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09-04-2008, 11:56 AM
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| Here's some misc. photo's that I had some trouble with. I was using my 300mm lense and the light was getting limited which was giving me fits. Even with the lowest shutter speed that I dared go down to shooting free hand I still couldn't capture enough light.
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09-04-2008, 01:33 PM
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>Even with the lowest shutter speed that I dared go down to shooting free hand I still couldn't capture enough light.
Hm, what was the lowest shutter speed you used? The picture of Screaming Demon II (my favourite due to the great black columns of exhaust smoke :-) seems to show 1/200 s in its EXIF data.
Attached a shot I made with my new Sony Alpha 700, showing 1/30 s at 200 mm (about the same as your tractor shot).
Of course, the Sony has image stabilization, but smooth panning (and accepting a share of blurred shots :-) can yield nice effects even without that.
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09-05-2008, 04:45 AM
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09-05-2008, 06:16 AM
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Country:  | Good stuff guys! What event is going on in your pics Jim? (other than some vehicles trying to pull an large immovable object).
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09-05-2008, 09:02 AM
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Country:  | Image stabilization lenses are a great thing, if you can afford them. In low light conditions, upping your ISO setting will allow more light in. It's a trade-off sometimes with that as higher ISO can give you more graininess.
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09-05-2008, 10:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Gnomey  Good stuff guys! What event is going on in your pics Jim? (other than some vehicles trying to pull an large immovable object). | It was just the local fair. That particular night was the truck and tractor pulls. They had two tractors powered by allison v12's and two powered by turbojets but they ran last and it was really dark so I couldn't get any decent photo's of them.
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09-05-2008, 04:24 PM
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>Image stabilization lenses are a great thing, if you can afford them.
The nice thing about the Sony SLR bodies is that they feature integral image stabilization so that you can use affordable lenses and still have a stabilized picture.
In fact, I'm using a second-hand vintage Minolta AF lens with my new Sony and am very happy with the results, even in direct comparison to my friend's Nikon D80 with image-stabilized lens (which is a great rig, too).
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