Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you Harrison, ted Ted Grant Photography Limited 1817 Feltham Road Victoria BC V8N 2A4 250-477-2156 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harrison McClary" <harrison@mcclary.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 6:54 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Shutter lag > Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: >> >> >> With all due respect, Ted, while remarkable sports shots, they don't >> prove anything except that you know the sport and where to position >> yourself in the arena. To get a decent picture of a basketball layup or a >> diver in a mid air tuck is a piece of cake. In most sports, there are a >> few locations where players converge and dramatic actions can be >> recorded. The basketball goal posts, the hockey net, home plate or first >> base on a baseball diamond are good examples. You know where the action >> will take place, you can prefocus, and then wait until the player moves >> into position. But you have no idea if the hockey goalie will actually >> stop the puck or the soccer player will actually head the corner kick. >> Nor do you have any examples of adventitious pictures of events that >> can't be predicted like a basketball midcourt steal, a Grand Prix tire >> blowout, or the knockout punch in a prizefight. Good as you are, there is >> at least a fifth of a second from the time you think about taking a >> picture until the shutter actually opens. In that time, a jumping >> basketball player can leap three feet, a fastball thrown by a big league >> pitcher will travel 26 feet, and a speeding race car will travel 35 to 40 >> feet. I suspect that you click the shutter when the action starts and, >> like most of us, trust to luck that you will record a memorable picture. >> >> Come on now, be honest. How many shots ended in the wastebasket to >> produce the ones on the web site? If you say that you get every picture >> with one click of the camera you will give the rest of us a horrible >> inferiority complex. > > The above was OBVIOUSLY written by someone who has never covered sports of > any type for a living. > First of all NO ONE who is a professional photographer PREFOCUSES...this > is a HUGE misconception by amatures about how to photograph sports. I > have covered events from the NCAA championships, the World Series, Super > Bowls down to high school football. I NEVER prefocused a single shot. > Mid Court steals? Try that with a 400 2.8 my friend. And yes I have > quite a few of those shots...show them to you? Go dig through the > Betteman archives as they were shot for UPI and are lost somewhere in a > salt mine somewhere. > > Photograph a player making a mid air reception with the ball on his > fingertips? Yep..been there done that also. > > http://www.pbase.com/2plus2/image/32936855 > http://www.pbase.com/2plus2/image/32936857 > > Admittedly those were shot with a Canon FD system, but my EOS 1DII shoots > just as fast as that old F1N did. > > I am sorry but shooting kids is no where in the same ball park as shooting > sports is. I have kids and I have covered pro sports...believe me sports > are FAR harder. Period. > > > -- > Harrison McClary Photography > harrison@mcclary.net > http://www.mcclary.net > ImageStockSouth - Stock Photography > http://www.imagestocksouth.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.13.0/465 - Release Date: 06/10/2006 > >