Last week a few of us travelled up to the sluice gate at Lough Allen which controls the flow from the lake into the River Shannon. It was a lovely sunny autumnal afternnon and we each got a few images we liked.
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| 1/20th sec f22 ISO100 |
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| 10 multiple exposures processed in-camera |
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Then, as luck would have it, a group of young'uns from a nearby Adventure Course arrives, a kayak was unloaded and one of the lads (Deco) proceeded to entertain us with a display of his talents. culminating in a daredevil drop from the rail of the bridge into the churning water beneath.
I had the 80-200mm f2.8 attached, and remembering how the buffer fills so quickly and the camera stops shooting when on continuous mode, I swithced to DX mode. This means the camera is using less than half of the sensor (smaller files and more images in the buffer) and also the lens behaves like a 120-300mm. I was shooting on manual exposure throughout, constanly re-adjusting fr the strong highlights, at f2.8 to leave the water splashes in focus but not the water around.
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| Multiple exposure blended in Photoshop. It's a little crude because I panned down as he dropped rather than use a wide angle lens fixed on a tripod. |
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