Re: Sports photographer mentality?

2001-08-25 Thread Kenneth Waller

Also if you only take one shot of  a given scene/situation, that becomes
your best shot. Having the ability to choose among several variations of the
same shot is sure to improve your photography.
Ken Waller
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From: Mark Cassino [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 11:57 PM
Subject: RE: Sports photographer mentality?


 I think bracketing just means starting with a basic idea, and then hedging
 it a bit.  So you set your exposure, but then shoot one over and one under
 exposed.  Or you figure where to set the focal plain to get every thing in
 focus, and then you shift it a little forward and a little back, in case
 you miscalculated.

 - MCC

 At 10:02 PM 8/22/01 -0400, Amita  wrote:
   I bracket like hell - exposure, focus, DOF, even
   composition, and shoot with some intent.
 
 I'm glad you brought this up, Mark. I've been trying
 to figure out what bracketing was. Does it mean that
 you take your time setting up your shot and making sure
 your settings and composition are right before you shoot?




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Re: Sports photographer mentality?

2001-08-24 Thread Daniel J. Matyola

 Richard Klein wrote:

  How do you keep track of all the settings you took various pictures at?  Do
  you have a data back or carry a notebook with you?

I have a very small digital voice recorder that I take along when I think I need to
record that kind of info, or when I'm traveling and want to remember exactly where
I took that shot, especially something like an architectural detail. It's the size
of a credit card, and only a bit thicker.  Made by panasonic and others.

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Re: Sports photographer mentality?

2001-08-24 Thread Anthony Farr

Metz 60CT series flashes also have a motor drive setting that keeps up
at 5fps, but not with as much grunt as a Norman I'd guess.  Mine will
deliver 7 metres at f2 with ISO400 at the normal reflector setting.
According to the Mecamat 60-30 sensor that's about equal to 1/64 power.
In theory 1/32 should recycle in under 0.2sec but that assumes the
capacitor's recharge curve is a straight line, and it probably isn't.

FWIW I got my 60CT-1 in the early '80s when they were new to the market,
and for a long time (perhaps still?) Metz 60s were regarded as THE
handle mount flashgun to have when power and auto-exposure both
mattered.  And it didn't hurt that owners of 45CT-*s would turn green
with envy when you could just keep hitting the shutter release with nary
a care for recycling times.

But my prime reason for getting a brute flashgun was to achieve daylight
fill flash over a reasonable distance at the modest x-synch of older FP
shutters.  I suspect it is cheaper to increase the power of the flashgun
than it is to make fast X-synching FP shutters, but for better or worse
the manufacturers have decided to throw OUR money down the latter road.
Perhaps it is more profitable for them to value-add the camera than it
is to value-add their flashguns, or risk letting a 3rd party
manufacturer like Metz or Braun or Sunpak take the sale (and profit)
from them.

Regards,
Anthony Farr

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From: Robert Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 OK, Tom I'm busted. I spoke out of school on that one. Never used
 a big-ol Norman, my flame thrower flash is a Sunpak 622 and since
 I usually shoot 400 speed film at F5.6 on football games, it takes
 about a second to recharge.

 ...
 Like to make a small wager? A Norman 200B at 1/4 power will. But you
give up
 all automation with
 that.
 - --graywolf


 Robert Payne wrote:
 
  no flash can keep up with a 4+ fps motordrive,




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Re: Sports photographer mentality?

2001-08-23 Thread clivew

[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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RE: Sports photographer mentality?

2001-08-23 Thread Richard Klein

How do you keep track of all the settings you took various pictures at?  Do
you have a data back or carry a notebook with you?

   -Rich


Frank Theriault wrote:
 
 Nope.  (I'm sure someone will correct/expand on what I'm about to say)
 As far as I'm aware, it means taking the proper setting (or at least
 what your camera/light meter says they should be), shooting those, and
 then taking shots at higher and lower settings, to see how those
 differences turn out.
 
 For instance, if the correct aperture is f8, you shoot at that
 opening, then at f5.6 and at f11.  Similarly, if the indicated shutter
 speed is 1/125, you bracket at 1/60th and 250.
 
 If you really get into it, you can also shoot two stops or speeds over
 and under.
 
 Any comments?
 
 regards,
 frank
 
 Amita Guha wrote:
 
 
  I'm glad you brought this up, Mark. I've been trying
  to figure out what bracketing was. Does it mean that
  you take your time setting up your shot and making sure
  your settings and composition are right before you shoot?
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Re: Re: Sports photographer mentality?

2001-08-23 Thread David J Brooks

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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[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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OT: Re: Sports photographer mentality?

2001-08-23 Thread W Keith Mosier

Cesar Matamoros wrote about the Sports photographer mentality...
 I usually take photographs for a local triathlon.  I tend to take
 pictures showing crowds, advertising, and the like.  This year, due to
 nepotism, I was ´relieved´ of my duties..
In a similar vein (sort of), for the past several years, I've worked
security for the World Championship Saddlebred Horse Show, held in my home
town (some of the workers, like me, work on a volunteer basis to earn money
for charities, with the pay going directly to the charity.)  It's a
week-long affair, with a lot of very rich and famous horsemen and women
from all over the world.  Security's job is to ensure that only people with
the proper credentials (trainers, grooms, and press) are allowed access to
the ring around the show ring, and that they do not take food, drink, pets,
etc. down to the ring.  I've met and spoken with several photographers in
the horse business, some were very interested in seeing the MZ-S, even
though most were using Nikon or Canon.  I usually start the conversation by
joking with them that their camera brand is not on the accepted equipment
list.  I've yet to make an attempt to work with them.  From our
conversations it appears that most have a very full time job.  I'm too
close to full retirement benefits in this job.

Last night I stopped a lady going to the ring with a mixed drink.  She
proceeded to inform me that no one could expect her to stand in the press
box all night and take photos of those horses all night without some
alcohol to get her through the ordeal.  I hadn't even noticed the camera.
Sure enough, she had a press pin, but wasn't dressed like most of the press
row photogs.  She was dressed like most of the spectators/owners, like
going to a very formal party.  I told her that in my experience alcohol and
photography didn't mix very well, since my focusing ability drops
proportionately to the amount of alcohol consumed.  That started a long
discussion.  She proceeded to tell me that she had been given the job of
photographing several horse shows for a trade magazine and she was on her
fourth camera.  The magazine had assured her that she couldn't break this
one since she had killed the first three.   She wasn't worried about
focusing, The camera does that.  Then she proceeded to show me the cute
little icons that selected the camera functions.  When I finally noticed
the camera, it was a Minolta Maxxum QTS1 or QSTi, which appeared to be an
entry level auto-focus SLR, with a definite consumer grade zoom.  Sure
enough, she was traveling to the most important horse shows all across the
United States with her publisher/editor and taking photos of competitions.
She only needed 4 or 5 photos of each show for the magazine, and knew which
classes, horses, and riders would be most interesting to her magazine's
audience.  Here was a lady with a great part-time job, and she apparently
wasn't interested it doing a good job and apparently had little skill to
offer.

It's amazing to me how many of the wrong people get the good jobs.  I
probably need to send her magazine some examples of what a good camera and
operator can do.  But then again, as in Cesar's case, maybe I'd be fighting
nepotism.  Sorry, just needed to vent my ire.


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Re: Sports photographer mentality?

2001-08-23 Thread graywolf

Like to make a small wager? A Norman 200B at 1/4 power will. But you give up all 
automation with
that.
--graywolf


Robert Payne wrote:
 
 no flash can keep up with a 4+ fps motordrive,

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Re: Sports photographer mentality?

2001-08-23 Thread graywolf

I once knew a photographer who did that. He'd take 6-8 essensually identicale shots 
and send each to
a different market. He often got multiple sales by doing that. An to make it even more 
interesting
he claimed he told the customers that he had submitted slides that were taken only a 
few seconds
apart to over markets, didn't seem to hurt his sales.
--graywolf


William Robb wrote:
 
 - Original Message -
 From: Jostein Øksne
 Subject: Re: Re: Sports photographer mentality?
 
  I know a couple of landscape photographers that also make
 three or
  four identical shots once they put their hand on the release
 button.
  Their argument is that one goes into their personal archive
 for
  backup, one is reserved for making enlargements, and one just
 in
  case. Those who deliver to agencies, usually take one more
 than that.
 
 Count me in as one of those. I always shoot at least 2 sheets of
 any given subject, and quite often 4. This gives me some
 insurance against dust on the film, or a scratch from loading or
 unloading the film holder. It also gives me a couple of extra
 frames to alter the development if I decide that I don't agree
 with the development decisions I made when I shot the picture.
 William Robb

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Re: Sports photographer mentality?

2001-08-23 Thread William Robb

It makes a lot of sense to do your dupe slides at the same
time you shoot the original too. The quality is better that way.
William Robb
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: Sports photographer mentality?


 I once knew a photographer who did that. He'd take 6-8
essensually identicale shots and send each to
 a different market. He often got multiple sales by doing that.
An to make it even more interesting
 he claimed he told the customers that he had submitted slides
that were taken only a few seconds
 apart to over markets, didn't seem to hurt his sales.
 --graywolf


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RE: Sports photographer mentality?

2001-08-23 Thread Len Paris

Yeah, Metz can keep up if you reduce power so the battery can
handle it.  I've shot some bursts off with the CT45/4 that
worked pretty darned well.  The Nikon SB28 and the AF500FTZ
should be able to do it with a Quantum battery, too.  I haven't
tried any of that with my AF500FTZ but I will try it just to
confirm it works.

Len
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 Like to make a small wager? A Norman 200B at 1/4
 power will. But you give up all automation with
 that.
 --graywolf


 Robert Payne wrote:
 
  no flash can keep up with a 4+ fps motordrive,

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Re: Re: Sports photographer mentality?

2001-08-23 Thread Kenneth Waller

They are called in camera dupes.
Ken Waller
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From: Jostein Øksne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: Re: Sports photographer mentality?


 I know a couple of landscape photographers that also make three or
 four identical shots once they put their hand on the release button.
 Their argument is that one goes into their personal archive for
 backup, one is reserved for making enlargements, and one just in
 case. Those who deliver to agencies, usually take one more than that.

 Jostein

 - Original Message -
 From: David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 4:03 PM
 Subject: Re: Re: Sports photographer mentality?


  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
 
   Begin Original Message 
 
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:24:51 +0100 (BST)
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  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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Re: Sports photographer mentality?

2001-08-23 Thread graywolf

I would think the Sunpak with the external 510V or 510V nicad pack would do it to at 
least as well
when you dial down the power. Of course, if you need the maximum available power you 
are kind of
stuck. The Normans only recycle in a second on 200W/S.
--graywolf
 

Robert Payne wrote:
 
 OK, Tom I'm busted. I spoke out of school on that one. Never used
 a big-ol Norman, my flame thrower flash is a Sunpak 622 and since
 I usually shoot 400 speed film at F5.6 on football games, it takes
 about a second to recharge.
 
 ...
 Like to make a small wager? A Norman 200B at 1/4 power will. But you give up
 all automation with
 that.
 - --graywolf
 
 Robert Payne wrote:
 
  no flash can keep up with a 4+ fps motordrive,
 
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Re: Sports photographer mentality?

2001-08-22 Thread Rfsindg

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I really hope some day to be a kung-fu photographer who unerringly shoots 
 37 exposures per roll with 37 keepers, but for now am content to be a 
 grasshopper jumping from setting to setting.  

Mark,
Now that sure conjures up a mental image...
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Re: Sports photographer mentality?

2001-08-22 Thread David J Brooks

Hi Cesar.
As you may already be aware,i shot mostly equine events and
i too like to set up for 1-2 optimal shots not a set of rapid 
fire pictures.Were is the fun or skill in that???If you have a 
dark room i supose you can develop and shose which ones
go on the contact sheet but i dont,each pic costs me at 
the lab.I view photography as an art form,as i'm sure
most of the list does to,so when i shoot its to hopefully get an
image people will enjoy.
I now have a D1 i use at some events to sell on site pictures 
and i noticed a new company shooting a show last week.The 
one shooter sat on a hill and did the same thing,hold in the 
shutter and shoot.Most of her shots were to early or late over the 
jumps or caught the ass end over the jump and i heard many people 
comment that my work was a lot better,will you be doing the next show 
instead of these people.It took me over a year to get my timing down 
and never would if i shot like that.

Rant over Thanks

Dave


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From: Matamoros, Cesar A. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:24:06 -0400
To: 'Pentax' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sports photographer mentality?



Anyhow, the one thing that I noticed - as did the squadron
photographer I showed them to and two non-photographers, was that the
photographer was burning film.  It amazed me that he took four to six
consecutive shots (mash down the shutter release button) of people 
standing
over timing chips, inspecting their bicycle, making a transaction in 
the
sports expo.  On the other hand, I would see an interesting shot in 
my mind
and then take one maybe two shots when I thought the moment to be 
right.

Is his style attributable to a sports photography mindset 
perhaps?
Not being in the profession, nor having talked to many who are I 
figured I
would tap the vast knowledge of the list.

Thank you for your time,

César Matamoros II
Panama City, Florida

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Re: Sports photographer mentality?

2001-08-22 Thread Frank Theriault

I don't disagree with you, David.  Pointing a camera with an 8 or 12
frame auto winder at a moving object at a sporting event, and trusting
that you'll get a few good shots may not be art, or fun.  Anyone
who's looked at PUG over the last few months will see that over the years
I've shot a few moving bikes and cars, all with an old manual body (and
I'm sure it shows!).

I'm quite content with the results that I've gotten by trying to capture
shots in that matter - not that I'm any good at it or anything.

OTOH, were I a pro (I shudder to use that word!), I'd be out there
shooting the most frames I could per second, with a bulk film holder,
etc, etc.  When ya gotta make a living at it, and ya gotta get a shot
that's publishable...

regards,
frank

David J Brooks wrote:

 Hi Cesar.
 As you may already be aware,i shot mostly equine events and
 i too like to set up for 1-2 optimal shots not a set of rapid
 fire pictures.Were is the fun or skill in that???If you have a
 dark room i supose you can develop and shose which ones
 go on the contact sheet but i dont,each pic costs me at
 the lab.I view photography as an art form,as i'm sure
 most of the list does to,so when i shoot its to hopefully get an
 image people will enjoy.
 I now have a D1 i use at some events to sell on site pictures
 and i noticed a new company shooting a show last week.The
 one shooter sat on a hill and did the same thing,hold in the
 shutter and shoot.Most of her shots were to early or late over the
 jumps or caught the ass end over the jump and i heard many people
 comment that my work was a lot better,will you be doing the next show
 instead of these people.It took me over a year to get my timing down
 and never would if i shot like that.

 Rant over Thanks

 Dave

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Re: Sports photographer mentality?

2001-08-21 Thread dick graham

Burning film is not an indication of his photog qualifications or lack 
thereof.  Most of us are aware that some of the finest photographers on 
this planet burn a lot of film on assignment.  National Geographic 
photographers are noted for taking hundreds-thousands of frames for a 6-10 
page layout.

DG



At 03:24 PM 8/21/01 -0400, you wrote:
 I usually take photographs for a local triathlon.  I tend to take
pictures showing crowds, advertising, and the like.  This year, due to
nepotism, I was ´relieved´ of my duties.

 I asked for and received a contact sheet of the photos he took.  I
believe him to be a sports photographer due to things mentioned to me, I was
never introduced to him.   The main reason I asked for the photos was
because during the swim start he positioned himself looking into the sun
while all the rest of the photographers had the sun somewhat behind us.  I
wanted to see the outcome of these shots.  They were not in the bunch I saw.

 Anyhow, the one thing that I noticed - as did the squadron
photographer I showed them to and two non-photographers, was that the
photographer was burning film.  It amazed me that he took four to six
consecutive shots (mash down the shutter release button) of people standing
over timing chips, inspecting their bicycle, making a transaction in the
sports expo.  On the other hand, I would see an interesting shot in my mind
and then take one maybe two shots when I thought the moment to be right.

 Is his style attributable to a sports photography mindset perhaps?
Not being in the profession, nor having talked to many who are I figured I
would tap the vast knowledge of the list.

 Thank you for your time,

 César Matamoros II
 Panama City, Florida

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