The Best Front-End In The Business
Canon 5D Mark II, 70-200 f/2.8L with 1.4x. 280mm, ISO 800, 1/250 @ f/5.6.
Something a little different today from the Olympics. We were at the Men’s Gold Medal curling game (yay Canada!) and had seats that were nice and close to the ice. The above photo is of Mr Kennedy and Mr Hebert, the best front-end in curling today. What I like most about this photo is the composition and cropping to keep the Olympic logo behind them, and how the logo is right under their feet. It’s always nice to see something like that at the event, take photos, and then find out later during processing it worked!
One other note about the photos I took at the Olympics: manual mode on a camera is awesome. It is very easy to fall into the trap of only using aperture- or shutter-priority mode on the camera, but when you are under fixed lighting conditions manual mode is a must. I did some test shots prior to the actual curling events to lock on my shutter speed, aperture, and ISO, then saved them as “C3” on my dial. I did similar tests for shooting the crowd in the stands and saved them as “C1” on my dial. I could then shoot with complete freedom knowing that the exposure would be exactly the same across all my images. If I changed subjects, a quick flip of the dial meant I had exactly the right settings ready to go.
It made post processing a breeze as well: in almost every case a direct cut-and-paste of exposure settings could be applied to all the images.
Have you ever used manual mode on your camera at a major event? How did it work out for you?
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