When i started to shoot horse, in 1997, i used a K1000 and the A35-70 or A80-200 manual lenses. Like Paul's suggestion, i found the best thing to do is find a good fence, pre focus and shoot when i had what i wanted.
I pretty much still do that today, even with AF lenses. Practice practice Dave On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > Last night I took my camera, a *ist DS, to one of the sites of a recreation > program we run, an outdoor basketball court, in a community that's about 80 > percent low-income, half African American and half refugees literally from > all over the world. I plunked myself down on a bench on the shaded end of the > court, under one of the baskets. The other end was still in direct sunlight. > > I had my 50mm M on the camera, set for continuous shooting. It was my first > attempt at real action photography. Trying to keep focus while the kids moved > from one end of the court to the other, to maintain proper exposure as they > moved in and out of shadow, and to do it all manually was a real challenge. I > kept forgetting punch the exposure lock button to reset the shutter speed as > kids moved around. My feeble attempts at framing shots were largely > ineffective. > > I've only skimmed the images in the camera. There are a handful the kids > would find interesting, but nothing that would impress anyone here. I'm not > disappointed. It was experience. I can get pointers here and from books, > etc., but it is experience that will teach me, that will make other sources > of information meaningful. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > [email protected] > > > > > > -- > 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. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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.
