Thanks a lot , Matthew. Makes sence. Your last remark made me laugh out loud. If you don't mind, I'll forward your mail to her?
Regards Jens -- Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. On Apr 7, 2011 19:20 "Matthew Hunt" <m...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > Chances are that even most of the people on this list, which on > > average > > has pretty high photographic skills, wouldn't get great shots their > > first time > > taking photos of dogs in action. > > My wife competes in dog agility (in the role of the human), and it's > not too hard to get good shots of that, at least outdoors: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/coneslayer/2441122563/ > > The technique is simply to prefocus on the jump, and then it's just a > matter of timing. Keeping both eyes open helps. You can pick it up > quickly, and any current DSLR with a 200 or 300mm kit lens should do > fine. Depends on how close you can get, and how big or small the dogs > are. That picture's from my K10D with Tamron 70-300 at 220mm; the > dog's small (8 lb) but we were in our own yard and I could get close. > > But dogs running around in "free play" is a different matter. Forget > Larry's "first time," I still get few good shots after years of > trying. The K10D autofocus just won't keep up with the dogs, at least > not the fast sort that my wife favors. I know the newer models are > significantly better, but whether they are good enough to lock on to > a > running dog, I cannot say. > > I recommend cats. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
