Chris Brogden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>" Boston Marathon 2000 " by Mark Roberts
>
>I like the spacing on this image. It's cropping out more of the runner on
>the right than I'd like, but at 400mm you don't have a whole lot of choice
>over that, especially if you want to get that boy in the shot. :)
I agree about the runner on the right but at the speed those
guys were running I didn't have *any* choices! Just point, pan
and hold the shutter button down. ("Help me robocamera, help
me!") I had perhaps three seconds in which to get a decent
photo. I got several duds and this shot.
>considering that the focus is on the runner in the center of the frame, I
>think it works okay. The framing is good in that the interesting crowd
>people are all in the gaps in front of the runners. The boy and the man
>with the camera make a great pair, though I'm not too fond of the
>expressions on the faces of those two women on the right.
I wasn't even aware of these people when taking the picture, I
just discovered I liked them afterwards.
>This is a case
>where a faster shutter speed or better support would have come in
>handy. I'm assuming you weren't using a tripod, but did you have the
>400mm on a monopod or handheld?
Hand held, hence the 800 speed film. Personally, though, I like
the shutter speed as it seems to me a good compromise: the
runners are sharp but not totally frozen and there's a little
blurring of the spectators due to the panning. I'm going to be
back there this year as my S.O. is running Boston (see
http://www.robertstech.com/dfmc) and I think I'll get a monopod
for the occasion.
>In either case, I like the way you convey
>the sense of motion, and the facial expressions of the runners are
>great... I find myself reading a lot into them and thinking about them,
>and that's all you can really ask of a photo, right?
This was one of my first attempts at sports photography and it's
definitely a different gig for me. We'll see what I can come up
with this year.
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