At 10:57 PM -0500 11/14/06, Guy Glorieux wrote:
P.P.S. Considering that "the lady with the boats"
you talking about me???!
works with a very long lens on a small
not necessarily
boat that races the wind, up and down bumpy waves
yes
to capture some distant racing boat down and up bumpy waves
yes, but actually rarely all that distant, and not always bumpy
she's got to be a pretty darn'd good photographer
getting there
.Truly, it's a lot of movement to account for when aiming for the
decisive moment of a race with a long lens...
Sure, but I have ISO 200, 1250th, a 1.6 multiplier that makes my
300mm into a 480mm, and, shooting RAW, I come home from 3 hours on
the water with 700 images, about 5% of which are out of focus and
only 90 of which are keepers (that's 20 rolls of film with 4 keepers
per roll). And while I don't argue that there is not skill involved
to getting good action in that situation, modern digital cameras that
shoot 8 frames per second certainly do help me to luck out.
And, after editing the keepers for the top shots, there might be only
5 that are actually good, and none of them can compete with the top
shooter in my specialty.
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Emily L. Ferguson
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