Photos

[Inliner]

I was wondering if anyone else besides me is into photography and puts that to use in their skiing or boarding. I shot this photo of one of my ski buddies wake jumping on her jump skis. I am not sure if this is going to show up here, but I will try and if not I will attach it.

If anyone else shoots skiing photos, post them up. It would be neat to see what others are shooting. This photo was shot with a Kodak DX 6490 with a 10X optical zoom from the spotter's seat of my Outback. It was set in sports mode when it was shot.

[Zihuatanejo]

I am not a photographer but a buddy of mine is an amature. We plan on making a video this summer of us water skiing and kneeboarding and falling on the wakeboard. he plans on getting in the water for some pretty killer shots but I guess we will see how it turns out. He has a digital video camera and is going to buy water proofing for it and edditing software. If it turns out the way he wants it should be pretty cool. I will put it on line anbd let you know when it's done but it won't be until the end of summer. I also have a friend who does a great impression of will feril doing harry cary, so the harry cary water ski show may be on the video as well. My brother has a poster of himself he got for christmas in his room of him making a killer cut on a glass lake, my parents blew it up to a 16*20, it is a really cool picture, if I could figure out how to post one I would but our digital camera is out of order at the moment. In two weeks I'll get the boat on the water and put up some pics.

[captainfun]

Hey Inliner,
If you want to look at some water sport pics jump over to these links.
Most of these are shot with my d300 from my outback.

Let me know what you think

http://community.webshots.com/album/185069563ttibhl

http://community.webshots.com/album/176358434ZhzMcc


CaptainFun

[Inliner]

That was taken on Lake Kathryn in Casselberry FL. I shot that photo and put it on a birthday cake for the skier in the photo. It is a private lake in Central Florida and where we house our jump ramp and show ski docks.

[Inliner]

Those are some great photos! I am getting ready to shoot some photos this weekend. We are training some jump skiers on Friday and will be tripping the light fantastic on Thursday. I have all three cameras in my truck as we speak in preparation for this weekend. I will shoot you a few more photos if you like and post them.

Originally posted by captainfun


Hey Inliner,
If you want to look at some water sport pics jump over to these links.
Most of these are shot with my d300 from my outback.

Let me know what you think

http://community.webshots.com/album/185069563ttibhl

http://community.webshots.com/album/176358434ZhzMcc


CaptainFun

[captainfun]

I would love to see some more pictures.

You may want to try shooting in Av mode instead of sports mode. When you use the sports mode the camera will set the lens to the maximum aperture to provide the fasts shutter speed. This does stop the action but lowers the depth of field or focus zoon. The focus zone can be is small as a foot with a 200mm zoom lens at wide-open aperture. Try the Av mode with the lens aperture closed in a bit. The pictures will still stop the motion on a sunny day and the whole subject will be in focus.

Good luck.

Darryl

[Inliner]

Darryl,

I will actually have the heavy artillery out on Friday. I use a 35mm setup when that occurs. I have a manual mode on my digital that I will experiment with on Thursday. The bad thing about using the digital is that I have to lock the focus prior to shooting. In skiing photos that isn't too bad as long as they don't get slack line. But in the case of jumping, they will generally get slack line and it throws the photo out of focus. With the 35mm I have the luxury of focusing on the fly, which produces a much better photo in general. I will take your advice and see what happens with the digital. What type of digital camera do you use?

Oh, and BTW, I screwed up about the lake that photo was taken on, it wasn't Lake Kathryn. It was shot on Lake Elbert in Winter Haven. I forgot that we visited a Canadian friend of ours that day.

[captainfun]

Must the shots I have posted were shot with a canon D300 rebel with a 75-300 zoom.
Shot in Av mode at around f9, ISO pushed up to 200. Most shots end up at around 120 -180 mm zoom power. The D300 would only allow AI servo tracking for focusing on a moving object in sports mode, so I suffered the same problem with the rope slack and thus shots out of focus. I sold the d300 last month and am now shooting with a Canon 20d. This unit has all the bells and whistles and shots up to 5 fps. I suffer from memory loss still trying to adjust the settings on the fly with the new unit. A few more outings and things should fall into place.

[mseidelch]

There is a nice article about photography/wakeboard photography on wakeworld. I thinks it's quite good and a great source for "beginners". Here the link to the ARTICLE (http://www.wakeboarder.com/display.phtml?id=553)

Markus

[cobra219]

The article link above is an excellent source for beginners in the field. I am a freelance photographer who specializes in aerial photography and a lot of the same basic rules for good aerial imagery from a plane or helicopter, apply to a boat. Actually my favorite jobs are shooting boats...from a helicopter.

The one thing that I'll add to Garrett's article is motion blur. A boat is a moving platform. Any movement of the camera on shutter release jeopardizes image sharpness. This is made worse when you use a long zoom lens, as the movements are exaggerated even more. So shoot your images at the highest shutter speed practical. Also, try to isolate the camera from movement by letting it float in the air as it's suspended from your hands. Don't let any part of you arms or upper body touch the boat as movement will be transferred to the camera. If you have access to a camera or lens with image stabilization, use it. It will help.

Good luck and have fun with it.

Dave