Canon 40D, 85.0mm, 1/125s, f/1.8, ISO: 500
Luke Thompson mid back-flip. You can't help be impressed with this. Here are a couple more shots of the same move taken by Thu...
Canon 30D, 45.0mm, 1/200s (left), 1/125s (right), f/2.8, ISO: 640
I can't decide which picture I like best, the top in-close one or the one on the left. What do you reckon? (leave a comment)
Canon 40D, 85.0mm, 1/400s, f/1.8, ISO: 500
This is an interesting experiment. Carl was practicing his kicks and I already have lots of shots of him jumping so I was just relaxing and watching. I had my 85mm prime lens on which is slow to focus but an amazing lens and I thought what-the-heck I'll just take some out of focus shots of his run up and see what happens. They'd be out of focus because I was using the auto-focus which with this lens is too slow for this sort of thing. I'd normally manually pre-focus it. Anyway, I took a shot in the early part of his jump and I really like it. The colour is cool and, while he's out of focus, you can tell who it is and see the intensity on his face.
Canon 40D, 22.0mm, 1/30s, f/4.5, ISO: 1250
Robert Meleisea gets a fair bit of camera attention from me, probably because he's pretty photogenic and he hates me taking his picture so for me I like the challenge. I'm trying to get him used to me so that he'll relax and I can get some "good" images of him in future. I had put on my 10-22mm wide angle lens to take a wide angle photo of everyone working out in the gym and as I got down off the chair I was standing on I poked the camera in his face (only about 2 feet away) at a bit below my hip height and got this image. The slow shutter speed (only 1/30th of a second) has given it an interesting in-focus but slightly blurred effect and the mono-chromatic colour and light reflections in the window complete it.
