He has a good eye. It helps that soccer involves a lot of action, but you have to be able to anticipate it, capture it, and then select the right shots while editing. Now if he can figure a way to get action shots at more sedentary sports like cricket or chess, he will truly demonstrate that he is mastering the craft.
stan On Jul 31, 2010, at 4:13 AM, Cotty wrote: > I know some of you like to follow my lad's progress, and to keep it on > topic he was weaned on an *ist DS and still uses it as 2nd camera. Ahead > of studying photography at A level in September, he's started on a > course of building a sports portfolio and I managed to get him into an > English football game last week, Reading v Wolverhampton. Here he is > looking the part: > > <http://www.seeingeye.tv/pages/eyeshots/eyeshot24.html> > > > Only there for the first half (45 mins) in an uneventful game, here are > some pics. ISO 800 on a 4 megapixel 1D with 70-200 f/4 (non-IS) > handheld, artificial lighting. > > <http://www.cottysnaps.com/stefsport/stefsportmain.html> > > -- > > > Cheers, > Cotty > > > ___/\__ > || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche > ---------- http://www.cottysnaps.com > _____________________________ > > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
