Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/02/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George Lottermoser OFFERED: Subject: Re: [Leica] Monochrom metadata and uncoded lenses On Feb 13, 2015, at 11:25 AM, Ted Grant wrote: > WHY? Please give me a simple professional photojournalist's // Sport > Photographers' need to have this nonsense recorded? George responded: any number of reasons come to mind; none of any necessity to shoot now over. Though looking at an image of "the swimmer" wherein his head is perfectly sharp while his hands are giving a gorgeous sense of motion; I may wish to take note of that shutter speed as the magic one for this angle and sport for this effect.<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Hi George Naw you don't make notes because you remember them all. Besides each swimmer has their "speed frame" and what works for one? Isn't worth the time to write a note for the next! Or you have a 100 swimmers to go through as the preliminaries are run through! One only needs a couple, then instinct takes over and you know how much "blurred image"" you want? CLICK! :-) See it's all KISS! :-) Besides the "blur of the hands and sharp head occur because the hands are going in a different direction and speed to the head. So the blur factor sometimes can be the undoing of what potentially was a neat clean photo. >>>> "Likewise a whole slew of other images lack any and all magic. all frozen like stone. I may also wish to take note of what didn't work at all.<<< Well part of the "Frozen like stone" is the clients call who's paying you $600.oo a day or more depending whom? Because they want "Frozen Stone images" so people can see the athlete they are sponsoring! Or up to big poster size etc. The blurred stuff is the easiest simply because the swimmer, runner, race cars etc show the action so one automatically sets a slow shutter speed and pans the camera in the same direction as the moving body figure! ! "BEAUTY!!!!!!!" bLURRRRRRRR! ;-) >>>>You just did all this shit subconsciously dear Ted.<<< Well given after shooting Summer & Winter Olympics a dozen or more times, CANADA GAMES === WINTER & SUMMER a similar number of times! Then throw in the Pan-American games another number. Along with shooting the NHL hockey games, CFL & NFL football games for darn near 40?50 years? Yes ones' mind automatically sets your fingers to adjust cameras without thinking about it! So yes, yer right it becomes subconscious action without thought! But the most important part? You never think about these things as there isn't time to make notes. It's called? "WE LEARN BY DOING!" THE MORE YOU SHOOT? THE BETTER YOU BECOME! ;-) KISS! :-) cheers, ted Regards, George Lottermoser http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com