Tips for taking good pics @...

[Penguin_101_1]

the U.S. Senior Open. I know I should wait for them to finish their swing.

[Steveo31]

Don't really wanna say it, but spray-and-pray works well for this kinda stuff. Watch them in the viewfinder and when it looks like they are about to get the ball, hold that shutter down.

Digital of course. Film it might not be too efficient.

[Penguin_101_1]

Don't really wanna say it, but spray-and-pray works well for this kinda stuff. Watch them in the viewfinder and when it looks like they are about to get the ball, hold that shutter down.

Digital of course. Film it might not be too efficient.

That is the problem. The clicking, beeping, ect. will distract them and I am sitting at the entrence and I miss the rest.

[John_T]

Go into the Menu and turn the sound off. No?

[Tom W]

Definately turn off the sound. Use a telephoto and stand way back (if you can get an open view), so as not to disturb the golfers. Much as I hate what Tiger's Caddy did of late, there's no need to provoke such an incident. Make sure you are even allowed to have a camera on the premises before you venture out, as you can be turned away if the course prefers that.

[Belmondo]

I live within walking distance of one of the golf courses used for the Bob Hope Classic, and had a chance to observe some of the professional photographers performing their craft during the tournament. Those who were shooting live play were kept a considerable distance from the action. Long lenses --- make that very long lenses --- were an absolute necessity. The big guns were all shooting 600mm.

[IndyJeff]

Why is it that a pithcher has to listen to crowd noise and still do his craft?

Why is it a kicker in football must concentrate to hit a game winning field goal with the home teams crowd screaming at the top of their lungs?

How can a basketball player shoot a free throw with the entire home team crowd yelling, stomping and waving those funny, floppy foam tubes behind the basket?


Here's a suggestion....golfers get over yourself. Learn to live with some noise and practice your craft. Heaven forbid someone ripps off a loud fart or coughs and you should lose your concentration. Besides being the most boring thing on TV since a test pattern, golf and golfers need to learn to play the ball where it lies with all the elements coming into play and that includes noise.

[Tom W]

Why is it that a pithcher has to listen to crowd noise and still do his craft?

Why is it a kicker in football must concentrate to hit a game winning field goal with the home teams crowd screaming at the top of their lungs?

How can a basketball player shoot a free throw with the entire home team crowd yelling, stomping and waving those funny, floppy foam tubes behind the basket?


Here's a suggestion....golfers get over yourself. Learn to live with some noise and practice your craft. Heaven forbid someone ripps off a loud fart or coughs and you should lose your concentration. Besides being the most boring thing on TV since a test pattern, golf and golfers need to learn to play the ball where it lies with all the elements coming into play and that includes noise.

I do agree, but that's just the way golf is. The cheers from the adjacent green when a ball is put into the cup from 50 feet is somehow not disturbing, but the faint click of a shutter somehow is. That's weird.

Anyway, if the course owner says "no cameras", then there probably shouldn't be any cameras (though CBS, NBC, ABC, BBC, FOX, and all the others don't seem to have a problem getting in with their equipment. Hmmmmnnnnn......

[Penguin_101_1]

I can only have cameras during their practice rounds so it isn't as important. I have turned the sound off but there is still the auto focus.

Tom: I am sure they would let me have a camera for the big $ they give the course and the advertising of the course.

[mwinog2777]

Take pictures of an amateur tourney, and say it was the U.S. Open. No one will know the difference.

[Tom W]

Take pictures of an amateur tourney, and say it was the U.S. Open. No one will know the difference.

And if you can put a footprint on your Canon lens, you can claim that you took a picture of Tiger Woods.

[Penguin_101_1]

Ok. This is going to sound weird in a Canon forum. I was in the camera store today and I had the guy look up lens for my Minolta x-700. He found a 500mm f/8 for $150. Now I think that this is NOT what I want becuase it would be too dark and show for golf but what do you think?

[Penguin_101_1]

Anyone have suggestions on the lens?

[Belmondo]

f/8 is going to require a pretty slow shutter. It might be okay for landscape shots from a tripod, and maybe even some wildlife shots (if they're not moving), but for sports shots or anything that's moving, it would be pretty useless without cranking up the ISO to a point where you're going to introduce a lot of noise into your photo.

[Penguin_101_1]

Thats what I thought.
Thanks!