Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm impressed by that first picture of the jumping horse. I wonder what your technique was for anticipating the right moment. I would like to cite my own experience for comparison. For a long period, every shot I ever took of a jump was late, and showed the horse descending on the far side of the jump. Awful. Then, one year, I was in a riding class where the instructor insisted that we estimate when we were five strides from the jump, and call aloud: "Four, three, two, one, NOW1) Of course, a person who got it wrong would be very embarrassed, so we quickly learned to estimate that number of strides. The whole point was that if one didn't start voluntarily leaning forward at just the right moment, he/she would lose balance backward and might inadvertently yank on the reins. Well, some years after that, when watching and trying to photograph jumping at a horse show, I thought I'd try the same procedure: mentally count down and press the button on "Now". It worked! Herbert Kanne kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you. On Aug 8, 2013, at 9:59 AM, lrzeitlin at aol.com wrote: > I regret that I have not been out and about much in the last year and I > have few current MOTION shots in my collection. Here is a selection of > pictures depicting Motion (or lack of Motion) from my LUG album. Most were > taken around my home or of family in the last couple of years. I find it > much harder to take decent action pictures with digital cameras than I > ever did with film. I have not calibrated my trigger finger to deal with > shutter delay or exposure lag. Back to the Leica M3, I guess. > Larry Z > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Show_horse_training/Regal+jumps+to+win.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Summer+soccer+2.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/It_s+still+alive_.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Railroad+crossing.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Airbourne+horse.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/A+good+fall.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Paper+bird.JPG.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Spinnaker+run.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Abandoned+diesel+locomotive_+Croton+Yards.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Seaplane+6.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Wrecked+boat.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Dive_001.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Basketball.jpg.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information