p.14 #1 · What Are Some Reactions You've Gotten When Shooting With A White Lens?
Size has more to do with it.. my 120-300 gets just as many as my 400 2.8.
Usually these
Compensating for something?
Yeah Distance
Why do you use such a large lens
To get farther away from stupid questions
and one from one of my soccer moms with her husband standing by us,
Man his is huge, I wish yours was that big..... we all looked down.. and walk away crying we were laughing so hard.
p.14 #2 · What Are Some Reactions You've Gotten When Shooting With A White Lens?
regor601 wrote:
She probably got better pics than I did but that tells you that "professional" fits a lot of circumstances
FWIW, personally being a professional in my books means that someone charges pro prices... it NEVER ever guarantees that his or her skill level matches the prices he or her is charging.... ( though it should be...)
Another way to look at it is that being a professional means people are willing to pay someone pro prices to take photos and as said before...it NEVER ever guarantees that his or her skill level matches the prices he or her is charging....( though it should be...)
p.14 #4 · What Are Some Reactions You've Gotten When Shooting With A White Lens?
One I haven't seen yet...which I thought was funny as hell...
My first day I was shooting sports for my current job (yearbook photographer), I was using my 300mm 4L IS, and some parent came up to me and asked (seriously!) if i was using a 1200mm lens...
I get a lot of stares when I have the 200 1.8 or 300mm 2.8 out, especially if i'm using an extender... All my cameras have grips, so it looks big to most people...
It does seem that lenses with a flower hood get a lot of stares, though anything large (body and/or lens) gets looks. I find that if there are extra cables hanging off the camera (power packs and off-camera shoes for example) that gets a lot of looks.
Few days ago I was shooting the moon, and had the 20D, 300 2.8L, 2x and 1.4x extenders on...I was in a parking lot and people in cars driving by would slow down and stare...
I usually get stopped 1-3 times a day when I'm out with a camera. I get people asking all the above dumb questions, a few people who are genuinely interested in photography, and of course the people with point and shoots... I have people ask if i'll take their pictures, pose randomly for me, and try and get the same picture (usually with a P&S lol)
p.14 #5 · What Are Some Reactions You've Gotten When Shooting With A White Lens?
While shooting trains at a popular grade crossing with a 70-200 2.8...lady in car rolls down window and casually asks "Can you wait until I fix my hair? I've never been on TV before."
p.14 #6 · What Are Some Reactions You've Gotten When Shooting With A White Lens?
Michael H wrote:
Funny this thread came up. I was at the zoo a few weeks ago, and had many of the common comments with my MK2 and 300/2.8. I lost it however with this one...
I'm tucked in a corner watching the Gorillas, and all the sudden I hear, in this amazingly sultry voice..."Oooo, he's got a real nice, big one!" As hard as I tried to maintain it, I turn around to the woman and just flat out lost it laughing right at the moment she realized what she just said. It was priceless watching her turn the nicest shade of crimson. That was probably the best encounter in 20+ years of shooting.
p.14 #7 · What Are Some Reactions You've Gotten When Shooting With A White Lens?
My one and only experience with a BIG white lens was borrowing one from a very trusting friend a few months back when I went with him to an auto race track... apart from me and him everyone else was shooting with Nikons and the rection was that smug "Canon Losers" down the nose glance !
p.14 #8 · What Are Some Reactions You've Gotten When Shooting With A White Lens?
haha hilarious.
personally people look at me regardless of the color of my lens becuase i either have my 20D with grip or 1dmkII. And if im really out in public, i prolly have my tripod/monopod with me. So the whole set up just makes ppl curious.
p.14 #9 · What Are Some Reactions You've Gotten When Shooting With A White Lens?
SoToMoSo wrote:
haha hilarious.
personally people look at me regardless of the color of my lens becuase i either have my 20D with grip or 1dmkII. And if im really out in public, i prolly have my tripod/monopod with me. So the whole set up just makes ppl curious.
ever tried setting up a macro rig in a public place... tripod with extension bar set to horizontal, 2 or 3 flashes, soft box, flags, reflectors... and people start to crowd around you and your assistant (that was me - the assistant) and want to know what your doing... like your some sort of CSI team looking for clues!
Ever been an assistant at a car shoot? .... driving a million dollar Maserati or Rolls Royce towards the photographer ... at like 20 KPH ... back and forth back and forth... then you get out and and you're dressed like a poor student (which infact I was) ... comments like (hushed behind hands) "drug dealer"... or "wow I thought that lens over there was over compensating"
personally I'm used to people staring at me - particularly in asia... even in Japan where they generally don't point and stare, I'm big (tall/wide) and ugly (no, really, I'm ugly) and look like a 1% biker who's some how lost his tattoos so I guess sicking a camera up to my face isn't going to change their reaction much anyway
p.14 #10 · What Are Some Reactions You've Gotten When Shooting With A White Lens?
EOS20 wrote:
Yeh I bet the dad woulden't have that attitude if all that gear comes crashing down on the kids would he? 600f/4 isen't exactly the lens I would want crashing down on top of
I've been in these sorts of situations but with my old (new back then) sports motorcycle...
I've come out of a shop or a cafe to find some kids crawling over my Ducati or Honda twisting the throttle and banging the mirrors like it was some coin operated ride and the the parents standing by - bail them up about it and the usual comment was something like "well it's parked in apublic place so they can do that"
I'd remind them that their car was probably parked in a public place and that if they could just point it out then I'd get my kids to crawl all over their car and jump up and down on the bonnet and roof" then watch the horror in their face at the thought of that.
then I tell them that the bike is probably worth twice what their shitbox car is worth and that if one of their kids knocked it over (Ducati's have a hair triger on their kick stand) that it would probably kill their precious kid or at least leave him in a wheelchair for life.
I guess people don' like having their stupidity pointed out to them like that (shrug)
p.14 #12 · What Are Some Reactions You've Gotten When Shooting With A White Lens?
abam wrote:
this thread has no point. why do people care how others react to their white lenses (outside of a possible mugging situation)?
of course it's pointless.. just like 99% of all the best things in life are also "pointless"....
anyway it's just like some rev heads shooting stories over a beer about motorcycles & cars and the time one of them just aced a date with a girl'cause she like his Benelli Tornado or computer geeks talking about the latest Intel chip and how people react when they pull out their 17" screen laptop.
p.14 #13 · What Are Some Reactions You've Gotten When Shooting With A White Lens?
abam wrote:
this thread has no point. why do people care how others react to their white lenses (outside of a possible mugging situation)?
because its funny?
at the zoo this past week my friend and i were talking about what our story would be if someone talked to us, we wanted something funny
10 seconds later a lady walked up to us and asked us what were doing with big cameras and if we do this for a living
p.14 #14 · What Are Some Reactions You've Gotten When Shooting With A White Lens?
abam wrote:
this thread has no point. why do people care how others react to their white lenses (outside of a possible mugging situation)?
Probably tells his kids there is no Santa or easter bunny too.. what is the point of a fat guy in a red suit giving out presents or a bunny bringing and hiding eggs.....lol
p.14 #17 · What Are Some Reactions You've Gotten When Shooting With A White Lens?
I was at a campfire and was using my 1D MKIIN with 85 1.2L. I was getting some great shots. Then a nice lady came up and said "your flash is not working, would you like to borrow my camera?" and offered me her P&S. I thanked her and declined.
p.14 #18 · What Are Some Reactions You've Gotten When Shooting With A White Lens?
marxzed wrote:
Later, I was just starting to pull my gear together, the 600 is still up on the full Wimberley, and I had my back turned for a second - 3 kids, probably 4 to 9, come rushing up and CRAWL under the damn tripod, grabbing the legs, peering out at the seals through the fence! I couldn't believe it, and here comes dad, "Oh ya, kids, look you can see that baby now".....Dad's just like 'no big deal, it's public space, we got a right'.....or something, I don't know what the heck he was thinking.
I grabbed the tripod and just waited, the kids didn't know any better......
Same thing in France last summer. Some silly dad and mom were lettin thier kids climb on my cayyene turbo like it were a jungle gym. Ya I guess they may think I have a lot of money because of the car and could easily pay for a new one or to clean the scratches thier metal-bullet jeans were scratching on. But why hassle me? I dont have time to get it fixed, and I know its value, thats why it was shining and not dirty.
As hard as I tried to maintain it, I turn around to the woman and just flat out lost it laughing right at the moment she realized what she just said. It was priceless watching her turn the nicest shade
That was probably the best encounter in 20+ years of shooting. 
