Hmm. I may just have to put a zoom on and haul the ol' tripod out with
me to work one night.
I could probably set it up and do the break shots myself using the
timer. The multi-exposure function could yield some interesting results,
too.
Hmmmm...
-- Walt
On 2/13/2013 1:52 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
+1 for TAv. I use it quite often with my K20D. I shifted the ISO
ceiling up to 3200 as well. With your K-5 you should set the ceiling
way up at 25K or thereabouts I'd think.
I'd try a shutter down around 1/2 sec for really long ball trails --
at least a few attempts anyway. Your timing would have be dead on, and
I'd think that capturing that initial break would be most fun.
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Walt <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks, Paul.
You certainly got great motion in that shot!
I suspect with the new, darker paint in the pool room, shooting in aperture
priority with the same settings (ISO 1600, f/2.8) I'd get pretty close to a
1/30 shutter speed.
Or, I could just shoot in TAv -- something I never did much of with my K20D.
Pool hall shooting seems like the ideal situation for that shooting mode,
now that I think about it.
-- Walt
On 2/13/2013 12:14 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
Nice shot Walt. You can get good ball motion at 1/30th in most cases. This
pic was shot at 1/30th, f3.2, ISO 6400 with the K-5 and DA* 16-50 at 24mm:
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16915275&size=lg
On Feb 13, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Walt <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks, Bruce.
I only got a couple of shots and the other was framed completely
differently -- he was at the near-end of the table, obscuring most of it.
I'm going to try getting the hang of getting more ball motion. That
occurred to me while I was editing this photo in post. I wonder how much
lower I'd have to drop the shutter speed to get a good sense of the motion?
I can get fairly decent (but inconsistent) results hand-held at 1/30, but
that's focusing on a relatively static subject. I was surprised at how
difficult it was to shoot the action on a pool table compared to drag
racing. Of course, the shutter speed at a drag race is obviously much, much
higher. But, still, timing pool shots was much harder than I'd have
expected.
-- Walt
On 2/13/2013 8:21 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
That's very good, Walt. I like the unusual framing.
Did you happen to get one with more ball motion in it? That could make
for a really cool shot. You'd have to drop your shutter speed down a
lot.
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Walt <[email protected]> wrote:
Here's a shot I took a few nights ago of another one of our resident
characters at the club where I work. This guy is one of the more
cantankerous drunks we have, but once you get a handle on how to deal
with
him, he's a pretty good guy. Like a lot of the people I deal with, he
has
phrases that he tends to lean on when he's well into his cups. "Hey!
Lemme
tell ya somethin'!" "And another thing!" "You talkin' about me?" "Don't
start no shit!"
He also happens to be a really good pool shot and only seems to get
better
the drunker he gets. Here he is shooting a game over the weekend:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/8469249067/
K-5, FA 50/1.4, f/2.8, 1/60 sec., ISO 1600
I thought it was an interesting shot because he looks a bit like a Dick
Tracy character to my eye.
Comments and critiques are, as always, eagerly solicited.
-- Walt
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