Are you a left-eyed or right-eyed shooter?
posted by Mike Colón at 1:45 AM
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
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i believe i'm left...
I have always been a right eye shooter. I have tried to shoot with my left but it just feels so strange.
Left eye ;-)
Right
Right eye and I get my nose print all over my LCD...my assistant shoots left.
I always hold the camera up to my right eye, so that makes me a right-eyed shooter.
I use either eye depending on backilighting at sunlight for sports or weddings. Right eye when shooting basball to see fly balls coming at me or any field action sports. I guess it's mostly whatever I feel comfortable at the time.
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Andy
right eye. I open my left eye often to see what else is going on though.
I'm a right eye shooter. Funny I had to pick up my camera to figure it out, never really thought about it.
Left, which is more comfortable to me since I use my left shoulder/arm to stabilize the camera in lower light conditions.
hahaha good question. I'm always thinking about it. I shoot mostly with the left eye and I'm always changing the focus point with my nose :D I have to lock it to avoid the problem. Good work Mike!
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left eye.
I shoot with my left eye but I'm right handed...
lefty here!!! and the right one gets tired sometimes and i even hold it closed with my finger, hehehe!!
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Left eyed! Handsome photographer, by the way!!!
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I shoot with my right, but i keep both eyes open. Is that strange?
Right eyed, although since I went to the colon experience and saw you shoot left eyed, I wished I could look that cool, no squinty left eye to shut out the light and distraction. Being cool is not really my gift so I will just be a left eyed squinty shooter.
Usually a left eye shooter with right eye open (although I do believe I switch sometimes… hmm). I learned to shoot with both eyes open covering high school football games 20 years ago, so I could keep an eye on the wide view while shooting with a long lens.
Left Eye, but right handed.
right eye shooter w/ my left eye normally closed
Both. Right eye always in camera and left eye open for peripheral scanning. When I first stated full time I was shooting a lot of sports, where the off-camera open eye helps a ton to be able to stay on top of the action (at least it did for me). This habit stuck and now I shoot with both eyes for everything I do.
Left here...
I shoot with my right eye, but also keep my left eye open...
I thought I was the only one. ;)
I too shoot left eyed, right eye closed (and I'm left handed, if that means anything).
Left eye. I once had Denis Reggie tell me "ahhh... left eye huh?!" after handing me his camera and wondered about it ever since. I didn't have the gumption to ask him what he was talking about. :-)
Ray... you're looking too close. ;-)
First you look like a stud. Man I wish I had your figure ;-) (In my sassy voice!)
I am a righty, until fatigue sets in... Then I go left.
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left. i also like the open or shut other eye.
left eye shoot. right eye open.
Depends on if I'm shooting into a mirror or not...
Most of the time the right one and sometimes I use the left one. Using the left one, helps me to hold better the camera in low light situations.
I started out right and it was too hard to keep my left eye closed, so I switched the left and it is so much better. =) Is there any benefit to either? I definitely get nose prints all over my LCD, haha.
Left eye all the time with right eye open.
Squinting gives me a headache!
I'm mostly a lefty! So weird, since I'm right everything else. But, since left eye is controlled by right brain and right brain is creative, isn't that good? (ok, I made most of that brain thing up). :)
Left. But generally I leave the other open.
There is an established (ie-seasoned+old) photographer in my town whose one eye is always almost closed. Even when not shooting.
I don't want to end up like that. :)
Right handed, Right eyed, Right wing... Guess I'm just all right! lol
lefty all the way!
I use both.
right. i suppose it is because i am right handed and thereby my right eye is the closest. an across the face left handed eye technique would prove to be too challenging and exhausting really. i would have to look over my trigger hand. i don't know how you leftys do it. :)
Mike the only "right" way....yes right. My nose gets on the way if I use my left. Go figure...
Leftie 4 lyfe
RIGHT .... from my days as a news photojournalist. It allows me to keep my left eye open, especially at sporting events such as football and wrestling .... it means I don't get run over.
I have a theory about left-eye shooters, though .... the photogs I've talked with who are left eye shooters "learned by watching someone else." ... think about it. If you watch someone shoot, you're watching them shoot with their right eye, but to you, it's your LEFT eye ... so when you shoot, you shoot with your left eye. Make sense?
... but my biz partner shoots w/ his left eye. odd.
Right definitely Right. But believe it or not I think my left eye is stronger. I think I should visit the optometrist to double check. A simple but great topic!!!
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Right definitely Right. But believe it or not I think my left eye is
stronger. I think I should visit the optometrist to double check. A
simple but great topic!!!
Left eye ... Only! :)
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Left eye ... only !
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I am right eye with the left eye open. Though, in the beginning the left eye was closed. Took a while to keep it open.
Left eye!
I shoot lefty but I'm right on anything else and I leave my right eye open.......you rock dude.
Right eyed, with a squinty left eye.
Left eyed but sometimes i find myself switching to my right
Always been a lefty, will always be a lefty.
Right-handed, left-eyed
umm, hold on. I'm gonna check.
:)
It's the right. But I just tried the left eye and it feels refreshing, though I feel like I'm hiding behind the camera. Funny.
Hope all is well bro...Happy Thanksgiving! I'm thankful to know you!
Left eye.
Right eye, always.
I use my right eye. I wonder if manufacturers will ever make south paw cameras though? It must be hard for left handed users.
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I shoot with my left eye... I tried my right and I can't ever seem to line up the view finder with my eye?!? weird!
Right eye
Right eye
Left eye. I am right brained. I think that might have something to do with it. And I dont thing I close my right eye. I had to think about this, and go out and shoot.
crazy question.
I'm Shooting with the left eye... :)
I'm a switch shooter! lol It depends, I change every couple of shots.
I'm a right-eye shooter...
unless I'm on the ground or against a wall.
-E
right!
I'm a righty. I tried shooting with my left eye once. No one will ever see those photos.
I only have vision in my left eye - So lefty.
Oddly enough...my left eye, but I'm right-handed! And sometimes as I have the camera to my eye, I'm looking around with my other eye to see if anything is happening around me, then close my right, look through my left...shoot...voila! :-)~
Merry Christmas!!!
Right handed, Left eyed.
Right eye. I'm so glad there are other right-eye-shooters. I thought I was the only one!
I shoot with my left eye (right handed)but both eyes open. My high school biology teacher taught me this technique so I could look through a microscope and sketch the specimen without taking my eye off the eye piece. When I started shooting sports in school this technique served me well more than once.
Right eyed, for sure. I'm always left with smeared mascara on my left eye at the end of a shoot.
Hi I used Right eye
I shoot with my left eye for the most part. I'm left-handed too.
I have never really stopped and thought about it... so I grabbed my camera.. and lefty, I am :)
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