[Leica] Candy Factory #2

[Christopher Crawford]

I did some photos like that of the other rides at the fair, but it didn¹t
work well for the Ferris Wheel.

I couldn¹t take a tripod with me. When I got there earlier, it was too
crowded, and in any case I couldn¹t have carried it around anyway. I am in
very poor health now. I had a stroke in 2013 that left me with the right
side of my body weakened, and I tire quickly. I don¹t do any work with a
tripod that requires a long walk from my car anymore; I just can¹t do it.

I was able to get good motion shots of other rides because they moved so
fast that even at hand-holdable speeds (1/15, 1/10 of second) they still
gave magnificent streaks of colored lights. This ferris wheel moved VERY
slow, so that the motion shots I tried to do with it looked unsharp
without looking like motion. It was ugly. With a tripod and a long
exposure, it might have worked.

A couple weeks earlier at the Three Rivers Festival in Fort Wayne, I did
get some nice motion pics of the Ferris Wheel, as that one moved faster
than the one at the Elkhart Fair. As in Elkhart, I did the photos at the
TRF handheld because I couldn¹t carry a tripod a long distance.

-- 
Chris Crawford
Fine Art Photography
Fort Wayne, Indiana
260-437-8990

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On 8/4/16, 12:29 AM, "LUG on behalf of Ted Grant"
<lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of
tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

>Hi Chris,
>May I suggest a possibility? If all the gear is still in place.
>Make a time exposure while the ferris wheel is in  motion and as we see
>all
>the ground level tid-bits are completely still.?
>Just a passing thought if you feel it "might have some merit?" Certainly
>filling the space with beautiful light in motion?
>Maybe?
>over to you me old son!.
>cheers,
>Dr.ted M.C.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf
>Of
>Christopher Crawford
>Sent: August-03-16 6:03 PM
>To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>; olympus at thomasclausen.net
>Subject: [Leica] Candy Factory #2
>
>Here's my last photo from the 2016 Elkhart County Fair. A little girl was
>buying something from the Candy Factory, a food trailer that sat in front
>of
>the Ferris Wheel.
>
>http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=2448
>
>-- 
>Chris Crawford
>Fine Art Photography
>Fort Wayne, Indiana
>260-437-8990
>
>http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com  My portfolio
>
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