Larry, the other evening we went to a local minor league baseball game (our team is a farm club of the LA Dodgers, the opponent was an Oakland farm team…)
After the game as they were setting up the canon from which a human cannonball was to be fired, I was fussing with my camera, trying to figure best shot sequence, zoom, length, etc, Meg pulled out her phone, set it on video, and prepared to capture the event. Duh. I decided that the K-01 I was using must have video mode, found the right dial setting, and captured an adequate video of the event. But I still regret not having a decent still image of the guy emerging at 70mph from the barrel of the canon… I’ve been to a few air shows and if I were in Alan’s situation I definitely would have been planning on still images rather than video. Stan > On Aug 20, 2021, at 1:58 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Aug 20, 2021, at 6:45 AM, Alan C <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Tried my hand at something different. Thanks for all the advice. K5 & HD >> 55-300. Ended up MF TAV 1/1000sec f8 but not easy. Only about 5% keepers. >> High aerial shots are heavy crops. Very challenging - obviously needs lots >> of practice. > > 5% keepers is a very respectable ratio. > >> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/albums/72157719758969510/ > > And that’s a very respectable set. > > It occurs to me that while we’re sitting here complaining about the > difficulty of shooting photographs of aerobatic planes, Cotty is probably > having a good laugh and thinking we should try getting video. > > > -- > Larry Colen > [email protected] > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
