On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 12:16:46PM +0200, Tim ??sleby wrote: > No; it is Bird In Fall. > > First I shotgun them, and then I photograph them while they are falling. > The hard part is to get them in frame while they are high in the air. > Thats the goal, because the sky gives a cleaner background. > > I'll share the basic tecnique. > You have to have the camera strapped around the neck, and no strap at > the shotgun. You shoot from the hip, and drop the shotgun directly, > and then grab the camera, while the shotgun still is in the air. You > can't shoot from thee shoulder, because the shotgun will get in the > way of the camera while being dropped. > > It's a complicated sport, but the pictures will get you viewers attention.
That's the hard way. The easy way is to use a simple clamp to fix the camera to the barrel of the shotgun, and put a microswitch behind the trigger for the shutter release. Then it's just like using a double-barrelled shotgun with two triggers. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
