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Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:42 pm
Mike...thanks for the info. I'll do that.
Mudge the appreciative
Sun Oct 14, 2007 10:48 pm
Hi Nathan,
You are getting lots of good advice there.
Here's another angle, from an editor in magazine and book publishing. If you want to look to having your work published, you aren't aiming to please yourself and impress your friends any more, but find the 'house style' that the editor and readership like and expect for the magazine or books you are looking to be published with; so it's really easy - get the books / magazines and see what they publish, and work towards that.
You may not think you want to be published in a magazine, but if you get an interesting shot, or sequence that no-one else has, you may well be in demand. In that case, it's worth making sure what you've taken in publishable. That generally means reasonably framed, in focus and 'telling the story' - a 'first flight' photo needs to show the aircraft flying, not on the ramp.
As to the prop-blur debate, it's your shot, you please yourself. However, it's a pretty universal rule that no-one likes 'frozen' props on a flying aircraft, as they just look 'wrong'. Choppers are even more of a pain like that, as they can require a slower shutter speed to get any blade arc, which again is generally a good idea.
HTH,