Feb 03 2008
Shooting with the right side of your brain.
Most everyone knows they have a dominant arm/hand. Snowboarders, soccer players, gymnasts quickly learn that they also have a dominant leg/foot. Increasingly golfers, archers, hunters, baseball players are becoming aware that they also have a dominant eye. Professional baseball players who are cross dominant (left-eye/right hand) are significantly more successful than their conventionally wired peers.
So how does this apply to our type of shooting? I really don’t know. You don’t see many cameras built for lefties. I would imagine that cross dominance would favor holding the camera closer to the body’s mid-line, and using the LCD rather than the eye-piece.
But it’s another reminder to shoot with both eyes open. Visually you engage the right side of the brain via the left eye.
To find out which eye is dominant do this:
With both eyes open point at an object so that your finger covers the object it’s pointing at.
Close one eye - then the other. Closing your dominant eye will cause your finger and the object to jump apart.
[…] Peter at Shooting by Numbers raised an interesting point last month about how your dominant eye may affect your shooting style. […]
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