The Pixels in Pete's World

Now that DSLRs are in the hands of more and more 1st-time camera owners, I’ve noticed this question come up a lot. “I’ve tried to photograph my son’s basketball games, but all my pictures are blurry. How do I get better pictures with my Canon EOS Digital Rebel?”

  In the all-important basic lesson about studying motion and shutter speeds, we met at a Milestone Mx—a dirt bike riding track. Stopping action is simply using a fast shutter speed, timing when to release the shutter and picking a peak action moment.   Panning is a little trickier. But Milestone Mx is excellent not [...]

  Our 2nd attempt to see who would toss their cookies first, worked out better because the photo gods smiled on us. For our purposes we didn’t want so much light. With the sun out, even at our lowest ISO setting, the lowest shutter speed we could shoot at was 1/30 sec @ f22. (I [...]

Spinning–Normally, this picture taken at 1/30 sec at f16 would have a whole lot depth-of-field especially since it was shot with a 17mm lens. The idea was to just have my subject Melissa sharp and the background blurred due to the motion of spinning her. For better results? I would use some sort of clamp [...]