I need some faster glass. Basically, my aperture isn’t wide enough for the high shutter speed you need to capture fencing without blur. I had to compensate with ISO 800 and that gives me some nice grainy photos–but without blur. When I get my hands on some faster glass (this means a lens with a bigger aperture, at least f 2.8) the action will be frozen but it’ll be nice and grain-free.
Here’s some cool shots:
Nice curve on that foil
Double touch in foil
A foil curved the wrong way on a touch
Another wrong way curve
Even better
I wonder if this hurt
Hitting with the wrong part of the foil
Simultaneous Attacks
Check out THIS s-curve
Right in the neck
This will hurt in the morning
Leaping attack
Here’s the thread and gallery in the forum, so go check it out. It was a fun little experiment.
Just letting you know I’m working on the site and things might look wonky sometimes.
You know, after choosing to concentrate on photography as my career, it’s like a whole new world opened up that I’d closed off a couple years ago. I mean, I’ve photographed in that time–as my gallery will attest to–and my skills with the camera have gotten better. But I hadn’t experimented in a long, long time. Nathan and I visited my dad’s place last night and played pool and darts with my sister, father, and my father’s girlfriend (who is pretty cool, I might add). Then I started to get ideas and realized while I had brought my camera (lesson learned days ago), I hadn’t brought my tripod or external flash needed for my ideas in such low light to get the crispness in the places where movement blur shouldn’t be.
You know, you want blurry balls but not a blurry background (unless your panning, then you get sharp balls).
Damn, pool is as Freudian as fencing.
Anyrate. Photos like these —
Look cool, but they could look SO much better if I’d set it up correctly.
