HOWTO Take A Camera Toss Snapshot

O_M

#1 – 4:10 PM June 6, 2009

...This is a variation on a technique that's great for shooting people dancing, especially entertainers who are "pole dancers". You set for a long exposure, click the shutter while the dancers move for about a half a second, then swiftly angle and jiggle the camera upwards to the blinking disco lights above them. It takes a little practice, but you can produce some really interesting random effects without having to frack with Photoshop masks & layers.

Steven Leckart

#2 – 4:30 PM June 6, 2009

O_M: I'm sure our readers would appreciate a link to any pole dancing examples. ;)

Garr

#3 – 1:47 AM June 7, 2009

Steven, you have a nasty opinion of your readers :)

O_M

#4 – 1:21 PM June 7, 2009

...Garr, you assume that everyone on Boing Boing is an unenlightened prude. Shame on you.

hemidemisemiquaver

#5 – 7:38 PM June 7, 2009

Sounds suspiciously like it was invented by the companies waiting at the ready with new cameras to replace the ones you break doing this.

flatfive

#6 – 8:30 PM June 7, 2009

Better yet, O_M, where do you find a place with pole dancers that allows photography?

O_M

#7 – 9:27 PM June 7, 2009

"Better yet, O_M, where do you find a place with pole dancers that allows photography?"

...Easy. Just get yourself a job running the website for a GC, and then don't do any shots nuder than a string bikini. After all, you don't want to give away the goods for free :-P