Sunday, July 15, 2012

Old Dive's Motorsport Photography School

Lesson 1:

"When panning, watch out for flagpoles."

4 comments:

Speedway said...

Understand completely, Dive. Been there, done that. It'a as though I tried to take a picture of the forest and a tree got in the way. Damn poles. Damn fence.

Ms M said...

But you centered that beautifully.... ;-)

I prefer adding alien bits to people; a sign shooting from someone's head, a tree branch sprouting from an ear.

dive said...

It was far worse in the days of steam cameras, Speedway, as well you know. Having a limited number of frames of expensive film meant that flagpoles and fence posts were costly. At least now we can take hundreds more shots to ensure that we can get a few usable ones.

Ah, those are the classics, Ms.M. That was always one of the joys of getting your pictures back from the developer: seeing what unexpected props had appeared where you hadn't noticed them.

neetzy said...

Hahaha!

Can I use this as an example in my photo class?