Mission Impossible: A Drive By

Naturally everyone looks for the perfect settings to take pictures; but what when conditions are not right, you can’t set up a tripod, wait for perfect cloud cover and all? Many people stop taking pics, but to me that is when the fun begins and it is great exercise for being ready and kinda “paparazzi style” in just holding the camera steady and firing to see how it comes out later. I do not recommend this as a real art form but it is a good way to get practice and see the results, I was bored in a car coming back from a road trip and took the opportunity to test my timing and came up with a neat little sequence. I’m most happy with the steadiness of hand I got locked into that shows with most of the baseline level.

It also shows the hazards of this with the wires, tree stumps, window glare, etc that are unavoidable, but in the end I’m glad I got one shot out of it and this picture set.

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Application: Well, hopefully not to many church pics, but it is great in taking picture sets of your kids at play or facial expressions firing away (thought I still primarily advocate setting up a picture traditionally rather then relying on chance) taking pics while you hope to capture just the right one. It can also can be applied to CTP pics and the like provided you are not needing a flash and blasting someone with high powered flashes without a bounce flash, reflectors and all that studio stuff most people don’t have.

Try a drive-by or walk-by today and see what happens, and send them here for me to post for others to see.

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