Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ken Carney OFFERED: Subject: Re: [Leica] Saturday sports photography > Ted, > > Thanks for the kind words. Grandson, actually - he is pretty talented and > has been to a number of football camps. I had never done sports > photography > before, but instead of "that's nice, click" I think it is click click > click > click and hope for the best :). > Best regards, > Ken Carney<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Hi Ken: No this kind of machine gunning the scene of action of the sport doesn't necessarily mean you're going to get good, great or whatever special photos when covering sports. Too many of the lads who use motor drive cameras believe all they have to do is squeeze on the shutter release and the motor-drive firing away is going to grab the magical moment! "NOT SO AT ALL!" When motor drives came to be, many many news photogs and others figured they had it made for great action! Not so, simply because the motor doesn't see the action! You the photographer must know the game, watch and re-act to the moment "CLICK!" The shooters re-action to the action is what makes great sport action photos! Not that machine gunning motor drive. Yep the trick is "you the photog react to action...."click " then follow through with a machine gun burst?" Hopefully catching the after effects of the initial action! If any? Even that doesn't always work? Using digital machine gun cameras is great as rarely do you have to change a card. In the days of film you constantly had to be conscious of "HOW MANY FRAMES LEFT?" Forget that? And the absolute magical moment is silent because it's "LOCKED ON FRAME 37!" The Non-existing frame! :-( Today motor drives screaming off "TWENTY FRAMES A SECOND" wildly capturing zero many many times! What is the success? It's the photogs re-action to the action! As simple as that! Your welcome! :-) It also comes from shooting hundreds of sports of all kinds from a pee wee hockey game to the 100 meter finals at the Olympics or the many other International Games held around the world!! :-) cheers, Dr. ted