On: Peter Norvig on dance photography

[stevelosh]

As a dancer and photographer in my spare time, I've thought a lot about this too. I've written a couple of articles about it, though neither is as detailed as this:

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2008/04/shooting-girl-jam/

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/02/how-i-shoot-dances/

[sravfeyn → stevelosh]

But, no more do we need these photography tutorials now that we have lytro :P (http://www.lytro.com/).

BTW, is that the Peter Norvig from AI-Stanford!!

[jeswin → sravfeyn]

I don't really think lytro is that big a deal.

1. The big advantage I see is that there is no need to focus, but auto-focus is becoming really quick these days.

2. I can't find a picture where I feel like changing the focused object after taking the shot. I focused on something because I wanted it that way.

3. Aside of the focusing, an SLR gives you way more control.

Lytro however, is affordable and could still sell well.

[sp332 → sravfeyn]

It's nice to choose the focal plane like in the demos, but it'll be more useful when I can choose the depth of focus as well.

[irahul → sravfeyn]

> BTW, is that the Peter Norvig from AI-Stanford!!

Yes.