The neighborhood pool closes this weekend ... so we decided we'd
have one last jump in the pool. I had recently gotten
a Canon 40D camera and my son Dirk was nice enough to allow me to test
the 6.5 frame/second continuous shooting ability. Or as you can
see from the pictures below, Dirk and his twin mirrored in the
calm water! ;-)
Click on the four images below if you want to see the original crop.
After those, there is a "stop-action" animation of the entire 26 frame burst
that is kinda entertaining - slow connections will need a minute
to cache all the images.
Go Jump in the Pool!
Watch in real time and use the controls to play,
step, pause, slow-down, and speed-up the animation.
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We had been at the pool a few days earlier and had seen the calm water,
so I had thought this might be a neat picture to take.
Needless to say, there was only one chance to do it!
Unfortunately, the water was a bit dirty ... but we couldn't
"scoop" it since that would have upset the calmness.
And we were a bit rushed as the Sun was starting to go down to the West.
But Dirk was a good trooper as I lined up the exposure and focus.
Everything was manual (had him stand on the edge and used his toes
for auto-focus) so I just had to press the trigger on the tripod.
Shot with a 17-85 lens (set at 26mm with 1.6x multiplier form the Canon 40D)
at F/8.0, 1/1000 of a second, and ISO 400.
