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Cherry_F said:
J A C S said:
Cherry_F said:
J A C S said:
I was taking a photo of a beach in Saint Lucia with a fisheye lens, hard not to recognize it if you know something about lenses.
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Interesting point. If questioning randomly 100 people, I wonder how many know something about lenses ( not to mention fish-eyes)
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I did not imply that I would expect the guard to know but I can see that one can take it this way.
Cherry_F said:
Cherry_F said:
I was a few hundred meters away, trying to fit one of the Pitons in the frame. A security guard from a nearby hotel approached me and asked me with a smile on his face: "Taking pictures of the ladies?" The "ladies" were barely covering more than a few pixels each on my photo...
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Did you show your pictures to this guard? I would have liked to see his reaction.
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Yes, he turned out to be a friendly guy, and we chatted a bit. I showed the photos to him, and he was amused. Then I explained to him what kind of lens I would need for the alleged purpose.
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I would certainly not infer that this guy was stupid. Actually, a few weeks ago, as I was taking pics of a brand-new building, I happened to have a nice discussion about photography with one of the security guards.
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I once asked the porter in front of a station if it was OK to take a picture. He went and posed elegantly in just the right place.

When I showed him the image on the LCD, he said “but I’m in it!”. He thought he was standing out of the way but I was using a 10mm MFT lens. I offered to delete the image but he was happy.

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After taking photo of my grandmother with a film camera, she asked "can you send it to me dear?"
 
OldSchoolNewSchool said:
FrancoD said:
Not sure if this was funny or sad but on my way around the reserve we walk a few times a week to take bird photos, a guy stopped his bike to point to a plane way up at almost full altitude (that is about two pixels wide...) to ask if with my lens i could get its number... one of those that believe in "chemical trails" so he wanted to report the plane.
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Nice!
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You can report them while still on the ground. Make it easy on yourself.
 
lost alaskan said:
OldSchoolNewSchool said:
FrancoD said:
Not sure if this was funny or sad but on my way around the reserve we walk a few times a week to take bird photos, a guy stopped his bike to point to a plane way up at almost full altitude (that is about two pixels wide...) to ask if with my lens i could get its number... one of those that believe in "chemical trails" so he wanted to report the plane.
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Nice!
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You can report them while still on the ground. Make it easy on yourself.
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I don't get that...
 
FrancoD said:
lost alaskan said:
OldSchoolNewSchool said:
FrancoD said:
Not sure if this was funny or sad but on my way around the reserve we walk a few times a week to take bird photos, a guy stopped his bike to point to a plane way up at almost full altitude (that is about two pixels wide...) to ask if with my lens i could get its number... one of those that believe in "chemical trails" so he wanted to report the plane.
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Nice!
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You can report them while still on the ground. Make it easy on yourself.
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I don't get that...
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And that other person could use their cell phone to document the numbers as well.
 
WilyKit said:
A 5 or 6 year old boy asked me "can you also see what's behind the door?" when I was showing him some serious zooming. He asked it cautiously in a really cute and funny way. I kept myself from laughing because I didn't want to embarass him and I said "I wish, but no, that's not possible". I knew why he felt comfortable to ask something like that, even though it seems far-fetched. Because the huge "super zoom" range really seems kind of magical, especially to a young boy, so who knows, maybe it can even do that, that would be cool, I gotta ask.
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If your lens is bright enough, you've got an X-ray lamp and your sensor is an X-ray film, then his question can be answered positively :)
 
TOTodd said:
OldSchoolNewSchool said:
What's the funniest photography-related question asked of you by a non-photographer?

Mine is this, asked by a good friend, bless her innocent heart:

"So, Robert, do you have all the lenses you want?"
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That seems like a perfectly understandable question from a non-photographer. Nothing funny at all.
TOTodd said:
It took everything I could do to keep from answering her question with another question: "Is the sky purple with pink polka dots?"
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Good. That would have been a very condescending response.
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FrancoD said:
lost alaskan said:
OldSchoolNewSchool said:
FrancoD said:
Not sure if this was funny or sad but on my way around the reserve we walk a few times a week to take bird photos, a guy stopped his bike to point to a plane way up at almost full altitude (that is about two pixels wide...) to ask if with my lens i could get its number... one of those that believe in "chemical trails" so he wanted to report the plane.
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Nice!
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You can report them while still on the ground. Make it easy on yourself.
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I don't get that...
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Referring to the chem trail guy.
 
lost alaskan said:
FrancoD said:
lost alaskan said:
OldSchoolNewSchool said:
FrancoD said:
Not sure if this was funny or sad but on my way around the reserve we walk a few times a week to take bird photos, a guy stopped his bike to point to a plane way up at almost full altitude (that is about two pixels wide...) to ask if with my lens i could get its number... one of those that believe in "chemical trails" so he wanted to report the plane.
Click to expand...
Nice!
Click to expand...
You can report them while still on the ground. Make it easy on yourself.
Click to expand...
I don't get that...
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Referring to the chem trail guy.
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As a retired aircraft maintenance engineer with 45 years experience I can tell you that trail is chemical it's mainly H2O. Better known as water. I can also tell you that there are no tanks for chemicals, other than fuel. I would be nearly impossible to install any kind of tank without type rated engineers knowing about it.

In the UK I suppose he could be sectioned (detained under the mental health act) but we're rather into people like that, we produced Screaming Lord Such (a "politician") after all.
 
ahaslett said:
Cherry_F said:
J A C S said:
Cherry_F said:
J A C S said:
I was taking a photo of a beach in Saint Lucia with a fisheye lens, hard not to recognize it if you know something about lenses.
Click to expand...
Interesting point. If questioning randomly 100 people, I wonder how many know something about lenses ( not to mention fish-eyes)
Click to expand...
I did not imply that I would expect the guard to know but I can see that one can take it this way.
ahaslett said:
ahaslett said:
I was a few hundred meters away, trying to fit one of the Pitons in the frame. A security guard from a nearby hotel approached me and asked me with a smile on his face: "Taking pictures of the ladies?" The "ladies" were barely covering more than a few pixels each on my photo...
Click to expand...
Did you show your pictures to this guard? I would have liked to see his reaction.
Click to expand...
Yes, he turned out to be a friendly guy, and we chatted a bit. I showed the photos to him, and he was amused. Then I explained to him what kind of lens I would need for the alleged purpose.
Click to expand...
I would certainly not infer that this guy was stupid. Actually, a few weeks ago, as I was taking pics of a brand-new building, I happened to have a nice discussion about photography with one of the security guards.
Click to expand...
I once asked the porter in front of a station if it was OK to take a picture. He went and posed elegantly in just the right place.

When I showed him the image on the LCD, he said “but I’m in it!”. He thought he was standing out of the way but I was using a 10mm MFT lens. I offered to delete the image but he was happy.

A
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So why did he pose if he thought he was out of the frame?
 
RaysJ said:
ahaslett said:
Cherry_F said:
J A C S said:
Cherry_F said:
J A C S said:
I was taking a photo of a beach in Saint Lucia with a fisheye lens, hard not to recognize it if you know something about lenses.
Click to expand...
Interesting point. If questioning randomly 100 people, I wonder how many know something about lenses ( not to mention fish-eyes)
Click to expand...
I did not imply that I would expect the guard to know but I can see that one can take it this way.
RaysJ said:
RaysJ said:
I was a few hundred meters away, trying to fit one of the Pitons in the frame. A security guard from a nearby hotel approached me and asked me with a smile on his face: "Taking pictures of the ladies?" The "ladies" were barely covering more than a few pixels each on my photo...
Click to expand...
Did you show your pictures to this guard? I would have liked to see his reaction.
Click to expand...
Yes, he turned out to be a friendly guy, and we chatted a bit. I showed the photos to him, and he was amused. Then I explained to him what kind of lens I would need for the alleged purpose.
Click to expand...
I would certainly not infer that this guy was stupid. Actually, a few weeks ago, as I was taking pics of a brand-new building, I happened to have a nice discussion about photography with one of the security guards.
Click to expand...
I once asked the porter in front of a station if it was OK to take a picture. He went and posed elegantly in just the right place.

When I showed him the image on the LCD, he said “but I’m in it!”. He thought he was standing out of the way but I was using a 10mm MFT lens. I offered to delete the image but he was happy.

A
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So why did he pose if he thought he was out of the frame?
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I only thought he was posing - he had natural grace.

A
 
ahaslett said:
RaysJ said:
ahaslett said:
Cherry_F said:
J A C S said:
Cherry_F said:
J A C S said:
I was taking a photo of a beach in Saint Lucia with a fisheye lens, hard not to recognize it if you know something about lenses.
Click to expand...
Interesting point. If questioning randomly 100 people, I wonder how many know something about lenses ( not to mention fish-eyes)
Click to expand...
I did not imply that I would expect the guard to know but I can see that one can take it this way.
ahaslett said:
ahaslett said:
I was a few hundred meters away, trying to fit one of the Pitons in the frame. A security guard from a nearby hotel approached me and asked me with a smile on his face: "Taking pictures of the ladies?" The "ladies" were barely covering more than a few pixels each on my photo...
Click to expand...
Did you show your pictures to this guard? I would have liked to see his reaction.
Click to expand...
Yes, he turned out to be a friendly guy, and we chatted a bit. I showed the photos to him, and he was amused. Then I explained to him what kind of lens I would need for the alleged purpose.
Click to expand...
I would certainly not infer that this guy was stupid. Actually, a few weeks ago, as I was taking pics of a brand-new building, I happened to have a nice discussion about photography with one of the security guards.
Click to expand...
I once asked the porter in front of a station if it was OK to take a picture. He went and posed elegantly in just the right place.

When I showed him the image on the LCD, he said “but I’m in it!”. He thought he was standing out of the way but I was using a 10mm MFT lens. I offered to delete the image but he was happy.

A
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So why did he pose if he thought he was out of the frame?
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I only thought he was posing - he had natural grace.

A
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I see. People posing often don't look natural.
 
This story goes back to about 1965, in a BX in or near Vietnam. A young and low ranking troop had scraped together enough to pay for "the camera of his dreams." Problem: They sold like hotcakes and were never available. Solution: The dude had a buddy who worked at the BX and was to call when the next arrival of the camera arrived.

Our troop got the call, grabbed hhis cash, and raced to the BX...only to find an older, higher ranking guy had just beat him to camera counter and was about to buy the precious camera. The older dude asked the clerk, "Are you sure I can take both black and white and color pictures with this?"

More sad than funny.
 
Technically not asked of me, but asked in my presence.

When I was starting out I took a photo course/walk in Central Park and a member of the class asked the instructor "what camera should I buy?" She was on her fifth camera in the last month, had a trip coming up, and just needed to know what transaction would give her great photos.

No, she did not know what the exposure triangle was.
 
Direct Questions:

(Coworker when hearing that I enjoyed photography as a hobby:) "Oh, but how are you going to make money off of it?"

(My lovely mother, every time I shoot anything in nature:) "Why aren't you submitting this to National Geographic?"

(Friends:) "But you take great insect photos! Why don't you think that you would be good as our family / engagement /Big Event photographer?"
 
... because I worked in photo retail from Aug 1992 thru' mid-March 2020 ;-)

Cheers,

Jack
 
GeoffRG said:
lost alaskan said:
FrancoD said:
lost alaskan said:
OldSchoolNewSchool said:
FrancoD said:
Not sure if this was funny or sad but on my way around the reserve we walk a few times a week to take bird photos, a guy stopped his bike to point to a plane way up at almost full altitude (that is about two pixels wide...) to ask if with my lens i could get its number... one of those that believe in "chemical trails" so he wanted to report the plane.
Click to expand...
Nice!
Click to expand...
You can report them while still on the ground. Make it easy on yourself.
Click to expand...
I don't get that...
Click to expand...
Referring to the chem trail guy.
Click to expand...
As a retired aircraft maintenance engineer with 45 years experience I can tell you that trail is chemical it's mainly H2O. Better known as water. I can also tell you that there are no tanks for chemicals, other than fuel. I would be nearly impossible to install any kind of tank without type rated engineers knowing about it.

In the UK I suppose he could be sectioned (detained under the mental health act) but we're rather into people like that, we produced Screaming Lord Such (a "politician") after all.
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Well, that's the visible part that's water.

There's also invisible chemical.

.

.

.

CO2

.

.

.

So it is sparkling water hanging there

(Not actually, but let me believe in my own kind of chem trail 😅)
 
was, when I had a new portrait studio with walls full of pics:

Customer: Did you take any of these photographs?

Me: I took ALL of them - er, who else did you think might have taken them?

Customer: Oh, I thought Kodak must have sent them to you.

I suppose it was sort-of compliment really.....
 
philm5d said:
was, when I had a new portrait studio with walls full of pics:

Customer: Did you take any of these photographs?

Me: I took ALL of them - er, who else did you think might have taken them?

Customer: Oh, I thought Kodak must have sent them to you.

I suppose it was sort-of compliment really.....
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Stupidity can be funny. :-)
 
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