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Subject: [Leica] Winter Olympics
From: leowesson at gmail.com (leo wesson)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 08:03:02 -0600
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Jayanand,

>From my experience, shooting at 8 FPS just gives you 8 times a second
to miss the shot.

Leo Wesson
Photographer/Videographer
817.733.9157
www.leowesson.com



On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Doug,
> If you are shooting sports, you will be shooting at 8+FPS and using 
> advanced
> autofocus anyway, probably remotely controlling your camera, placed in an
> otherwise inaccessible spot, as well. It is the nature of the beast
> nowadays.
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at 
> earthlink.net>wrote:
>
>> Gary Todoroff wrote:
>>
>> >Thanks for the link, Jayanand. This week's class that I am teaching
>> >at College of the Redwoods is on sports photography, and that online
>> >collection you pointed to is one of the best I have ever seen. The
>> >action and emotion, even humor, is amazing in every frame. What a
>> >delight it will be tomorrow to show students such fine sports 
>> >photography!
>> >Gary Todoroff
>> >
>> >At 06:46 PM 3/2/2010, you wrote:
>> >>Stunning!
>> >>
>> >>http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/03/vancouver_2010_part_2_of_2.html
>> >>
>> >>Cheers
>> >>Jayanand
>> >
>>
>> Just remind the students that this set of photos isn't the work of a 
>> single
>> photographer making a single exposure at a time. ?It's selected from the
>> photos of hundreds of photographers who work at 8+ fps.
>>
>> Doug Herr
>> Birdman of Sacramento
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>>
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr) ([Leica] Winter Olympics)
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