Re: Looking for indoor action tips

2013-03-28 Thread Charles Robinson
On Mar 28, 2013, at 08:47 , David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. An acquaintance of mine (he was the guy that started our local community radio station) has a step son that is doing very well as a trampolinist, trampologist, er, well he jumps on a large rubber band. Any way,

Re: Looking for indoor action tips

2013-03-28 Thread David J Brooks
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote: On Mar 28, 2013, at 08:47 , David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. An acquaintance of mine (he was the guy that started our local community radio station) has a step son that is doing very well as a

Re: Looking for indoor action tips

2013-03-28 Thread Collin Brendemuehl
Close action is one of those times when I enjoyed using a rangefinder. You see things off-frame and during the shot. I know that doesn't help you right now but it does lend to my perspective on shooting action. Action shooting in general requires something predictive. Generally you want to shoot

Re: Looking for indoor action tips

2013-03-28 Thread Paul Stenquist
Some motion blur shots would be great. Go for a slow shutter speed and that trailing curtain flash setting. I would try 1/15th second, but you'll have to pan with the motion. Low light is good, because you'll want plenty of illumination from the flash to get the frozen part of your frame. With

Re: Looking for indoor action tips

2013-03-28 Thread Christine Nielsen
That sounds like a fun project! I take a lot of indoor action photos at gymnastics track meets... and if the indoor light situation is anything like the venues I'm familiar with, you'll find yourself thanking the Gods of Ridiculously High ISO for that k-5. :) At track meets, I find I need

Re: Looking for indoor action tips

2013-03-28 Thread Charles Robinson
On Mar 28, 2013, at 09:21 , David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: I'd just set the camera to go auto up to ISO6400, set the shutter speed to 1/250 or so and let the chips fall where they may. Practice tripping the shutter when they're at the apex of whatever jumpy arcs they're doing.

Re: Looking for indoor action tips

2013-03-28 Thread Larry Colen
On Thu, March 28, 2013 6:47 am, David J Brooks wrote: Hi all. An acquaintance of mine (he was the guy that started our local community radio station) has a step son that is doing very well as a trampolinist, trampologist, er, well he jumps on a large rubber band. Any way, he won a

Re: Looking for indoor action tips

2013-03-28 Thread Doug Brewer
On 3/28/13 9:47 AM, David J Brooks wrote: Hi all. An acquaintance of mine (he was the guy that started our local community radio station) has a step son that is doing very well as a trampolinist, trampologist, er, well he jumps on a large rubber band. Any way, he won a championship last week,

Re: Looking for indoor action tips

2013-03-28 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:49:14AM -0400, Christine Nielsen wrote: I bet trampolining is more like gymnastics, speed-wise. I'd take advantage of that spot at the top of their trajectory, where motion kind of slows for a moment before they come back down... That rather depends on the

Re: Looking for indoor action tips

2013-03-28 Thread David J Brooks
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Christine Nielsen ch...@inielsen.net wrote: I bet trampolining is more like gymnastics, speed-wise. I'd take advantage of that spot at the top of their trajectory, where motion kind of slows for a moment before they come back down... Yes i think that

Re: Looking for indoor action tips

2013-03-28 Thread David J Brooks
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Doug Brewer d...@alphoto.com wrote: On 3/28/13 9:47 AM, David J Brooks wrote: Real photographers get on the trampoline with him. I would have to remove my shoes. They are hard to put back on Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Looking for indoor action tips

2013-03-28 Thread Bruce Walker
I never delete, unless the shot is all black from where the flash misfired or the cap was on. ;-) I find that both my tastes and my ability to make a near-miss into something reasonable or even good improves over time. I've been recently rescuing shots that a year ago (just post-shoot) I lumped