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Rusty » Mon Mar 22, 2010 7:25 pm
I can't overemphasize what Suzi said ... she hit it on the head. Shamus is a little guy; get down on the ground as close to his level as you can. As Suzi says, see how much better #1 is compared to the two where you are looking down at him.
You can try panning, but if you can get him coming "at you", or even only at an angle, as you did in the first one, panning is probably not necessary. There is enough light to freeze his motion just with the shutter speed.
If you can crank the shutter speed up high enough, the required f-stop will probably open up enough to throw the background into soft focus. That looks like what happened with these three shots. For what you are attempting, I would not want the lens setting to be greater than f-5.6 and maybe 4 or below.
If your camera has the setting, I would try a "burst setting" to let the shutter fire again and again and again -- as long as you hold the button down. This will not work well with flash but will be OK in a daylight setting.
You did a nice job on these three. (IMHO)
Rusty