At 7:29 PM -0500 9/29/05, Roger Eichhorn wrote:
Emily,
They are indeed beautiful photos, precisely composed, and convey
nicely the action of the moment. Now, how wet did you get and how
bad was your cold after it was over? Were you in your own boat or
in with one of the contestants?
Roger
Thanks Roger. I was in a photo boat. The first day the wind was
almost too high and my boat was low to the water, which is what is
necessary for shooting boats this small. The fine guy who was
running my boat was a racer himself, and knew what was going on. His
wife was a commercial photographer, too. So we worked well together.
He would teach me about how the game was played and help me figure
out where the good places were to shoot from, and then he could put
the boat there and deal with the umpires and he knew how close we
could be and still not get in the way of the sailors. He knew all
the umpires, too, so they would only come and warn us if they thought
we were in the way, not yell at us and chase us away.
The wind was high, so I was always drying my camera off, especially
the barrel of the long zoom, which was extended most of the time so
it got drops of salt water on it. The lens did too but that can be
cleared up in Photoshop by pushing the contrast on the RAW capture
and upping the saturation of the colors.
The second day there were three of us on a slightly larger boat and
we negotiated for vantage points. The guy driving our boat that day
was part of one of the teams and knew exactly what was going on every
moment! What a boon! And the wind was down so there wasn't as much
spray. This made the tacks much slower so there was time to react to
them and get shots of them. So I concentrated on shooting roll tacks
that day.
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Emily L. Ferguson
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