Emily,
I'm always stunned by your pictures of saling races - these in Scuttlebutt
and those that you post time and over on the PF Gallery. Amazing that it
took so long before they got widely distributed.
What I like about your action pictures is that they always convey that
incredible sense of being "inside" the race as opposed to "looking at it"
from the outside. What kind of focal length do you use to get the viewer
right inside the action? What ISO is your film (I assume that you shoot
with your lens closed down)?
My favorites pics are #10 (action) and #13 (meditation).
Guy Glorieux
Contemporary pinhole photography
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From: "Emily L. Ferguson" <elf@xxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: big deal to me this afternoon
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
mailto:elf@xxxxxxxx 508-563-6822
New England landscapes, wooden boats and races, press photography
http://www.vsu.cape.com/~elf/
