PRO INSIGHT
Knowledge of the chosen activity is probably the most important prerequisite
for good pictures. Being able to anticipate where the action will take place comes
only with experience. It is all about pointing your camera in the right direction, at
the right time. Being in the wrong place can get you hurt.
For photography there are certain protocols that you might want to investigate:
being quiet at golf matches, not interfering with the course of action, not using
flash, limiting motor drives, staying out of the line-of-sight of participants, etc.
At a championship track meet, amateur photographers were setting off the
hypersensitive sprinters in the 100 meter dash with the sudden noise of their
power winders. The officials had to call back the runners in several heats until
they banned us all for being overanxious.
Finding the right venue, picking the proper place to stand, getting your camera
into unique positions and seeing in a different way, largely negate heavy hardware
that was once necessary. Imagination makes big and little cameras equal.
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