Arrested

So Busted, originally uploaded by Lindsay Beyerstein.

A little after 11, a drunk flipped his car on Smith Street in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. The vehicle skidded out of control at the corner of Smith and President, sideswiped a parked van, and ricocheted off to the other side of the street. As you can see, it flipped over somewhere in that process.

Amazingly, no one was seriously injured.

The cops arrested the driver as soon as he managed to wriggle out the drivers' side window.

Comments

[pecunium]

As a technical note; bracing the camera will, usually, get rid of the streak effect. I'd use the corner of a window, or some such.

TK

[Lindsay Beyerstein]

There's a funny backstory to the streakiness. The radiator in front of the window went on just before the accident happened. So, I had to lean over the hot radiator to shoot out the window. The only way to lean out far enough without touching the radiator was to stand on one foot, throw my other leg backwards for balance, and sort of lie on the window ledge.

So, I had a nice solid brace for my elbows, but I didn't execute the one-legged-tiptoe stance as smoothly as I should have. I've got the elbow abrasions to prove it.

[pecunium]

Ah... exigent circumstance.

Here's a trick (learned from years spent shooting things other than cameras).

Use the strap. The idea is to brace up your body and the camera, using the strap as the support.

Grab the camera in the the normal way, with the strap hanging down.

Pinch your elbows together, so they both enter the open area of the strap.

Open your elbows, so the strap is tight across them, bring the camera to your eye, which will cause the strap to be tight across your chest.

There should be some muscular tension (isometric) of your arms against the strap.

It usually gets one between 1/2,and 1 stop extra.

It also takes some practice, and you may have to adjust the strap legnth.

[RobW]

Slow news day, huh?

[Bizz]

bracing the camera will, usually, get rid of the streak effect.
There should be some muscular tension (isometric) of your arms against the strap.

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