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Title: Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?
Post by: Ripsnort on October 18, 2006, 08:07:54 PM: I have to in the Pacific Northwest.... We've been VERY fortunate this year for football season, hasn't rained but 1 day during our football games.

We've been hired for Washington State Youth Soccer Assc., Semi Finals and Finals (12U-19U teams) on 2 week-ends (Nov/Dec) and guess what...it rains here alot!

I picked up this Probrella umbrella to protect the camera body alittle more. My existing rain hood isn't long enough for my new lens, so I'll have to get a longer one.

Modeling is my youngest Soccer(Football to you Euros) son.

(http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/8668097/197038866.jpg)
(http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/8668097/197038871.jpg)
Title: Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?
Post by: nirvana on October 18, 2006, 08:09:41 PM: I'd have to say i'd prefer that in hot or rainy weather. Especially that hood, nice and dark, and shade!
Title: Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?
Post by: Debonair on October 18, 2006, 08:23:14 PM: Nikonos V bodies are about dirt cheap these days, maybe the RS is too...
Title: Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?
Post by: Overlag on October 18, 2006, 08:26:28 PM: aye, ive shot in some very rainy weather

(http://www.ajwebb.eclipse.co.uk/BrandsHatch/WTCC/sm/IMG_0753.jpg)

(http://www.ajwebb.eclipse.co.uk/BrandsHatch/WTCC/sm/IMG_0768.jpg)

(http://www.ajwebb.eclipse.co.uk/BrandsHatch/WTCC/sm/IMG_0800.jpg)

to view bigger image just remove the sm part of the link
Title: Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?
Post by: Ripsnort on October 18, 2006, 08:28:43 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Overlag
aye, ive shot in some very rainy weather

http://www.ajwebb.eclipse.co.uk/BrandsHatch/WTCC/sm/IMG_0800.jpg
What do you use to protect yer gear?
Title: Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?
Post by: Overlag on October 18, 2006, 08:46:05 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Ripsnort
What do you use to protect yer gear?

i didnt! :eek: i kinda had my BMW baseball cap on, with my rain cap over that as a big cover for my face and the camera (canon S3IS). The rain was coming straight down at first, but that img800 was the last shot because the wind started to pick up and started throwing rain INTO us. i couldnt shoot then as my camera was getting wet.

Instead we went back to the carpark and made a mess of it......

(http://www.ajwebb.eclipse.co.uk/Pictures/haha_Large.jpg)
Title: Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?
Post by: Masherbrum on October 18, 2006, 08:49:11 PM: nice pics Overlag.
Title: Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?
Post by: Overlag on October 18, 2006, 08:59:05 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Masherbrum
nice pics Overlag.

they just the wet ones too..... i really should put some effort into making my website with all my racing/airplane photos on :(

(http://www.ajwebb.eclipse.co.uk/BrandsHatch/DTM/640/IMG_2511.jpg)

a drier day a few weeks later

(http://www.ajwebb.eclipse.co.uk/Pictures/S3IS/London_Heathrow_4June/sm/Img_0973.jpg)

a shot from heathrow... (waaaayyyy too much post picture editing there)
Title: Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?
Post by: Masherbrum on October 18, 2006, 09:11:04 PM: Dumb question mate. You wouldn't happen to have any Senna pics from Silverstone? I saw him in 86 and was too amazed to take a pic.
Title: Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?
Post by: Overlag on October 18, 2006, 09:14:36 PM: nope... i was young then, never got to see him other than on tv...

only been to 2 f1 races, i mostly go brandshatch and DTM, WTCC, A1GP and BTCC miles cheaper than f1

edit: infact i can go to ALL those events, for the same price as 1 F1 event :eek:

oops sorry ripsnort for stealing topic!

how you doing anyway? stopped flying?
Title: Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?
Post by: Masherbrum on October 18, 2006, 09:16:25 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Overlag
nope... i was young then, never got to see him other than on tv...

only been to 2 f1 races, i mostly go brandshatch and DTM, WTCC, A1GP and BTCC miles cheaper than f1

NP. I just figured I'd ask ya. I still like the WRC pics. IMO, they're the best drivers in the world.
Title: Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?
Post by: lasersailor184 on October 18, 2006, 09:23:14 PM: Lol, you haven't seen REAL rain if you think that little getup will protect your camera.
Title: Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?
Post by: Enduro on October 18, 2006, 10:18:46 PM: nice pics, overlag. :)

ever go to the MotoGP races???
Title: Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?
Post by: Overlag on October 18, 2006, 10:26:03 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Enduro
nice pics, overlag. :)

ever go to the MotoGP races???

nope, not really a 2 wheel person. Thought about it though. Maybe next season i will get a season pass for brands hatch... i dunno :)
Title: Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?
Post by: xrtoronto on October 19, 2006, 01:39:50 PM: the best time to take a picture is when it's raining cats and dogs, see:

(http://www.theinterpretersfriend.com/misc/humr/ran-ctsndwgs.jpg)
Title: Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?
Post by: Halo on October 19, 2006, 01:44:11 PM: Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?

Rarely. If I had to a lot, I think I'd try one of the water resistant cameras or a water resistant housing (available only for some cameras) rather than risking my dry weather equipment.

Which reminds me of a Nikonos long ago when I discovered how difficult it was to capture color underwater without flash.
Title: Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?
Post by: Enduro on October 19, 2006, 02:37:25 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Overlag
nope, not really a 2 wheel person. Thought about it though. Maybe next season i will get a season pass for brands hatch... i dunno :)

you DO know that there is more action and more lead changes in 2 laps of a MotoGP race than in an entire race in those OTHER series, right? ;) :D
Title: Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?
Post by: Enduro on October 19, 2006, 02:38:41 PM: :lol nice, xrtoronto.
Title: Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?
Post by: Overlag on October 19, 2006, 04:04:51 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Enduro
you DO know that there is more action and more lead changes in 2 laps of a MotoGP race than in an entire race in those OTHER series, right? ;) :D

and? too much of something isnt a good thing.
Title: Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?
Post by: Debonair on October 19, 2006, 04:33:12 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Halo
Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?

Rarely. If I had to a lot, I think I'd try one of the water resistant cameras or a water resistant housing (available only for some cameras) rather than risking my dry weather equipment.

Which reminds me of a Nikonos long ago when I discovered how difficult it was to capture color underwater without flash.

lol i've done that, 25m down & the flash died after one use =
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, but there are more & more relatively inexpensive U/W housings for digital P&S cameras - i think the one for the D50 is still in the stratosphere
Title: Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?
Post by: xrtoronto on October 19, 2006, 04:36:45 PM: A pic of one of Roscoroo's Evil Mercenary squirrels smiling for the camera!

(http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/5282/squirreloy5.jpg)
Title: Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?
Post by: Flatbar on October 19, 2006, 05:03:55 PM: I shot thousands of frames of film and something like 9,000 hours of video during the Valdez spill in all sorts of weather. All the protective gear that's available commercialy is lacking in one thing, IMO, and that's a heat source to keep the air inside the lens and camera body from condensating when you go back indoors.

If you let this condensation form and dry a few times there'll be a film buildup on one or more of the inside lens surfaces where the water dried, this can cause a loss of sharpness and in sevier cases it will limit the amound of light that can get through to the film or CCD.

What we did in Ak was that we made a storage container with a small heat source and placed it in the vestibule at our studios. Raising the temp of the gear slowly prevents condensation from forming.
Title: Photographers: Do you shoot when its raining cats and dogs?
Post by: Overlag on October 19, 2006, 05:17:51 PM: lol

(http://www.ajwebb.eclipse.co.uk/Pictures/S3IS/hmmsquirrel.jpg)

trying to get in my room