Maybe a faster film would help? It would allow for both a faster shutter
speed and increased depth of field depending on what you opted for (of
course you already knew this).
Tom C.
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From: "Stephen Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 8:06 AM
Subject: Help with "The Mental Game"
>
> A question, please, to the collective Pentaxian wisdom:
>
> How do you psych yourselves back up out of a slump,
> namely a run of bad results? Or maybe more important,
> how do you psych yourselves so that a run of bad results
> doesn't degenerate into a self-perpetuating slump?
>
> Saturday and Sunday I was out at the first motorcycle event
> at my local road circuit (albeit primarily as a corner marshal
> and only secondarily as a photographer). I thought that at
> the beginning of my fifth season I would have internalized
> enough that I'd start seeing past the details and could
> concentrate on making photographs. This turned out not to be
> the case: It was like I didn't know anything, and Sunday night
> I went away with a really bad feeling that turned out even
> worse than I anticipated when the prints came back yesterday.
> Bad exposure (mostly over), bad color, bad focus, inappropriate
> depths of field, and bad technique -- even on panning, which I
> usually seem to have a knack for.
>
> Even allowing for a possible subconscious paranoia (that I'd have
> to drop the camera in a hurry because a bike and rider would
> come tumbling toward me through the gravel trap), I'm still
> asking myself: How could I have sucked that bad?
>
> (Dirty details: LX w/winder mostly on manual, 70-210A f/4 and
> 300M* f/4, Fuji Reala and Superia 200)
>
> All moral support appreciated...
>
>
> Stephen Moore
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