Interesting to see all the classic photography rules given in the context of the space shuttle. Focusing for depth of field uses the example of the payload bay

Interesting to see all the classic photography rules given in the context of the space shuttle. Focusing for depth of field uses the example of the payload bay, rather than a group of friends. Makes you feel a bit wistful, while we're still sending people to space, no one will ever have the chance to use this manual in quite the same way ever again. It's interesting to see the kind of challenges you have when taking images up there. I think there's a tendency to assume that it's incredibly easy - that any snapshot will look amazing simply because it's space. In reality there are plenty of situations where practicality wins over aesthetics and extremely high dynamic range will cause problems. And of course that ultimately these will be the best publicity photos that NASA has so they'd better be well composed!