Comments on: How Did He Shoot That?

By: JCarsonDay

JCarsonDay — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:50:10 +0000

this is incredible. I love the way this article teaches the basics of how he accomplished feat. Great explination.

By: Arizona Wedding Photography

Arizona Wedding Photography — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:01:04 +0000

Wow, that is amazing! Gotta love the transmission of images instantaneously to the laptop! Don’t forget to wash the chlorine off after a days work, that would probably ruin the casing. Cool article, thanks!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:07:48 +0000

Wolfgang – I know this isn’t the best place for this question, but I can’t find any other way to contact you.

Can you explain the photo, credited to you, located at http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/fi les/2008/11/track-guard-300.jpg? The caption reads “A German police officer guards the railway track in Lueneburg where a train transporting Castor nuclear waste containers will travel later in the night to the northern German town of Dannenberg, November 9, 2008. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay”

But clearly, the photograph is not of a German police officer, but of a model train track with a plastic figure.

I’m curious about the story behind this story…

By: Zhou Hao

Zhou Hao — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:25:12 +0000

Hello,Wolfgang!I’m Zhou Hao,a volunteer in the triathlon venue. I worked in the photo workroom.It’s my pleasure to meet you.Hope you have a good time in Beijing!

By: Wolfgang Rattay

Wolfgang Rattay — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:36:04 +0000

We are talking about my “curly-wurly pictures” of synchronized diving, I guess. If so: it has been taken with a hand-held 400mm lens with a 1/15 of a second shutter speed on 200 ASA at f8 or so. Hope that helps. Cheers Wolfgang

By: Francisco Campos

Francisco Campos — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:25:20 +0000

Hello:

Thank you for these exelentes advices(councils). I am doing a special magazine on photography of alimpiadas and need the technical specifications of since(as,like) there was taken the photography that has this legend:
Nicholas Robinson-Baker and Benjamin Swain of Britain compete in the men’s synchronised 3m springboard diving end(final) at the National Aquatics Center during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games August 13, 2008. Great Agradecere his(her,your) collaboration.

Gracias.

By: ichh

ichh — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:05:28 +0000

Awesome! i’ve never seen this bef.
http://www.sport-tips.org

By: Hamad Mohammed

Hamad Mohammed — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:41:39 +0000

Wahoo wolfgang .. thats a cool way. i have been thinking in investing in underwater housing… and now i will for sure invest in one.
cool
Hamad

By: Gary Smith

Gary Smith — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:35:45 +0000

Fantastic article. Very insightful, thanks for making my day

By: Wolfgang Rattay

Wolfgang Rattay — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:09:11 +0000

Hi James,
I am more than happy to clarify this.
As per earlier, the Canon transmitter can not be used in wireless mode.
Due to the density of water – no matter if it is just two inch deep – wireless transmission quits working. The unit has to be used in wire-mode in order to work from the pool.
The other big issue to be solved with Canon’s Mark 2 is the firewire signal that comes from the camera. Unfortunately fireware does not travel over more than approx. 1.2m of cable length. Therefore the unit that “translates” firewire into normal “LAN-language” has to stay close to the camera. In my underwater setup a 0.5m long custom-made waterproof firewire cable goes from the camera housing to the second housing that contains Canon’s WFTE-1 transmission unit. The transferred image data is then filed over the second cable – the red one in the picture – to the ftp server. Previously mentioned – it is a specially treated regular CAT-5-LAN cable. Therefore we can view, acquire and edit the images from underwater within seconds after they have been taken. Cheers Wolfgang