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Left or right-handed?

::theshrew
11/24/06 7:04 PM GMT
Does anyone else also think left-handed people take different photographic shots to right-handers?
I would take a bet on some photographers I am now aware of - being left-handed - but maybe my intuition doesn't always work!
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.noahnott
11/24/06 7:18 PM GMT
i doubt it...if it's true, that gives me a good excuse for why my pics are so dull (excluding the fact i'm too lazy to step out of the car, etc etc). =P
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&KEIFER
11/24/06 7:59 PM GMT
some cameras have a "left-handed program" mode .. so the righties can pose as lefties and only their hairdressers would know for sure
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::third_eye
11/24/06 8:06 PM GMT
hang on.. you mean if you're left-handed, it really makes that much of a difference? writing, sports, etc i get..but forgive my ignorance..how hard could it be to use your 'other' or lesser-used hand to spin a thumb dial or depress a shutter release? please don't think i'm being rude... i honestly don't understand..
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&KEIFER
11/24/06 8:21 PM GMT
well .. you know me .. I'm being facetious ...

:o)

I only say this in case Milo stumbles across this thread
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::theshrew
11/24/06 8:50 PM GMT
No it's not the practicality of taking the shot that I mean. It is the type of shot, I mean. I often wonder if we 'see' things differently? I find that some of my colleagues who are also left-handed also tend to take 'different' pictures. After all these years, I am probably nearly ambidextrous anyway! :~/
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&philcUK
11/24/06 8:53 PM GMT
As your hands are only performing the perfunctory mechanical aspect in the photographic process, I wouldn’t have thought it would make any difference at all.
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::theshrew
11/24/06 8:57 PM GMT
OK! I think left-handers are different in many ways (other than the obvious!). Just a brain thing I guess!
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::third_eye
11/24/06 9:08 PM GMT
oops, i suppose i misunderstood the direction of your approach. i have heard it said that 'lefties' do think differently on certain things. who knows..maybe, or maybe it's just the person's individuality, and the hand they use is just a convenient 'identifier'..
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.noahnott
11/24/06 9:14 PM GMT
Actually, honestly, i think the left handed thing is an adapted thing. Like, I use the mouse w/ my right hand, when i SHOULD be using it with my left hand. I'm just used to using one with my right hand. Same with writting, i'm just used to writting with my left hand. =P I bet with 16 years of practice my right hand could be just as good...same goes with baseball, i hit the same way right handed ppl do, but in tennis i hit the way a left handed person is supposed to play. :-S

Other than that, if you write with your left hand, you are of course, automatically smarter. =P
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&KEIFER
11/24/06 9:20 PM GMT
my brother is left handed .. and he's an obstinate, bull-headed, S.O.B.

but .. I digress
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.noahnott
11/24/06 9:24 PM GMT
...there are exceptions...
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.animaniactoo
11/24/06 10:15 PM GMT
*ponders if Keith was lookin in the mirror when he made that statement*

I think he was just lookin for some FACEtious time 8•P
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::J_272004
11/24/06 10:29 PM GMT
hmmm so does that mean all left handed people were voting on my right handed work?? that would explain the c-index.. LMAO.. *Sorry I couldnt resist the dig a that cos I KNOW at least one person would use this as an excuse for it..

Seriously whether your left handed or right handed when taking a pic doesnt make any difference... whether they see a shot differently has nothing to do with left or right, that is personal preference, I know a lot of right handed people that see scenes etc differently to each other..

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&KEIFER
11/24/06 10:46 PM GMT
I think, possibly, this thread was a bit of Left-handed chest thumping ... maybe .. tongue planted firmly in left cheek

you know, the old ... "if the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body .. then only left-handers are in their right mind"

the OBVIOUS smirk on her face in her last post was the tipoff
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.MiLo_Anderson
11/25/06 12:30 AM GMT
First i would like to take a moment to thank keifer for clearing things up on my behalf. It touched me:P. I could possibly see a left handed person putting the subject on one side more often than a right handed person. I think i often lean one way when i compose a shot, so maybe if i was a lefty i would lean the other way. Interesting idea
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.noahnott
11/25/06 12:53 AM GMT
I usually put the subject on the right side! >_> (not that the pictures turn out any good or anything of the sort).
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+mayne
11/25/06 1:33 AM GMT
Hmmm, write left, eat left, swing right, catch left, viewfinder left, wipe right, chew left, ponder right, type both fingers. I think you're on to something;-)
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Darryl
::third_eye
11/25/06 1:52 AM GMT
whew, glad you stopped where you did...methinks you were about to wander into TMI land ;-)
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+mayne
11/25/06 2:23 AM GMT
We'll leave Pee Wee Herman out of this conversation;-)
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Darryl
&KEIFER
11/25/06 2:28 AM GMT
TMI .. ??? ... top moo images?
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+mayne
11/25/06 2:32 AM GMT
Speakin of wee ones...which hand puts beans and peas in their ears;-)
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Darryl
::third_eye
11/25/06 2:37 AM GMT
well, i think i was 4 when i used my right hand to shove a pea-sized pebble up my nose. why, you ask... simple..to see if it fit... and then had to get hauled off to the ER to get it removed... fun times..
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+mayne
11/25/06 2:41 AM GMT
Kate, what photographers were your intuitions based on?
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Darryl
::theshrew
11/25/06 9:26 AM GMT
I won't be specific (coward!) but I suspect those who take more angular or mathematical shots to be left-handed. Also, as intimated above, placement or main interest on the right hand side (or more awareness of right side of frame) to be left-handers. Also 'darker' images especially of people - and less of the 'pretty' image. Less 'swirly' images - more patterns in nature.
Very boring I know - but we probably are!
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::mesmerized
11/25/06 7:43 PM GMT
I'm a southpaw...I don't know, do you see anything in my gallery that gives that away?...and have you heard that old joke about the left and right side of the brain?...how the left side of the brain is dominant in right-handed people and the right side of the brain dominant in left-handed people, meaning that left-handed people are the only ones in their 'right' mind...yuk, yuk, yuk...
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.noahnott
11/25/06 7:50 PM GMT
I gotta 'nother joke:

God is left handed b/c he holds Jesus in his right hand and does all his magic w/ his left hand. *source: Chemistry Teacher*
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&philcUK
11/25/06 7:52 PM GMT
i'd suggest considering changing schools immediately.
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::third_eye
11/25/06 8:11 PM GMT
hmmm, i'm a righty, and i defintely see things out-of-the box, and love shooting angular and geometrical shots....omg, could it be i've been living a lie..and i'm {gasp} a LEFTY? ;-)
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::laurengary
11/25/06 8:18 PM GMT
So.... I'm slightly ambidextrous ... what's that show you about me ?
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::third_eye
11/25/06 8:37 PM GMT
um, in baseball terms, you literally swing both ways? :P
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&KEIFER
11/25/06 9:00 PM GMT
she can use both hands .. except to block tree branches from hitting her head .. in that case .. none of them work
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::phasmid
11/25/06 10:11 PM GMT
Oh, I can't get left *yuk* out of this one, cause I'm a lefty that bats right, writes left, plays piano with both, sees out of my left eye better than my right, so all my pics are taken with my left eye, even if I'm looking at the bigger screen e.g. squint the right. But I do live on the "right" coast, but my sister who's a righty lives on the left coast...now I'd like to see what's left outta the machine after all that, right? *muah muah* :)PJ
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::LynEve
11/26/06 4:11 AM GMT
Most left-handers, when drawing figures face them to the right, so perhaps they compose pictures the same way.

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::phasmid
11/26/06 5:04 AM GMT
I (part of "they") usually draw people face on :(
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::third_eye
11/26/06 5:58 AM GMT
and i usually draw faces...on people :P
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::LynEve
11/26/06 10:11 AM GMT
I am right handed and find it almost impossible to draw a face facing right. That looks anything like a face, that is.
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::theshrew
11/26/06 12:18 AM GMT
Absolutely agree - (well I would wouldn't I? Being primarly left-handed I also use other media and always draw a face 3/4 or fully facing right. I cannot do the same if the face is turned to the left. I find curves also are right-handed ones and points of interest almost always are on the right or centre ground.
However, possibly the opposite doesn't always prevail for right-handers?
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::laurengary
11/27/06 12:46 AM GMT
And I draw mustaches on faces ... *peers critically at third eye's icon*
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::third_eye
11/27/06 2:11 AM GMT
that hair above my eye is called an eyebrow..poor lass got it confused with a mustache...awwww *pat pat* :oP
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.noahnott
11/27/06 2:16 AM GMT
I second...third the idea that lefties draw faces facing left...wait...right. Well from our point of view the face points right, to the 2d person's face, it's left.
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Icedtears
11/27/06 9:16 AM GMT
I don't think that it would make much of a difference if they were left or right handed.

it's more about the mind than the hand.
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::theshrew
11/27/06 9:20 AM GMT
Hmmm! Some seem to 'get a handle' on this discussion more than others...
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::LynEve
11/27/06 9:33 AM GMT
The hand is inextricably connected to the brain/mind. I do not know what the ratio of left hander to right hander is but I do know that 20% of Mensa members are south paws and I would imagine the percentage of them overall would be less than this, which would tend to suggest they have superior intelligence.
If this is true my right handedness would explain a lot :)
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&KEIFER
11/27/06 9:57 AM GMT
whoa .. Eve .. careful there .. don't be bandying about statements like that

pretty soon they'll be demanding reparations, parking spots, holidays, traffic lanes on the freeway, express tollbooths, checkout lines at the grocery store, political parties, heck--ANY kind of parties ...

*caedes will have to come up with a special symbol next to their names so that we know to speak to them with deference ... like ... <<theshrew

please .. for the sake of the status quo, we don't need any more status symbols

:o)
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::theshrew
11/27/06 10:38 AM GMT
I expect to be spoken to (in Caedes as elsewhere) with deference! It's not a bad habit to get into! }:~)
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::LynEve
11/28/06 2:24 AM GMT
Any of these lefthander parties - let me know, I will come as
an observer' lol

Google is my friend and it tells me that overall 17% of humans are southpaws. :)

Notable artists -
Buonaroti, Michelangelo Italian Artist 06-Mar-1475
Coney, Herb Artist
Da Vinci, Leonardo Italian Artist,Painter,Sculptor, Architect,Engineer and Scientist 15-Apr-1452
de Toulouse Lautrec, Henri French Artist 24-Nov-1864
del Piombo, Sebastiano Italian Artist 1485
Doughty, Terry USA Wildlife Artist
Dufy, Raoul French Artist 1877
Dürer, Albrecht German Artist 21-May-1471
Escher, M.C. Dutch Graphic Artist 17-Jun-1898
Holbein, Hans UK Artist 1497
Hoppe, Curtis USA Artist 1950
Karshan, Linda USA Artist 1947
Klee, Paul Swiss Artist 18-Dec-1879
Kollwitz, Kathe German Artist 08-July-1867
Kunstler, Mort USA American Civil War Artist
Landseer, Edwin UK Artist - Horses, Dogs & Stags 1802
Neiman, LeRoy USA Artist - Sporting Events and Leisure Activities
Rubens, Peter Paul Flemish Artist 28-Jun-1577
Scott, Peter Artist-bird painting
Studeman, Mark Artist
von Menzel, Adolf (Dec'd) German Draftsman, Painter & Printmaker 1815
von Schwanthaler, Ludwig (Dec'd) German Sculptor 1802

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::J_272004
11/28/06 4:32 AM GMT
Kermit the frog is a lefty????? wow didnt know that.. lmao...
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=Piner
11/28/06 4:13 PM GMT
@ 10% of the population is left-handed..... my youngest son and his mother are among the lefties.
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::theshrew
11/28/06 7:20 PM GMT
OK guys and gals, when I posed the original question, I did not intend this to become a competition between left-handed people and right-handed people!!
I wonder which side started... ah well, anyway - I thought I detected distinct traits in my own work, which I can sometimes detect in others' work - and wondered if this was a right/left divide!
I guess as has been hinted at above, it could just boil down to a Mensa/non-Mensa divide instead!
Hands up those with an IQ over 140?? LoL!
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&KEIFER
11/28/06 8:10 PM GMT
yes ... let's not turn the lefties against the righties ... but the smarties against the dummies is ... more palatable?

what's next .. people who wrap their spaghetti on their fork vs the slurpers?

;o)
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::laurengary
11/28/06 8:12 PM GMT
Bart Simpson is a leftie ? Wow ....

And BTW Bub... I'm a spaghetti wrapper *peers accusingly at Keith*
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::third_eye
11/28/06 8:25 PM GMT
hey Lauren, do you use ribbon, or a stick-on bow?
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&KEIFER
11/28/06 8:31 PM GMT
I am the king .. you slurper ...
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::laurengary
11/29/06 4:00 AM GMT
Rob's the slurper.. tyvm ! And I'm a wrapper .... angelhair pasta of course.
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::DigiCamMan
12/15/06 7:44 PM GMT
It all depends on which eye you use. Right eye you get a right handed picture...left eye you get a left handed picture. Both eyes...stereoscopic. Eyes closed...no picture.
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::third_eye
12/16/06 12:52 AM GMT
not necessarily true. if noone's around to see the picture, does that mean it isn't really there? one-hand clap THAT, my googlie-eyedfriend ;-)
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::DigiCamMan
12/16/06 3:01 AM GMT
I gave you an airclap...it was bordering on lame you three eyed pirate.

It was a joke....but ya have to admit when it comes to killing threads I am da man!
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::DigiCamMan
12/30/06 2:54 AM GMT
The Master of thread destruction claims another one.
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