On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 03:14:19AM -0500, Walt Gilbert wrote: > On 7/5/2012 5:37 PM, Larry Colen (On Droid4est) wrote: > >One of the things I've been working on is only taking photos at "the > >decisive moment". One thing that I've noticed is that the better I get at > >waiting for the decisive moment, the better everyone else seems to get at > >stepping in front of my camera just before the decisive moment. > > > >In a similar vein, yesterday a friend was trying to photograph me dipping a > >dance partner at the end of a dance and a pro photographer (press pass) > >stepped right between us to show his photo to someone. > > > That is frustrating. Right up there with people who ruin great shots > by posing when they notice the camera pointed at them.
You get used to that kind of thing if you do much sports photography. At the end of a race, or when a favourite participant approaches, everybody watching stands up, waves their hat in the air, leans forward over the barriers, and generally does just about everything possible (albeit unintentionally) to ruin your carefully planned shot. -- 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.
