riiiiight. I am not disputing what you are saying. But perhaps we are on different pages.
1. How long does this guy sit up there in the sky?2. Like with ANY scene/scenes - you can shoot it over and over again - and get many different images, compositions, light and whatever. but it is still the same scene.
It's a bit like taking photos out of an airplane window. Every time it's different - but every time it's still a photo out of a window of a plane.
Kapish??
And no - I am not saying the photos are boring or that it wouldn't be a fantastic opportunity - just get what I am saying in perspective.
Elsa, that's a good point about the length of time involved - I expect that opportunities for new compositions would diminish along a log curve as the days and weeks go by. But I think that the analogy to photography out an airplane window conjures up a very limited and frustrating set of mental images and experiences due to the extremely limiting opportunities provided by that kind of photography, at least on a standard commercial flight.
And I wouldn't call the view out an ISS window the same scene every time. It's certainly much more limiting than the choices we have on the earth's surface. On the other hand, you can shoot more or less
straight down with a telephoto and in
different lighting. Oh to have an 800mm lens! Or you can zoom out somewhat and
shoot a bit more obliquely, or go to
very wide angles or even a
fisheye lens. (Linked photos illustrate possibilities but not necessarily interesting art.) Aiming more at the horizon might seem to get old fast, but with patience you might see something like
this or
this. Then there are the sunset and
night shots. Of course, there would be periods of several to tens of minutes during each orbit where the daytime lighting is flat or the night lights too sparse. Still, I think it would take days to get to the point where most orbits fail to provide good opportunities, especially if one has a good range of focal lengths available.
