Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Keep your camera dry ;-) When I do sailing pictures I took up the Sharon Greene method of putting the camera into a picnic cooler dedicated to this task and closing the lid before the driver of the boat I am in starts off. I got a large one at Wallmart for about thiry dollars which will hold my camera with the 400 2.8 mounted and a second body with the 105-280. Cheap insurance for your expensive cameras. There is lots of spray when you are photographing from a power boat. As for exposure, use an incident meter or the sunny 16 rule if it is sunny. The in camera meter can be fooled with bright coloured boats and the reflection of the sun on the water. As tempting as the big picture may be, fill the frame with something of interest rather than a bunch of boats. Be insistent with the driver of you boat to get you in close enough and at the agnle you want. If it is Sunny, you will need to shoot with the sun to your back, or otherwise the boats will be dark silhouttes. Regards, Robert At 03:56 PM 9/13/99 EDT, you wrote: >My Leica's and I have been invited to Lake Winnapesaukee next weekend for a >steamboat gathering. We'll have an older Chris-Craft, or some such boat, at >our disposal. Any tips form the group on photographing this annual event? > >TIA > >Bruce >Killingworth CT > >