On Aug 14, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > Been wondering what had happened to the Kiwi contingent :-)> > > That event looks like it would have been great fun to shoot, provided > you could unfreeze your fingers long enough to press the shutter > release.
The mountains probably make it look a lot colder than it was. Actually come to think of it, last Sunday was pretty frosty but once I started running around a bit I soon forgot about it. There was no wind and plenty of sunshine which also helped a lot. Especially after I got both feet stuck in mud almost up to the knees. What looked like good sturdy dirt was anything but! > My favourites: (snip) I've been trying to mix up a good variety of photos, some closeups, some wider ones, I try to get quite a few with more than one person, some with one or two people among nice scenery, some looking downstream, etc. Generally I try and time the shutter so that the faces aren't obscured, except for 4-1056 which I quite liked for the eyes (she placed 2nd in Open Female). The editing is probably the hardest part. I think I started with 120-150 photos. I made the mistake of processing the good ones before looking at how many there were (55). Then I culled them down to 37 which is still a bit on the high side but bearable if you're interested. Being an all-levels event it's quite interesting seeing the differing attitudes of the paddlers. You can easily tell who the big guns are and who's just out for a good bit of exercise. > As an aside, my son is currently somewhere over the Tasman as I > write - > spending a few days doing railway photography around Arthur's Pass. > Probably freeze his arse off! Arthur's Pass is a good place for that. Also Middlemarch in Otago where the Taieri Gorge Railway runs. The landscape through there made me wish I had a large format camera, a tent and about a month of spare time. I hope his gear hasn't all been shredded by kea. They're a beautiful parrot but I think they know that they're protected. They will take anything and everything to bits right in front of you. - Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
