Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 15 Nov 2005 at 10:24, Ted Grant wrote: > Show no fear, don't think about how slow the shutter speed is, then > physiologically you beat it. Just think about being right on the mark in > focus and tripping the shutter at precisely the right moment. In my young and stupid days, I spent a fair number of hours on a rifle range terrorizing innocent bits of paper. One of the important things I learned from that was NOT to ever actually think about pulling the trigger. If you pull the trigger, you disturb the aiming point and the balance. If you let the rifle shoot itself, you don't. Practice and practice and practice until you know, within a fraction of a millimeter and a fraction of an ounce and without thinking, just PRECISELY when the trigger will break. When you set up for your shot, you take up just as much of the slack as you possibly can without actually firing, so that there's just no motion required to set it off, and you visualize what you want to see, and then you relax into it...and when the moment happens, the rifle, or the camera, will fire. It's zen, really. Takes Practice. A LOT of practice. But, if you get it just exactly right, you won't even be aware that you're shooting until the rifle hits your shoulder or the camera clicks. (When the situation is such that you can be still and wait for the shot to come to you, it works. Obviously if everything's moving 90 to nothing, you don't have the luxury, but in any case the less motion you have to impart to the camera at the moment of firing, the better.) -- R. Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com Photojournalist rcmckee@rcmckee.com P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell phone # on request