From: cptomes (cptomes@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 11:59:08 EDT
I forgot to say that I have the camera in manual mode, and switched
the focus to spot and I think to focus and hold? My images are at
home so I can't look at them with NikonView and see the settings...
--- In NikonCoolPix@yahoogroups.com, "cptomes" <cptomes@h...> wrote:
> On my 4300 (at close ranges, ~20 feet) I find a good target to
focus
> on that will be in the frame when I want to take the shot, and push
> the release halfway. The camera then holds that focus. I track
the
> bike through its path of motion until I get to the selected
> background and then push the rst of the way. By the end of the day
> last Saturday (the first time I had ever used that camera, all
prior
> work I have done with a Canon EOS 35mm) just about every shot was a
> keeper with the bike filling ~75% of the frame.
>
> Longer distances are an issue. You didn't say whether you were
> tracking the cars at speed, or just trying to get them in the
corner
> when they happened to be there. That extra ~2 sec of lining up the
> car in the frame really helped for me.
>
> Complete amateur here...
>
> --- In NikonCoolPix@yahoogroups.com, "avidgamefan"
<avidgamefan@y...>
> wrote:
> > Oh, one thing I have done, particularly when I went to an air
show,
> is
> > move the camera along with the subject, pressing the shutter while
> > moving. This reduces the motion blur. I got very acceptable
shots,
> > even with planes moving 400 MPH close by.
> >
> > Then again, sometimes motion blur looks good, particularly on a
> > racecar. Sometimes a bit of blurring in the right places will
work
> > for ya. (I say this as a strictly ameteur photographer, mind
you.
> > :-) )
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