New Gear. Drool!!!!

[Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com]

Sports photography has never interested me (because sports don't interest me), but the best street photographers do have to have an inordinate amount of patience.

[Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com]

Which brings me back to another reality I've found: unless you relate to your subject, you're wasting your time, in my opinion.

[Todie@adobeforums.com]

Horse-back-riding is a sport no matter how you look at it : )

[Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com]

Never, Todie, never!

[Todie@adobeforums.com]

You're funny!
(yes, you are: )

[ashley_karyl@adobeforums.com]

Linda, have you considered getting a hand held meter and working in manual? I still use mine a lot of the time even though many photographers stop doing so with digital. The point is that a good hand held meter will teach you more about light ratios than any built in matrix metering.

[Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com]

Todie,

The father of modern equestrian arts was the great master François Robichon de la Guérinière. His great masterpieces still reign supreme today and define riding as an art and as a science in every one of its many facets.

L'art équestre <http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/actualites/celebrations2001/gueriniere.htm>. Notice the name of the site “[url]www.culture.gouv.fr/culture[/url] …”.

[Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com]

Ashley,

I don't go anywhere without my hand held meters. At this stage, however, I believe Linda has already been overwhelmed with advice.

[Todie@adobeforums.com]

Ramón, I'm not going to search for it, but I'm convinced that there is proof of... The Art of Curling : )

Three months before the Olympic Games (which will demonstrate the Art of Every Sport), is not the right time for this argument.

Ooops! I found it:
<http://www.nt.net/~suedave/tac.html>

(how'bout the sport/art of fencing?)

[LRK@adobeforums.com]

Shedding light from my perspective...

I know this might be hard to believe, but the reason I have not taken many pictures is because I have been trying to learn and understand about SLR, reading and rereading, from a book I bought, printouts off the internet, the owners manual, studying the camera over and over, taking notes, and reading some more... trying to get a grasp on how all the factors play together. The info goes in but doesn't always stick. Today I began practicing with my indoor shots. I thought maybe if I shoot some, then continue to study, the lights will turn on and I will begin to grasp the concepts. For some people learning comes easy. For others it's blood, sweat, and often tears. That's who I am.

[Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com]

Don't get me started about the Olympics either. That's a nasty affair, not what I would imagine sports should be.

During the pre-olympic games in 1968 (or thereabouts) I was given a membership in the measuring committee for the sailing competitions. With the single honorable exception of the American and the Spanish entries, every single other competitor was caught in gross violations, that included Frenchmen, Hungarians, Brits, Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, you name them. They would fill the bottoms of their craft with water or affix all kinds of heavy tools with wires to the underside of the tops in order to meet minimum weight requirements, would artificially and temporarily shrink their sails in mobile dryer-heaters so they would be within the maximum allowable sizes (and of course would rapidly expand as they absorbed water from the humid tropical air later), etc, And their attitude! Such disgusting, despicable, conceited, arrogant little cheaters.

I was thoroughly revolted and have never paid any attention to any Olympic games afterwards.