored jacket now had a permanent black mark from the camera strap.

Had a lovely dinner in the village restaurant with its wood-burning pizza oven. Was invited for dessert at the kind villager’s home @ 11 p. m. Got a recipe for Limoncello from one of the other guests and more charming doggie photos.

What a wonderful day!

Due to having aggravated the knee injuries, I could literally not walk the next day nor in the next country where I was the designated photographer at a meeting. Took photos anyway.

It took several years for the knees to recover.

All of these photos were taken with my old Nikon D70s in very dark conditions without flash.

Roman bridge just before the storm



Spike, the fox terrier




Limoncello



The greatest pizza!

Pizza___Tre_Rose__Nesso__Italy | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Wood fired pizza oven:

Pizza_Oven__Nesso__Italy | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

[Christian Michael]

Actually the most planning I have done for a single photo (to date) was about 18 months ago and took about 4 weeks to plan.

Nothing more than fun, the girlfriends favorite movie is Pulp Fiction and has always wanted to pose for a mock Pulp Fiction poster.

SOOOOoooooo we decided to give it a go. It took several weeks to get the bed linen, the wig, the shoes, shop for a look a like toy gun (finally borrowed a real one from a friend at work) get the lamp and the blinds and two hrs to set up the room.

The shoot……took 15 minutes lol but we had fun.

Believe it or not there are several versions of this poster in circulation, with guns in different positions, different cigarette boxes and different book covers, all in various positions. We got as close to the one we found as physically possible. This is our rendition.

We actually had it blown up to poster size and its now hanging in the hall way :0).

[mad editor]

Climbed up on a pedestal table (that turned out to be a SHAKY pedestal table) when I was a guest at my friend's daughter's Sweet 16 party (she asked me to take some shots) That was in the day of film and I was using my manual SLR camera. I was nearly killed when the table began to topple over with me on it - I must add I was wearing a dress and high heels at the time! I was lucky there were a few kind souls standing nearby who saved me from a trip to the ER. But I got a great shot of all the kids in a huddle around the birthday girl dancing in the center of the group!
There certainly are others but this is my favorite.

[ravncat]

Over the guard rail, down and across the river, up the Glenn wall , then had to hang from a tree with one foot on the wall, the other foot in the air and take the shot with Dslr, left handed.

I should post that shot, it's maybe the craziest I've done. Rushing to the top of a mountain with a ton of gear because of light is fairly common, but I'm starting to feel it alot now.

[Chaotic Beds]

Wow, cool stuff everyone... The most I've done is lay down on some pointy rocks, or brave the mosquito swarms in a mosquito-infested forest on a humid 90-something degree day... Not anything particularly out of the ordinary, heh.

Originally Posted by Photologyst

Got a recipe for Limoncello from one of the other guests

Do you still know it?

I used to know someone that made some... I remember him boiling Everclear liquor with lemon peels and sugar, then letting it sit for days... I don't remember what to do with it after that (if anything?)... But it was very very good - virtually no alcohol taste.

[Photologyst]

Originally Posted by Chaotic Beds

Do you still know it?

I used to know someone that made some... I remember him boiling Everclear liquor with lemon peels and sugar, then letting it sit for days... I don't remember what to do with it after that (if anything?)... But it was very very good - virtually no alcohol taste.

True, Italian Limoncello is a serious, alcoholic digestif that is drunk with coffee after a meal in very small quantities. If you boil alcohol—that’s that—you negate the healthful properties.

You soak the lemon peels in Everclear for a long time, weeks or months until they look like chips. This extracts the fragrant lemon oils. Then that mixture is strained, mixed with a simple syrup and poured into sterilized bottles.

I’ll fish out the recipe. It’s a really authentic one. I’ve tried others, but the proportions must be correct. Do not use vodka or grappa!

We have lots in the freezer to give as gifts. Makes a wonderful long drink for brunch when mixed with bubbly.

[Chaotic Beds]

Originally Posted by Photologyst

True, Italian Limoncello is a serious, alcoholic digestif that is drunk with coffee after a meal in very small quantities. If you boil alcohol—that’s that—you negate the healthful properties.

You soak the lemon peels in Everclear for a long time, weeks or months until they look like chips. This extracts the fragrant lemon oils. Then that mixture is strained, mixed with a simple syrup and poured into sterilized bottles.

I’ll fish out the recipe. It’s a really authentic one. I’ve tried others, but the proportions must be correct. Do not use vodka or grappa!

We have lots in the freezer to give as gifts. Makes a wonderful long drink for brunch when mixed with bubbly.

No need to fish out the exact recipe, but thank you!... I just stick to a glass of wine or a beer when I drink at home. The part I forgot to type was that I was mostly interested in comparing the Italian version to what I assumed was an Americanized version.

I'm not exactly sure this guy boiled it... but it was heated on a stove, probably not to boiling now that I think about it... Not sure on the soak time either, it somewhere in the 1 week range, possibly 2-3 weeks?

This guy wasn't doing it for traditional Italian digestif purposes, though. He was the kind of guy that revels in making lesser-known mixed drinks, for the main purpose of getting drunk on cool drinks. He also introduced me to the Superman shot - it tasted like Superman ice cream