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This thread is suffering from overposting by a few members; I have hidden some posts. It is a an unwritten convention that we leave space for other participants. The reason is twofold: Overposting drowns out the other posts and, as important, if one floods a thread, the viewers lose interest and won't even look at those posts any more. It is equivalent to hogging a conversation. So: Please don't make endless posts with a large number of images, they are deadly boring, and don't po
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I wander around my home city of Glasgow a fair bit. I always have either my Leica M Monochrom mk1, or an analogue M loaded with black and white film with me. I think that finding interesting photograp

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A couple more. Cheers, guys.

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15 hours ago, colint544 said:

What a great shot, Tim! That's the frame - no point taking any more once you've got that one. Yes, one frame at a time, and really choose your moment. You've got no choice with an M9 or M9Mono anyway because it can only do something like two frames per second, and it swiftly hits the buffer. And agree that there is a fractional lag when you press the button, so you almost need to press it momentarily before the moment. Satisfying when it all comes together.

I still cover the occasional football match. I have no great interest in football, but I've been doing it for 25 years now. So I've got a feel for how to photograph it. The newspaper only wants one of two things - either the goal being scored, or the celebrations of the players afterwards. And any other drama which might occur. Ideally they want all of that. 

I shoot a Canon EOS 1DX with a 300mm 2.8 lens for football. It's a fantastic all-round press camera. No job really it can't do, and it excels at sport. I think it does 12 frames per second at the highest frame rate. But if you just hold down the button at crucial moments, you can STILL miss the moment between frames. I just press the button in very short bursts, and I try to make the first of those frames really count. I still look for that definitive moment before I'm pressing the button. The frames that come after are really just an insurance policy. The biggest memory card I have is 8GB, and I've had it for ten years.

But I sometimes notice other photographers at the same game, especially the younger ones, and their cameras are going like machine guns for most of the game. I wonder if they're seeing a different football match to the one I see. You get memory cards now with insane amounts of capacity. It's crazy. I can't imagine who could be bothered to look through thousands of pictures afterwards, to pick out the dozen or so that you need. Us older guys just shake our heads.

I'm pretty sure the new Sony press cameras can go at 20+ frames per second. That's movie camera territory. The 'pray' part of spray and pray is almost gone. Spray and definitely get the shot. It's a completely different style of photography and, dare I say it, has slightly de-skilled the job. But then, I'm sure photographers were moaning about the same thing when the zoom lens was invented, or the Speed-Graphic became obsolete.

 

 

The M-16 and AR-15 can work in single shot or burst mode.  Special Operators use single shot.  

A beginner rider corrects a horse after the horse makes a mistake, a good rider corrects the horse during the mistake.  A master equestrian corrects the mistake before it is made.

Often the decision that results in a great photograph is made just before the event occurs.

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Oakland Chinatown

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The mirror behind makes me feel hungry! The whole scene feels like something from a 1940’s Italian movie - love it!

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The mirror behind makes me feel hungry! The whole scene feels like something from a 1940’s Italian movie - love it!

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more or less new here. I enjoyed this thread, makes me feel like getting out there myself.

 

what I found interesting was a sense that some of the folk posting in this thread have mostly a static style but some not. In particular, to my eyes, ‘Likaleica’ really evolved over the past two years and as a result I find Tim’s shots among my favourite. Hope my comment is accepted in the spirit it is offered, a compliment not a criticism.

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more or less new here. I enjoyed this thread, makes me feel like getting out there myself.

 

what I found interesting was a sense that some of the folk posting in this thread have mostly a static style but some not. In particular, to my eyes, ‘Likaleica’ really evolved over the past two years and as a result I find Tim’s shots among my favourite. Hope my comment is accepted in the spirit it is offered, a compliment not a criticism.

Thank you very much, Mr Prime, for your kind and constructive words.  Improvement is what it's all about.  This thread that Colin started is also my favorite, along with the MM1 photos thread.  I've learned a lot as well, looking at the images.  Welcome to the forum and I look forward to seeing your work.

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Glasgow, Scotland

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I feel like I'm getting to know my way around Glasgow, and I've only passed through once.

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All aboard the Street Shooting Train!! and Merry Christmas!

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M10-P, Summilux-M 1:1.4/35 FLE

 

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Motorcycle mommas, Bourbon Street, New Orleans

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On 12/24/2019 at 12:14 AM, Likaleica said:

 

I feel like I'm getting to know my way around Glasgow, and I've only passed through once.

Cheers, Tim. Yes, the iconic Barrowland ballroom. Best music venue in the city. The area used to be pretty rough around the edges, but it is gradually moving upmarket

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A little bit more of Sicily, kind of streetphotos without city...

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Sicily again

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What a nice picture. Is it taken in New Orleans?

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