Thanks, Bob! Good light metering suggestion. I like the pics. Light did come out very well. Impressive. Cheers, Christine
On Feb 1, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Bob W <p...@web-options.com> wrote: > On 1 Feb 2014, at 16:56, Christine Aguila <christ...@caguila.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Everyone: >> >> If you were to do a photo shoot of a ski outting, what might be your kit, >> preparation and strategy, and safety issues? Obviously, a photographer >> wouldn’t want to just wait at the bottom of the hill for shots of folks >> coming down the hill. How would you keep your kit safe when maneuvering >> along the hill? >> >> Any tips and strategies from any PDML Skier-Photogs? >> >> I’m not planning a ski shoot this season, but maybe next season. > > I went skiing a few years ago with one of my brothers and his family, who are > very good skiers. It's the only time I've skiied. It was the film era and I > was using a Contax with Zeiss lenses. When I was skiing I left them at my > brother's house - I had no wish to have that stuff on me while skiing, it was > likely to be dangerous. On some days I didn't ski, and took the camera kit in > a Domke F-2, went up the ski lift with them and found some spots where I > could get different views of them on the way down, them some shots of one of > my nephews boarding. > > I took a full range of lenses, from a 300mm to a 21mm. I took incident light > readings with my hand shading the underside of the meter so that the snow > would come out right. > > Here's a page I've just put up. Low-res scans to CD. > > http://www.web-options.com/Skiing/ > > The best shot is the one of my nephew jumping off a low bank - that's with a > 21mm lens (35mm camera). Most of the shots are very samey, although I expect > someone with more experience would much better. > > B > -- > 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. -- 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.
