Hi Rebecca, welcome to the list.
Paul and Artur already gave you some good advice. Please keep us posted on your
progress and don't hesitate to keep on asking as you go along. It is always useful to
get as much specifics (as exactly what scene, what distance, what colours or lights,
what lens, what speed of film, automatic or manual exposure etc) about problematic
shots, since there may be many factors involved.
About the flash, make sure you always use fresh batteries. A lot of flash shots may
quickly drain them, resulting in the flash not getting reloaded enough..
I used to do some karate a long time ago. I tend to get the (many) various eastern
marshal arts mixed up nowadays - what kind of clothing do you use at the Taekwondo? If
it is all white, and you shoot close up shots, it may influence the metering so that
you might want to compensate for it, by increasing the light a stop or two. Do you
know anything about that?
If not, get back to us and someone will tell you more.
(Also, when you learn more, and if you get a flash that can do it, you might want to
impress someone by shooting close up flash shots with second shutter sync at longer
exposure times which will make movements look a little more...flashier(?) )
Good luck,
Lasse
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Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 5:34 PM
Subject: Hi from a Newbie!!
> Hello All,
>
> I have been reading the archives for about a month now and decided that it
> was time to join the list. I am very new to photography. Actually the reason
> I got started was because I was trying to take action shots at our Taekwondo
> tournys with an older point and shoot camera, but the pics were not turning
> out the way I wanted them to. And the focusing took so long that I would end
> up missing the shot. So, while in Wal-Mart one day I noticed a pentax camera
> on clearance. I snapped it up, remembering that my older sister and brother
> both at one time had pentax cameras and loved them. (my sister still has
> hers)
> The one I bought is a ZX50, with the 35mm f4-80mm f5.6 lens that came with
> it. I have also purchased a 2X tele converter, a Hanimex 135mm f2.8, a sakar
> macro 1:3.8X 75mm-200mm f4.5 and a Achiever 260AF flash, which I cant seem to
> get to work when using the manual focus, any and all help is appreciated.
> Some of the pics seem to turn out good and some of them not so good. I still
> have not gotten the hang of shooting things indoors. Like this last roll I
> just got developed, 3 of the shots turned out pretty good, but about 12 of
> them looked like I needed more light, even though I was using the same flash
> for all of them (the one on the camera, not the 260AF)
>
> I just wanted to say HI to everyone and find out if anyone has any ideas for
> indoor sport photography, PLEASE... send them my way.
>
> Rebecca Lane
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