At 20:23 4/06/01, you wrote:
>Shel I agree with you here.I recently bought a used AF to help
>with my horse shots(to compliment my K1000 and SP 500)but my manual
>cameras still take the best pic's.I find i concentrate an the
>composition a lot more and pre set the shots.With the AF set on Sports
>i just shoot(although this is very handy for the Dressage shows as
>ths horses are constently on the move and with manual focus if i try
>to pre focus and they do not take the exact route,fuzzy rider)However
>when i have the time i will set the AF on metered manual and treat it
>as such.
I too am shooting a lot of moving horses. For me it is harness racing. I
find it very testing, mainly because a lot of it is at night, or when it's
in the day it always seems to be back lit. <shrug> Add to that the horses
are moving at the best part of 60+ KMH, and their legs many times that.
I've found that if I meter the shots before I start shooting I can
concentrate on the composition and focusing.
I usually let the camera do the focusing, and that is usually the least of
my problems. I don't know how many shots of a crisp, sharp [insert
immovable object here] with a motion blurred image of a horse in there
somewhere. :-)
>Many times i look at my results from a show and are not happy but the
>people i shoot are so i quess that counts for something.I have and
>will always try to improve my photography as this is what i love to
>do and WANT to be better
I know that feeling. My benefit is that I don't sell the photographs I
take, so all I have to please is me. Sometimes that isn't an easy thing to
do, but when I feel like I get it right there isn't a better feeling in the
world.
Cheers
Jon
Relax! Take life as it comes, you can't chase the sun, you can't race the wind
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