The first thing to do is look at the negatives. Ofte when I
have been completely dissatisfied with my work a look at the
negative showed that the problem was with the lab.
Second, trying to do photography and something else, in your
case officating at the race, tends to make the photography
not so good.
Third, you have auto exposure on the LX? Why not use it? It
may not give the "best" exposure, but it will seldom give an
unprintable negative.
Fourth, being out of practice does not help. The only way
to get back into pratice is to shoOt some races. And, even
if you are good you go out of practice when you don't do it
for a while.
In other words, YOU ARE BEING TOO HARD ON YOURSELF TOO SOON!
--Tom
Stephen Moore wrote:
>
> 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?
>
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