People ask about the camera toss a lot. Mike Larson has some info and videos at his blog, but when I was shooting a wedding last weekend with Ray Pryor, I decided to do an impromptu little “class” on how to do it. Ray shot it with his killer 5d MkII, which did an amazing job in such low light.
Sweet job on the vid, Ray!
Here’s me and Ray in the rain!
Lake Michigan camera toss!
Here’s a shot from last weekend:
Manual. I usually back up about 20 feet from the people I’m shooting, then set it that way before the toss.
What about the focus point? Manual? Automatic? What do you set it at?
Not familiar with the d700. Sorry!
D700 I’m not having any luck setting up the bracketing settings so that the camera fires off consecutive shots after the 2 sec timer goes off. Any ideas suggestions?
Dude, this is killer. I might have to go out and get a fisheye just to make this work (I just tried it with a 50mm on a D3 and the FoV was too small (and I’m not willing to toss it higher…ehhe) ) …. awesome.
That is seriously cool!
I wanna do this so bad but I’m so scared…… Do you recommend trying it out at a Canon booth during a show?
lol, you’ve gotta be quite brave to do this….
eh, one question about your comments… what would your friends say if you drop the cam?
Parabens!
Uma otima manobra.
quality, I love them sitting down!
você é o cara
hi, swan my name ís RicardoMIlani
i’would like the camera soon
Nossa, meus parabens pela criatividade, eu estou emprecionado de osadia de jogar uma camera para o ar, eu não faria isso e nem pensaria, mas agora eu estou renovando meus conseitos.
abraços
The best, very good!!!
Congrats Kevin,
Very cool =D
Nice… Thanks man! Vou tentar fazer com a minha Rebel XTi, hehehe
yikes!!!! FUN!
Ha! That is insane! Thanks for sharing.
The 5D vid was pretty impressive too!
Love It!! If I was the least bit coordinated I would try this! 
My luck, it would end up knocking out the bride or something!
wicked cool
and don’t use a camera strap!
Not yet, Otto. Hahah. I have bruised my hand pretty good when the metal edge of the fisheye hits me on catching it. That’s about it, though!
Thanks for that video! You and Ray are rockstars. Seriously. So have you ever dropped your camera doing this?
Very cool man. Thanks for the vid.
Thanks Kev! Great job! -J
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