[ratpack] Re: Tough picture
- From: humminboid@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:53:58 +0000 (UTC)
'sokay...I prolly deserve it...just one caveat...don't ever let anything
electronic know you're in a hurry!
Fuzzy focus strikes again! Found my 70-300 VR is not perfect...I CAN overcome
the VR by pointing it straight up, or being a bit wobbly on the feets. Looked
just like "reverse panning blur", it did!
Drat, and it's a Nikon, too!
I just gotta get those up-the-tailpipe shots for dramatique effect, ya
know! ....hmmmm... Definitely more learning curve ahead...other wise, couldn't
be happier. My keepers have increased by magnitudes, especially at full zoom!
I'm happy as a pig in slop!
Boy, those Blue Angels put on a GOOD show. Pixes later, whenever I get the
ambition... card reader is farbeling...needs replacement.
You guys are a Baaaaadddd influence on me...mostly full auto Paul...I took 450+
images, closer to 500 with the ones that I deleted, in the 6 hours of the air
show. That's a first for me, but that's how I get around airplanes. I found
I'm just not fast enough for the jets making a high-speed, low level pass!
Ferraris do that , too.
The medical services tent was the only shade around. Told them I was diabetic
and feeling a bit light-headed (true) and they gave me water, and fed me
crackers and trail mix. Nice people. Altogether, a good day!
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From: "Ray Buck" <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 11:28:13 PM
Subject: [ratpack] Re: Tough picture
Aha! Reverse panning blur! I tried to sell that concept, but Carl just
wouldn't buy it. :) No, Fuzzy, I'm not pickin on ya. Just yankin yer chain a
bit. Photo attached.
Dr. Z, ya done right good. That's a great photo. The action is shown with the
moving bike; the finish line is depicted just as the mental image would have
it: Static, unmovable and a "constant," if you will.
It's outer space, man...sumpthin like that.
"More fotos! More fotos" as heard over the roar of the greaspaint and the
smell of the crowd. :) (Yes, I'm tired and gettin goofy from fatigue.)
I wuz gonna shoot the car show in Kamas today. From the outset, the little
voice in the head kept saying, "bag it, man." But I didn't listen. I should
have. When I got there, it took collaboration between my GPS and the dumb-ass
smart phone (I'm jumpin ship as soon as I can. Motorola just ain't cuttin it
with promised upgrades) to find it but eventually I got to the designated
location....only to find that I couldn't get within blocks of the show, since
it was surrounded by a whoop-de-do festivities like a county fair and
apparently a rodeo. So I did what my head had been telling me. I went back
home (after picking up something to eat and drink on the road) and then I
undertook a project, the sanity of which is still in question. I installed the
legal copy of PhotoShop CS5 on the Dreadnought mainframe. Strange as it might
seem, once I got all the pertinent data from my daughter-in-law, the install
went perfectly. Now all I have to do is learn how to run the damned thing. I
sure miss customizable toolbars. Maybe there's a back way into that so I don't
have to go searching for menu options. But it runs and now I need to install
it on my laptop, too.
Next: I got the generator, which works fine as far as I've tested it and I've
found a 2-room tent (a boudoir and a sitting room...how Victorian) that I'll be
buying from the guy I'm working with on www.landracing.com to cover the course
prep starting the Monday before SW starts on Saturday. I'm gonna do a photo
journal thing and see if I remember how to write copy for the masses. I did a
lot of that in my marketing minor (undergrad) and maybe some of it will come
back.
Nonetheless, I've got a big job ahead of me...not just that portion, but
shooting a particular pre-dawn shot for next year's SW program cover.
Amazing. If somebody had told me 5 years ago what I'd be doing I just wouldn't
have believed it. So I'll be at Jim Halladay's house tomorrow morning to start
preparing a trailer with scaffolding so I can get to about 20 feet higher than
the standard ground-level shots. I guess I otta do some kind of photo diary on
that project, too. But I have the tent, the generator and the inflatable
mattress...all I need is some carpet remnants and a way of arranging lights for
the "sitting room" where I'll be beatin my head against PhotoShop as the
learning curve continues.
My schedule is so full for the next 9 weeks that I may have to clone myself so
I can get into twice as much trouble. I gotta tell ya, tho: I wouldn't trade
this life for anything....even with the bumps in the road and other little "Big
Corporate Entity vs the small freelancer" problems. I'm finding ways to work
around 'em.
So it's back to work on...whatever seems to be in front of me at the moment.
Right now, that's finishing a coupla posters for one of the small-bore racers
and then doing a prototype of the Spec Mazda poster...then adapt that to the
salt flats cars and bikes. I think I may have found a niche market. We'll
see.
So the periscope is goin down as I dive into this project to get prepared for
the salt flats season.
On a slightly sad note, it appears that Rufus isn't gonna make it to Speed
Week. Too much to do, too many other things with higher priority. And I don't
think I'll have the Monte Carlo ready for World of Speed in September unless I
make some time for it and I don't know if I have the time to spare. There's
always next year.
r
(Hot enough for ya?)
On 7/24/2010 10:04 PM, Michael Wells wrote:
All,
Here's a sample from today's action at Miller. as it turns out this is one of
the toughest pictures to get you can imagine why when you see it. I'll post
more in the next few days.
Dr Z
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Dr. Z
aka Michael Wells
MCWells Photography
mcwellsphoto@xxxxxxxxx
801-850-7279
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