I agree with everything in your post. My advice of getting and using a tripod was based only on Larry's condition of sharpness and image quality.
My personal way of shooting is handheld for about 95% of my shooting, tripod for night, long exposure and self portraiture, and a monopod during events where light is low and I need portability. I also accept the results of shooting handheld even if that means that my pictures aren't necessarily tack sharp all the time. On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:47 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > A developing theme certainly seems to be forming: that of slowing it down, > taking your time, "getting it right". > > And that's great advice. > > There are situations, however, where that just isn't possible. A photo will > appear for a very brief time and if you don't snap ~now~ it will be lost > forever. The choice is sometimes between getting the (technically imperfect) > photo and getting nothing. > > At times like that it's important to be as prepared as possible by > understanding the "prevailing conditions" and being as ready as possible to > do almost anything in a very short period of time. If you snap and the photo > is "still there" be ready to then consider what adjustments might be > important in the time you have to re-adjust. > > I think that one of the things that is happening here is that we're getting > comments from photographers of different genres. Obviously a studio > photographer, a sports photographer, a nature guy and a PJ all have different > standards of technical requirement, different equipment available to them and > different time frames in which to work. > > Cheers, > frank > > "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- > Christopher Hitchens > > --- Original Message --- > > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> > Sent: May 30, 2012 5/30/12 > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Improving the technical quality of my photography > > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 5:18 PM, [email protected] > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Wow! That's a very complicated way of saying "get the focus and exposure >> right, keep the camera as still as possible." > > Mark! > > When I want the best technical quality in my photos, I use a tripod, > focus critically (manually), and use a light meter to assess the > correct exposure. > > More important than all of that, I slow way down and think carefully > of what I'm trying to achieve first, form a plan to achieve it, then > execute the plan carefully. > > -- > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.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. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.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.
