Larry, I wonder if choosing manually a diff AF sensor would help with
the framing. I'm getting the same problem with the Ds, and will try to
use that to help me point the camera a little lower - I suspect I'm
using the AF brackets as sights, and maybe using one off the center will
help. I'm assuming you were using the viewfinder in a "fast" mode - I
never really managed to shoot from the hip with cameras. I do a lot
better with a Luger... pity they are very choosy about ammo and can't
stand wind-blown sand...
lf
Larry Colen escreveu:
I'm starting to look at my photos from the Folsom Street Fair
yesterday.
I saw a lot of people wandering around with external flashes and a
small diffuser (about the size of the flash) on their camera. I
wondered whether it would do any good in that light. It seemed rather
silly to me.
After going through my shots of the White Rats Experimental Morris,
and seeing all of the problems I had with shade and sun, I think that
I may have to try it myself. Unfortunately, that makes the camera a
lot bigger and more obtrusive. I've also had miserable luck with my
AF-540 in any sort of quirky lighting situation.
I noticed another problem I had with shooting the morris dancers. I
cut off their feet in way too many of the shots, shots where there was
plenty of headroom.
I can see that there's a lot to learn about shooting street fairs, and
it'll take a lot of blown shots to figure it out. It does seem that
playing the numbers by shooting a lot of photos is going to be a key
technique. Another would be to shoot a wider angle than would be
nominal, just so you have room for cropping to make up for the lack of
time to carefully aim, or the lack of ability when "shooting from the
chest".
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Luiz Felipe
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http://techmit.com.br/luizfelipe/
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