On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:18 AM, David Mann <[email protected]> wrote: > Same-old, really :) > > I really seriously struggled this time around. Not only did it rain but the > light was getting very dim, even more so than last week. I had to put the > 200mm f/2.8 away and shoot with the 100mm, and even then I felt like I was > pushing my luck. You'll see that a few of the photos I chose are still a > little soft. The runners were the hardest to shoot as they move faster and > the trees weren't exactly helping with the lighting. > > SR does not help much when your subject is moving. It also doesn't help much > when you notice you've somehow nudged the switch to "off". Luckily I found > that one during the swimming stage. > > http://www.multisport.net.nz/photos/714-2010-02-18-frontrunner-surf-n-turf-photos.html > > There's one more race left in the series and it's held in a different > location. I've heard the forecast isn't so good but I'll wait and see as > it's rarely accurate this far out. > > I'm currently wishing the camera had more focus points, with an extra set > closer to the edges. I tend to be using the edges a lot with these races. > I'm shooting at an acute angle to the ocean with a long lens which causes the > foreground to blur so I end up cropping it out.
Surprising number of folks with small "spare tires" under that neoprene. ;-) Another good series - the fog adds a bit of atmosphere. (pun intended) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.
