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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:49:51 -0800
From: Jim Brokaw <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] To improve, take more photos.. but to improve,
take fewer photos?
<snipped out the snipped out bit>
This is *SO* true. I got an MD-2 for motorcycle race pictures... I figured
5fps, I'd just pan along and get great pictures. Nope, didn't happen. I got
a lot of 'half-bikes' where the motorcycle is ahead of or behind my pan.
Motorcycles? Who, what, where? Inquiring minds want to know...got
pics uploaded somewhere?
Okay, I can see know that I am going to have to get some of my
motorcycle racing pics scanned and uploaded for you, Jim!
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:48:44 -0800
From: Motor Sport Visions Photography <msvphoto@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] To improve, take more photos.. but to improve,
take fewer photos?
In a message dated 3/14/2002 John Lind writes:
<< If you have kept some of your initial work, go back through and
compare it to your most recent. >>
I keep it all, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Looking back, the
comparison is frightening. But, there are some gems dating back from the
days when I was starting to "figure it out" back in the mid-to-late
1980s (my first photographic passion was abstract nature work when I
first started learning photography in the early 1970s--my mom wishes I
still did more of that today).
<snip>
Confidence and consistency came along
much later. Practice helps enormously, and I can't ever get enough of
that (club shooting helps there a little--but them street cars, even the
500hp ones, are just too darned slow).
It has only been the past few years that I have been able to really
visualize and slow down what I am about to get enough to really
anticipate it predictably. I do this "my way" and "for myself" first and
foremost in hopes that there is something unique that others enjoy when
I share the work with them. Seems to work since my sales are still
trending up--slowly.
I might also mention, our relative newcomer to the list, Stephen, seems
to have this motorsports stuff down real well using OMs too from what I
have seen so far.
Mike, thanks for the nice words. Although I am new to the list, I am
not new to motorsports photography, and have been photographing
motorsports on and off for about 18 years now. I started out on
easier stuff, like vintage cars (CSRG and HMSA, Mike) and progressed
up to Formula Atlantic and IMSA cars, all using my OM-1's and just
three lenses for all that time (the 200 was just purchased in Feb. of
this year; haven't even shot with C.H'.s 300 yet). The most
challenging cars I have photographed were Formula 1 cars with
Kodachrome 64. The cars are just unbelievably fast, and the challenge
is getting a shot that is sharp from one end of the car to the other
while preserving some sensation of speed. e.g. with the wheels and
the background blurred out. I have some cool shots of F1 cars where
you can see through the wheels to their carbon fibre brake rotors
glowing incandescently.
Still, Mike and John Lind's comments bear reflection, and I am very
thankful to have the experience and expertise (and encouragement) of
this list to help me improve my photography, both fine art (which I
still do) and motorsports.
BTW, I just scored on a EX+ condition, minty OM-1N last night on eBay
for 154 clams. Joe Bob says check it out:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1337813739&ed=1016075525&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOA:US:2
I wrote to the seller and had him send me a pic of the bottom plate,
and it only has a few light rub marks on it, which look like they are
either from being mounted on a tripod or a winder, as they look just
like the rub marks from my Winder II on my other two OM-1N's. Cool,
another OM-1...muhahahahaha!
"Cardinal Fang,....put her in the comfy chair"
-Stephen.
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2001 CBR600F4i - Fantastic!
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