The Slide (Part II, Color Ed.)

This is 'The Slide' a fixture at a park I and a companion occasionally

visit with camera in summer on very hot days, and stop to watch the

parents delight at their sons and daughters jumping down the HUGE

slide, with kiddies' gasps, giggles and squeals. Your ratings, critiques

and remarks are invited and most welcome. If you rate harshly, very

critically, or wish to post a remark, please submit a helpful and

constructive comment; please share your photographic knowledge to

help improve my photography. Thanks! Enjoy! John

Thanks for such kind words.

john

John (Crosley)

Michael Northrop

Pardon me for misspelling your name.  Removal of the editing function has prevented me from correcting it in my original post, as I returned after 'editing' time had expired.

john

John (Crosley)

Thank you so much for a wonderful, generous, and heartwarming comment.

john

John (Crosley)

John, Great color, I like how you framed her in the V of the green. 

So cute:)

Very well composed.

But when you're shooting to get a somewhat 'plain' background and islolate a subject when they are dropping at near the speed of a falling object, at 1/80th of a second, with a telephoto from a distance at f 3.5, there is an element of chance.

You get some and then some the child is bunched with others and there is no good shot at all and a lot of discards.  You may end up shooting for half an hour or more and only get one good subject and maybe only one good or usable shot; maybe nothing at all.

It was intentional to frame with a 'V' but the girt had to 'hit the 'V' that I was aiming at and with her gestures intact.

In that I preplanned, but I also was lucky.  There were many other places she could have gone, and did in other trips down the slide.

Finally the slide is very big, the kids have to climb, they pay for each slide down, money is scarce and truly photogenic kids who slide alone and can be isolated like this are somewhat rare (they often go in groups, or get stalled and overcome by others or interact).

So, patience pays off.

The result looks so easy.

It is and it isn't.

Your choice.

Thanks for a good, meaty comment, even if you didn't know how meaty it was.

john

John (Crosley)

Lots of tries were made for good composition.

There also were lots of misses. (failures, not young girls).

This finally was the one that worked.

Whew.

Sometimes for something so simple looking, you have to work pretty hard (but it's a labor of love.)

Best to you.

john

John (Crosley)

Tony,

The 'edit' function has been disabled, so I cannot correct the wrong shutter speed shown above.  It is 1/800th of a second or 1/850th of a second, not 1/80th of a second, which should be obvious to the more experienced photographers as an error.

Please excuse the error; before the editing function was disabled, I could read, review, and fix such errors without an additional comment.

john

John (Crosley)