On Thu, March 28, 2013 6:47 am, David J Brooks wrote: > Hi all. > > An acquaintance of mine (he was the guy that started our local > community radio station) has a step son that is doing very well as a > trampolinist, trampologist, er, well he jumps on a large rubber band. > Any way, he won a championship last week, and Jim asked me if i would > come up and do some action photos to send to a trampllinist, > trampologoist, big rubber band magazine. > It is indoor, will be around 56//;30 PM so sun will be on its way > down, and indoor lighting at the trampoline place. Any tips from > anyone who has tried this.??
Why should lack of experience stop any of us from making suggestions? I find that ignorance is a much more comfortable position from which to give advice. > I will bring the k-5 but my only fast > lenses are primes, 50, 77 and the 100. He will just be practicing, so > if flash is ok, i thought i might try and do rear curtain flash and > try and get some motion blurs like Stenquest does with his cars shots. I suspect that the principles are very much the same as with photographing horses. I've seen lots of good advice already. Some thoughts that come to my mind are: I would rather shoot manual exposure than auto. I find that a spurious light in the background is more likely to fool the metering than the lighting is likely to change beyond the dynamic range abilities of the camera. Pay attention to the background. Will there be ugly pipes or something on the ceiling that will detract from the photo? Can you get the flash (again, ideally in manual) off the camera and pointed to any sort of useful position? Maybe the kids father could stand a few feet off to your side and keep the flash pointed at him while he is rubber banding. This could have an advantage of not illuminating ugly ceiling behind the kid. Can you do anything to change your angle? Shoot from the bleachers? On top of a ladder? Jumping on another trampoline? In cases like this, I find that it is best to experiment, try lots and lots of different things on the assumption that the techniques that give the most totally blown shots will also give the coolest shots when they work. > > Dave > -- > Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > York Region, Ontario, Canada > > -- > 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. > -- Larry Colen via squirrelmail -- 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.
