http://www.paullesterphoto.com/wordpress/2008/04/19/slightly-perplexed/ Living through the lens Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:18:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.paullesterphoto.com/wordpress/2008/04/19/slightly-perplexed/comment-page-1/#comment-8084 Paul Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:13:49 +0000 http://www.paullesterphoto.com/wordpress/?p=1654#comment-8084 @Bob: That's an excellent suggestion! Look for the post in the next couple of days, perhaps tomorrow, if I have time to do it. @Bob: That’s an excellent suggestion! Look for the post in the next couple of days, perhaps tomorrow, if I have time to do it.

]]> http://www.paullesterphoto.com/wordpress/2008/04/19/slightly-perplexed/comment-page-1/#comment-8081 Bob Wong Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:58:38 +0000 http://www.paullesterphoto.com/wordpress/?p=1654#comment-8081 Paul, I would appreciate it if you would write an article describing how a parent might go about photographing their kids basketball games (From my lurking on your blog, you look like the just the man with the skill set for the job). It's not so much that I would appreciate it (No basketball son) but that the rest of the world might. Some background. Back when I wanted to shoot my son's hockey games I scoured the net for some recommendations and came up empty handed. I even looked looked for basketball info figuring it was close enough to hockey, again no luck. Now that I have some experience with hockey I realize how valuable that experience could be for others (It's not as straight forward as one would think). Someone needs to get this sports photo experience thing written down. I went back through all your old posts to see if you had done the job already, but no luck. I did however run into an interesting quote of yours that illustrates why this experience info is not that straight forward, "Getting close to the action is no problem. The problem is getting far enough away from the action. They gyms are pretty small and, to get the best vantage points, I had to sit on the top row of the bleachers." from post "http://www.paullesterphoto.com/wordpress/?p=176". I've taken a crack at writing the hockey photo notes down on my blog over at http://rvewong.wordpress.com/ You might want to check it out as an example of what I'm talking about. My blog is primarily about photography and quite new. Despite this limitation,I notice almost all search traffic that gets there has to do with one post I wrote about Hockey Photography (I figure there must be a demand for this sort of thing). By the way I've started on a similar thing for hockey video that you might find useful for your video work. It's going to be large and not finished for a some time, right now it's still a work in progress, but I've left it open to the public as I work on it's warts. "Anything is Better than Nothing", this later quote the only piece of advice my father gave to me when I went off to university, handed to him by one of his Engineering professors. P.S. If you know of anyone else with similar experience please yank their chain... Regards, Bob Paul,
I would appreciate it if you would write an article describing how a parent might go about photographing their kids basketball games (From my lurking on your blog, you look like the just the man with the skill set for the job). It’s not so much that I would appreciate it (No basketball son) but that the rest of the world might.
Some background. Back when I wanted to shoot my son’s hockey games I scoured the net for some recommendations and came up empty handed. I even looked looked for basketball info figuring it was close enough to hockey, again no luck. Now that I have some experience with hockey I realize how valuable that experience could be for others (It’s not as straight forward as one would think). Someone needs to get this sports photo experience thing written down. I went back through all your old posts to see if you had done the job already, but no luck. I did however run into an interesting quote of yours that illustrates why this experience info is not that straight forward, “Getting close to the action is no problem. The problem is getting far enough away from the action. They gyms are pretty small and, to get the best vantage points, I had to sit on the top row of the bleachers.” from post “http://www.paullesterphoto.com/wordpress/?p=176″.
I’ve taken a crack at writing the hockey photo notes down on my blog over at http://rvewong.wordpress.com/ You might want to check it out as an example of what I’m talking about. My blog is primarily about photography and quite new. Despite this limitation,I notice almost all search traffic that gets there has to do with one post I wrote about Hockey Photography (I figure there must be a demand for this sort of thing).
By the way I’ve started on a similar thing for hockey video that you might find useful for your video work. It’s going to be large and not finished for a some time, right now it’s still a work in progress, but I’ve left it open to the public as I work on it’s warts. “Anything is Better than Nothing”, this later quote the only piece of advice my father gave to me when I went off to university, handed to him by one of his Engineering professors.
P.S. If you know of anyone else with similar experience please yank their chain…
Regards, Bob

]]> http://www.paullesterphoto.com/wordpress/2008/04/19/slightly-perplexed/comment-page-1/#comment-8080 Anita Jesse Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:32:38 +0000 http://www.paullesterphoto.com/wordpress/?p=1654#comment-8080 Tricky aren't they—these plans we make? There is a lot of that vapor going around. It's a little like those dreams where you are reading a map or directions and the paper disintegrates before your eyes. Oh, well, this means I may see paths that otherwise would have been overlooked. Tricky aren’t they—these plans we make? There is a lot of that vapor going around. It’s a little like those dreams where you are reading a map or directions and the paper disintegrates before your eyes. Oh, well, this means I may see paths that otherwise would have been overlooked.

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