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      06-08-2011, 09:54 AM   #6
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You were lens-limited. Imagine these with the 70-200mm f/4L IS. You'd have gotten better critical focus on all shots (some are dead on and some are soft) and you wouldn't have needed to crop so much. The nifty-fifty is great for street shots, but sucks for this kind of stuff.

Still, this is a great effort Mark. I really like the second shot, which has the best combination of light, critical focus and action pose.

Notice how your exposure varies quite widely. You needed to either use Manual exposure or adjust them to closer levels in Processing. A longer lens would help with that. Of course the plane may have been moving from forelight to backlight on you, greatly complicating things for you. In that case, I would have selected only those with forelight for posting.

In this situation, with my 7D, I'd probably take 200 to 300 images and then post only two to five. A low panning shot might have been nice and some slower shutter speeds to let the prop spin, etc.

Just ideas for you next opportunity. Keep 'em coming.

Dave
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