Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Dec 13, 2006, at 11:57 AM, <larry.k@rcn.com> wrote: > > >> Anticipation of the action comes with experience and knowing >the >> sport. > > Ted, > Ok, how do you photograph runners in a race? Do you watch for their > knees to come up and hit that moment? ;-) Do you wait for them to > collapse? What do you photograph when you're watching 5000 runners > stream by? > > Does my jumping runner shot here: > > http://web.mac.com/mac.hive/iWeb/Site/Street.html > > work in any way? I think you need to be closer. > > There was this professional photo unit called Brightroom, standing > on the sidelines of the race firing their Nikons as fast as their > buffers would allow. I guess the idea is that you might be able to > sell some of those frames to the runners. That was real machine gun > photography in action... Brightroom specializes (if you can call it that) in mass production. If you give an infinite number of chimps an equally infinite number of machine-gun Nikons then in theory there will be a good picture among the infinite number of exposures. I've gotten better pictures by handing my R4 to one of my friends so they can snap one picture as I run past. I have never ever purchased a Brightroom photo of one of my races. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com