john michael white
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Kendal – No disrespect at all to Ted. If it’s Ted’s place, that’s awesome 🙂 I know he has a huge ranch down here and spends a lot of time down here in Texas.
Yeah Dusty, these were all shot handheld in aperture priority with a wide angle lens. I could have used a tripod, but it would have really slowed me down. I like the blurring in most of the images because I think it suggests action, however the flash I was using at the time did not have rear curtain capability on my new 40D. As a result, there was probably some uneccessary blurring of the guy on the right in pictures 3 & 4.
I got the 580 EX II for Christmas, and now have rear curtain flash capability. Still probably wouldn’t have helped the building/objects in the background that were blurred, but would have made the guy on the right that moved (in picture # 3 & 4) sharp at the edges. If I had used a tripod, the building/objects in the background on # 4 would be sharp, but as it is, I personaly don’t mind them being blurred and kind of like the effect. Others may object to this, I’m not sure.
I am just starting out and trying to build relationships in the magazine industry, so I don’t know that there is much I can do. Of course, in the meantime, you put all of this effort into a submission, and then it may take many months before you finally give up waiting ( and send a follow up email or two) and decide to try another venue. At that rate, it makes it very hard to do business. The lack of a response is extremely frustrating and discourteous, but what can you do if a magazine blows you off??
It would really be helpful to get some sort of feedback so you know how to proceed and whether or not your work is good or bad in their eyes, or just doesn’t fit what they are looking for at the moment.
I guess the lesson is to keep trying and in the future only submit to the guys who at least give you the courtesy of a response – the only drawback being you may run out of people to submit to real quick.
What is a fair amount of time to wait without a reply before submitting to another editor when there has been no reply concerning the original submission, even with follow up emails?
I have had the experience that some magazines reply back every time just as they say they will, …and then others you never hear a thing back from them at all.
Thanks John. That helps a lot.
I find myself not sure how much time I’ll be spending in the 70-200 range as well. What I really wish is that they made a 70-300L to replace my 70-300 f4-5.6. Since they don’t, I find myself stuck with probably needing to buy two lenses – the 70-200L and the 100-400L. I could possibly do with just the 100-400, but that would leave me with a gap between 50-100mm range. I’m not sure how much that would be an adverse effect for me.
I do identify with you when you say you like to shoot mostly wide or at 500mm. But I could see some uses for the 70-200 on stream in order to shoot from a little further away, and also for indoor stuff where a little more reach is needed. Of course for indoors, the 2.8 would be better.
Made me glad I’d never decided to be a guide. They work too hard!
That’s the truth Mick! I really enjoyed the AK Chronicles as well. He has a real salt of the earth writing style and gut splitting funny since of humor.
Been doing some reading the last month or so:
Young Men and Fire – Norman Maclean
1776 – David McCulloughAnd currently in the process of reading a double feature by Teddy Roosevelt called Hunting Trips Of A Ranchman & The Wilderness Hunter These two books were written in 1885 and 1893 and it is really interesting so far. It’s pretty cool to see how much is the same as back then, and yet how much has changed, and of course the more formal writing style used back then makes it interesting as well.
Yeah, believe it or not, it does get cold here….like in the 20’s, but usualy that’s only a few times a year.
Eric,
Were you using the 580’s with straight TTL2, or in manual configurations? Just curious. I really like these shots!
The first three shots really grab me, and I like the perspective on the fourth shot, but for what it’s worth, IMHO, I like the first three better because the hunter is not looking directly at the camera as in the fourth shot. By looking slightly away from directly at the camera, your hunter really gives the feel of expectation/pursuit and stalking game. They make me feel like I am a hunting buddy right there with the hunter, or that I am the hunter. I really like the compostion and pose of the hunter, the gun muzzle, and the rattling antlers in the snow on the fourth shot though.
I like how you have varied the lighting, some soft and more natural, and some more hard. You are ahead of me in off camera lighting, so I can’t offer much with that. The one thing I would say is I think the fourth image would be better if there was just a little more light hitting the hunter’s face, and probably directed from above and camera right.
