Harry13

When I was shooting dance back in the day, I found that 1/125 would stop most action. A fast moving hand of foot might blur but jumps were no problem. I needed some depth of field and that 1/125 gave me the best that I could get and still stop the action. Harry PS I was shooting Tri X at that time, often pushed to 800 from it's native 400. I had a secialty shop that wold push it for me. I coiuldn't do it myself because I had really bad water where I lived in rural central Ohio. Harry

PAToGraphy Loc: Portland ME area

Thanks for the info gleaned from your experience. I bet the dance photos were great.

Harry13

"I bet the dance photos were great."

Well, one of 'em made the cover of Dance Magazine and I had shows for over 10 years until I turned the job over to a younger guy who had been chomping at the bit. :-)
Harry

Harry13

I guess that I should add that my dance work was the beginning of my career as a photographer and it's high point as well. I'm 91 now (my dance work was in the '60s and '70s) and these days my focus is on dogs as I field trial Field Dog Stud Book English Pointers (Short hair, long tails, NOT German Shorthairs) and more recently AKC English Cockers. I started with Pointers in the mid '60s and still compete but with a pro trainer/handler as I'm getting too old at 91 to ride a horse. [Handlers, scouts and judges ride horseback in the kind of trials I compete in as opposed to trials where those individyals walk.] These trials are run everywhere in the US from New E to CA and from WI,Mn and the norther praries S to AL, FL and Texas. And everywhere in between. It is truely a national sport with thousands competing. Venues range from a few hundred acres for walking dogs as opposed to horseback dogs on thousands of acres on the northern praries and in Tx and Ok and elsewhere. In OH for example, trials were often held at the 5,000 acre federal/state reserve of Killdeer Plains, some 50 miles N of Columbus. These trials are run on wild grouse and woodcock in SE OH and usually on released quail and pheasant elsewhere in the state.

PAToGraphy Loc: Portland ME area

Thank you, Harry. That is so interesting! 91!! You give me hope and inspiration.