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As off the wall and poo pooed this will likely be.......
Depending on how committed and prepared to invest in it your are, what about LED Lights?
I have bought some LED Lightbars, the type designed for Vehicles and have been doing some shooting with them. They work very well and leave any " Photo/ Video" light I have seen for dead. Especially on price.
They are of course 12V so no electrical danger if you threw them in the pool and they give great light output. Matter of fact, with their IP 68 rating, You could put them on the bottom of the pool and get some really awesome and different shots.
Never done swimming but I assume you could just light one end of the pool and shoot when the swimmers got to that place.
You can also get the LED house style floods in 12V ( although a bit harder to find) and with a much more diffused output. I picked up 5X 30w of this style a few weeks ago for $22.95 for the bunch delivered. Testing them, they aren't quite 30W but for the price, I'm not arguing.
I have Coupled the bar lights to my Lipo car Jump starter pack which will fit in a large shirt pocket and weights nothing and I can still get in excess of 30min run time off the big bar and the same powering multiple smaller ones.
Probably more trouble and expense than you want to go to on this gig but I'm finding a lot of professional and private uses for these lights so look at them as a very handy resource to have. Been using them to light up the back yard for working at night, lending them to friends to light up partys, Indoor shoots etc.
As for flash being distracting..... really?
Things like this always remind me of a complaint and conversation I had many years ago.
Parent was going nuts that my picture taking was putting her daughter off her performance and distracting. Made quite the scene of course.
When she walked away, a guy who I was quite friendly with came up and asked what the problem was. When I explained, his dead pan reply was " Did the daughter win?
Said it all really.
This guy was a champion in the sport and had been through the ranks for his age growing up doing it. His assertion was that if anyone let any outside influence put them off, they simply weren't concentrating hard enough on what they were doing in the first place and were never going to do any good no matter what.
He said I am sometimes aware of you taking pictures but anything outside that ring I don't allow to distract me from what I'm doing because I'll end up dead if I do.
Asking others with runs on the board and blue ribbons on the wall got exactly the same replys. You don't allow yourself to get distracted by anything.
With apologies to those with a different POV and whom may be offended, I think the concentration/ distraction thing in most sports is a crock.
Golfers that get pissy about noise for one thing make me laugh. So many other sports have 100K screaming fans surrounding them in a stadium going off their tits, waving flags, popping flashes left right and centre, throwing stuff on the field, blowing whistles and sounding horns and they have to concentrate on what they are doing just as much as anyone else. Golfers and others have you believe that they can't concentrate and perform in anything but dead silence. Pussys!
I did competition Shooting. Not too many things where pin point accuracy and concentration is more important than in that sport where 1/2" makes the difference between expert and amateur yet you have 19-49 other people around you blasting away and you have to put that out of your head. You can have flags going up beside your target, targets going up and down, reflections, dust, wind..... And that was what I loved about it the most. The fact that somehow I could put EVERYTHING out of my head, worries, anxiety's, stress, .30 cals 3 ft away and just get in the zone and put it all out your of my head and find a comforting peace amoungst the riot going on around me.
Look at rally driving. Guys hurtling through the bush in night stages, getting lit up like daylight by 100 people dropping flashes in their face as they do 100 MPH through corners, sideways, and you never hear them complaining about people taking flash pictures...... and people think that swimmers thrashing up and down a pool with people screaming at them are going to be off put by -A- camera flash?
C'mon!
Might be the mentality of the sport but it sure as hell doesn't stand up to any sort of reason or logic that's for sure.
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Jul 01, 2017 at 09:32 PM |
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