[LRflex] Re: Pole Bending
- From: David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:59:11 -0700
Good Morning, Ted!
You wrote:
David Young showed:
<http://www.furnfeather.net/Temps/Dust.htm>http://www.furnfeather.net/Temps/Dust.htm
Hi David,
An excellent action picture including the dust.
Thanks!
The rider has her tongue between her teeth in
concentration, The depth of field covers the
sharpness of both the horse?s head/face and the
rider? usually one or the other can be soft in this on coming type action.
Smaller film formats (minox, 16mm, etc.) always
seem to display a greater inherent DOF. This is
also true of the 4/3rds sensor. At roughly 1/4
the area of a 35mm film frame, if offers more DOF
at the same focal length & aperture. Not so
startlingly wide as in the Minox (2' to infinity,
wide open!) but enough to gain the DOF range shown in this photo.
You must be amassing a fine collection of rodeo
pictures. I?d hope you are also watching for the
sponsor logos behind and around the actions
purely as ?FOR SALE? images to said sponsors. Or
media requests as well as stock images. And
every week when you have your usual smashing
photos you contact every sponsor with photos you
have with their name clearly visible in the frame.
I have submitted several (you'll remember last
years bronc rider with the Wrangler sign in the
background). All have been met with a very
polite refusal. The sticking point is model
releases. It seems that, these days, if you
haven't got the release, when you submit, you're dead in the water.
The real problem is that you cannot even get them
afterwards ... for a cowboy will often do one
rodeo in the morning and move out within minutes
of his last contest, so that he can be at another rodeo in the afternoon.
I've done much better, posting rodeo photos on
the web. Cowboys (and girls) and their families
then order prints. This has provided many
hundreds of $$ in sales, so far. As well, if I
am contacted by a cowboy who is in a "saleable"
photo, I offer him an extra free print, in return
for a signed model release. Most (but not all) will go for that!
Once again another fine action photograph!
Actually it must look great as a 13X19 size print!
Haven't got that far, yet, but I think I will!
As you go from one rodeo to the next, do you
take an 8.5X11 print in envelope ready for
immediate sale to the riders, families and friends?
Many of them must do the circuits every weekend
so have a print along can automatically put
dollars in your pocket. Besides, by now you must
becoming ?THE RODEO SHOOTER OF THE DAY!? to
competitors and crowds so they? almot
automatically expect you to come along with a
photo of thm in action. Trust me they don?t
always have to be the ?million dollar shot?! J
There are many rodeo circuits and the cowboys
you see at one rodeo are usually not at the
next. Very frustrating. Thus, I don't take
prints, but a small "brochure", just 1/6th of a
letter sized sheet, telling 'em where they can
find my photos. These I give away, liberally, and it seems to work.
Thanks, as always, for your advice, both business and photographic. :-)
Cheers!
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David Young
Logan Lake, BC
Wildlife Photos: www.furnfeather.net
Rodeo Photos: www.galleries.furnfeather.net
Personal Website: www.main.furnfeather.net
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