[Leica] TSA publishes poster depicting photographers as terrorists

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

>>>> I certainly would " question it " - what is a guy doing shooting long 
>>>> lens
> through the grid ?<<<<<<<<<

The truth is? You can shoot through the wire grid fencing if you know what 
you're doing and not see the fence at all! The key is knowing "how to do 
it!" :-) Piece of cake really! :-) I know many of you will give me all kinds 
of tired noise about image quality etc. Get over it until you try it the way 
I'm about to tell you.

However, if I may suggest quite boldly before any of you doubters get wet 
pants peeing yourselves telling me I'm crazy and it can't be done.... go 
shoot some yourself, film or digital. Nope I'm not kidding as I've done it 
for years at all kinds of sporting events.

We have photographers who've never had to shoot through a wire fence as seen 
in the photo with a long lens, although the photo as depicted on this 
asinine poster is stupid. OOPS! Sorry I wasn't going to get into that as 
this is about shooting through a wire fence with a long lens and doing it 
quite successfully without the fence interfering with your images.

This is how to use a long lens and shoot through chicken wire or the kind of 
wire behind the umpire and home plate in thousands of baseball diamonds' 
across North America. Not to forget covering the Olympics and other 
international sports events where you "MUST SHOOT THROUGH THE FENCE!!" 
Whether you like it or not because that's the photo position. AND YOU "CAN 
NOT GO ANYWHERE ELSE!" Love it or leave!

Now, "HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY!" :-)
First set aperture wide open or maybe one stop down only. I have done this 
quite regularly for years with the Leica 280mm f2.8 and with a 1.4 extender 
and 2 times extender individually and with both extenders together creating 
an f8.0 800mm lens wide open on any number of R camera bodies.

When you shoot don't even look at what's in front of the lens other than 
making sure the "GLASS" isn't touching the wire. The rubber outer ring on 
the 280 protects against doing that. Look through viewfinder, focus and 
don't even think about the wire.... "PERIOD!"  Concentrate on the image as 
that's all you have to do..... NEVER MIND WHERE THE WIRE IS!"  Click away 
and when you see your images, film or digital.... absolutely no wires.... if 
you see them then you stopped down or were chicken about putting the lens 
against the fence! The lens must be right at the fence! PERIOD! And wide 
open or only one stop down.

And if you've focused properly on your subject there wont be any effect from 
the fence. Remember we are talking about long glass, 200mm and up. I've done 
some with the Leica 2.8 100mm macro wide open and it was OK. Anything 
shorter and the chances are "YOU WILL SEE THE FENCE!" Wide open or not.

How does it happen? I don't know and don't care because it works and that's 
all I need to know. Try it! :-)
cheers,
Dr. ted


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Moore" <andrew.nv1b at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] TSA publishes poster depicting photographers as 
terrorists


>> I certainly would " question it " - what is a guy doing shooting long 
>> lens
> through the grid ?
>
> Photographing airplanes? :)
>
> TSA: Thousands Standing Around
>
> NO ARCHIVE
>
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