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<\/a><\/p>\nThis was, without doubt, the most exciting single picture that I’ve ever taken. I have a mate [who very kindly me leant me his Nikon D300 a few weeks ago – fantastic machine, enough to make me want to abandon the Canon ship on the spot] who likened taking a photo to a golf shot. I like the analogy a lot: the convergence of propicious circumstance, the satisfaction of connecting with the sweetspot… I just really, really wish that I’d cranked up the ISO to 400, which I did later in the day. This is almost fast enough: if you look closely between the ‘e’ and the ‘s’ in the lettering of the advertising hoarding, you can just see the bails flying. Bringing it up to 1\/500 second that I was able to get later in the day would have just sharpened it up.<\/p>\n
Frustratingly, this is the only time I’ve managed to have a backup disaster and delete the original data. For those who are interestied I shot this at 1\/200, F5.6, and on aperture priority at 400mm.<\/p>\n
A work colleague made a very interesting comparison with a shot that appeared on the Beeb<\/a> website [picture 8]. There was a group of professional photographers sitting on the boundary about 20-30 yards to our left, one of whom must have caught this. Interesting to note the difference in talent, kit, and technique \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was taken to the Oval a couple of weeks ago [very kindly at the expense of a vendor] for the England vs South Africa 4th test. I’ve always wondered what the chances were of being turned away at the … Continue reading