Re: Pictures from a recent Magpul Dynamics Pistol 1 &
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 308LR</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Nice pics, what type of camera and equipment was used ?
I run a canon 20D and look to get shots like these.
I am working on the proper settings but get some blurry and not consistent. </div></div>
I took these pics with a Canon 5DmkII with a 70-200/f2.8-IS lens in AV mode with the f-stop around 2.8-4 with ISO between 200-640 IIRC. I have the safety shift on in case there is too much light and the shutter wants to go past 1/8000. I also have a 20D, and these setting should work for you too. I'm thinking about slowing down the shutter to between 1/1000-1/250 next time to see how much slide motion I can get. With the high shutter speeds 1/2000 + and the shallow depth of field (F2.8-4), I think it gives nice seperation of the shooter from the back ground.
Last class I took some pics of Travis and Chris with their Nighthawks and I had some issues with timing the brass. Just a little tweaking of my flinch and I was getting a lot more brass this time.
It was partly cloudy with a good wind, so exposures will be all over the place. Had a polarizer filter on there to help saturate colors and tame the sky, though with the berms, I think I only got one sky shot. I think almost all the shots were at 200mm- though a lot were cropped afterwards. For web pics you can do some crazy crops off of a 24mp RAW file
. These were all the last day after lunch when they had three shooting stations set up. I usually like to get just up to the 180 arc, but with the students running right at me between stations, I didn't want to risk a AD/ND and catch it. Later pics are of three different stages.
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