[nfb-talk] Any advice on taking pictures when totally blind?

Jim Portillo portillo.jim at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 20:39:53 UTC 2018


It is no longer available from them, believe it or not. I was lookibng for it earlier today and was told that it is kind of out of date already and isn’t carried by them anymore.
I might be able to buy the BRF file, but they’d need to find it.
Jim


Sent from my iPhone 7!

> On Apr 19, 2018, at 1:36 PM, Ringlein, Ellen via nfb-talk <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Jim,
> 
> Have you looked at Judy Dixon's book about taking pictures as a blind person? It's available from National Braille Press. I think it's called Picture It.
> 
> Ellen
> 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-talk [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Michael Bullis via nfb-talk
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2018 2:15 PM
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> Cc: Michael Bullis
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Any advice on taking pictures when totally blind?
> 
> Hi Jim:
> When I've successfully done it I had my daughter stand behind me to tell me where my focus was.  After a while I got comfortable with where the camera had to be pointed.  At first I tended to point the camera down too much so it was a matter of adjusting to exact vertical.
> When you're taking pictures of humans the camera app will tell you when there are faces visible so that helps.
> If you're not sure, take several pictures and sort them out later.  Like I said, at first I was simply pointing the camera too low.
> Perhaps having a few beers will help you relax.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-talk [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jim Portillo via nfb-talk
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2018 2:03 PM
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> Cc: Jim Portillo <portillo.jim at gmail.com>
> Subject: [nfb-talk] Any advice on taking pictures when totally blind?
> 
> Good morning everyone,
> 
> This seems to be a great resource with several folks who can advise me well.
> I'm going to be taking a vacation that I've been planning for a while.
> As with all vacations, people enjoy taking and looking at pictures to share with others.  I've got an iPhone 7 with the latest IOS, and I'm totally blind.
> Are there good ways or methods for taking decent pictures or selfies without always having to ask a sighted person to do it for you?
> Much of the time, I'll be with other blind people as well.
> Any good tips or resources for taking pictures would be much appreciated.
> Can one just use the general camera app or is there a better app for that?
> Thanks.
> Jim
> 
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