Re: WAS: Leica using photographers..NOW USING A 400MM LENS! ;-).

Ted:
When I'm photographing Cooper's hawks in the urban wilds, there's usually something to lean against. Just in case, I bump up the ISO to the noise limits to get a high shutter speed, and hold my breath when I shoot.
For bike races on the road, there may be nothing to lean against, so I'll always use the fast speed with no breath trick. That's what I'll be doing tomorrow when the Amgen Tour of California finishes a stage in San Jose. 

Mark Bohrer
Wildlife Photography on the Urban Edge
www.mountain-and-desert.com


At 10:19 AM 2/20/2007, you wrote:

Mark Bohrer offered:
Subject: RE: some ! Leica 400MM using photographers...:-)
The other trick I use with the Telyt is a monopod. Lean yourself against some vertical support to minimize horizontal shaking, and the monopod takes care of vertical shake.<<<
Well said Mark. However shooting the Olympics at some events when your in the tangle of 400 photographers working everything from a 300mm to 1250mm Canon it's really tough trying to find some thing vertical to lean on. ;-) As everyone wants the same leaning spot. ;-)
So you use the highest possible shutter speed and widest possible aperture on a monopod..... you are not allowed to use tripods at anytime!!! And hope you don't get bumped at precisely the wrong moment of teh action happening. Oh yeah and you do all this with probably someone else's 400 or longer over each of your shoulders from behind! ;-)
It can get down right cuddly with lenses protruding all over the place. But there's absolutely no excuse for missing a picture so you make the best of it. Oh yeah and you do all this with manual focus Leica glass! 

ted



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