I still think there is a big difference between shooting a few
frames at the moment of truth and just aiming and firing
and hope you get something
Just my opinion
Dave
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Subject: Re: Sports photographer mentality?
[In response to various musings on motordrives.]
In his book 'Down Under', Bill Bryson (American travel writer better
known in Britain than in the US) comments on a magazine photographer
doing the same thing when taking pictures of him, although he was
sitting still at the time.
I'm beginning to understand why, though. In trying to take pictures
of my infant son, I've discovered that I need to take an awful lot of
frames to capture that expression that he seems to wear all the time
when I'm not pointing a lens at him.
In fact, you could argue that informal portraiture is a far better
application of the 'motordrive' technique than sport. To generalize,
a sports photographer is aiming to freeze one Key Moment - the
athlete at the top of her leap, the ball hitting the bat - and a
motordrive is as likely to give him a moment either side of that
Moment as the Moment itself. The only sure way to get results is
through intimate knowledge of both the sport and the equipment,
expert timing and a little luck. (This may be why I'm not a sports
photographer.)
The portrait photographer, on the other hand, has to cope with his
subject blinking, scratching, being distracted, all with no
predictable pattern, so a motordrive at least gives him a reasonable
chance of getting what he wants.
Perhaps the Leicaphiles out there have their own views on this - any
thoughts?
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