So hopefully, you’ve been wondering about how when shooting at 1/20 – 1/45 I was stopping the action. This little bull wasn’t holding still, was always on the move. Under those conditions, how do you stop the movement?
Stopping the action is something I talk about alot in my new book Captured in many places in many ways. The most common methods are fast shutter speed (not available in this scene) or working with Peak of Action. That’s simply what I did here. As the Moose raised its head, it would stop at a point and for a heartbeat, hold still with its head raised. That’s when I went click. Regretably, you can’t see here that the top image is not tack sharp and the bottom one is. I only kept the top image for this post, I deleted it from my files.
Is there an issue with both photos I don’t like? Something else I talk about in my book is the subject’s appearance. In this case, the ears are back and that just drives me nuts!
Photos captured by D3x, 200-400VR2 on Lexar UDMA digital film.