Tuesday, March 20, 2007

5D Shutter Bump


This photo of NCSU-VT basketball was taken in March 2007 at the ACC Tourney. It is a classic face swipe basketball picture. Unfortunately, the shutter speed was 1/320th instead of 1/5ooth after accidentally changing the shutter on the 5D. I recently switched to Canon and am finding this problemic with the 5D which is really not a sports shooter's camera of choice. The full-frame and CMOS quality, however, allowed me to shoot this image with a 70-200mm f2.8 focused at the down court baseline with a 1.4x giving me a 320th at f4 at 1250 ISO. The frame is considerably cropped. Just shows that being there is half the battle in making good pictures.