David Ashdown's sports picture diary: Beijing Olympics - Rebecca Adlington
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The idea was to try to get some sense of movement into the picture, normal wisdom would say the faster the shutter speed the better, I hand hold the 500mm most photographers use a mono-pod, but I can't stand them it's so much easer when I have to put the lens down and pick up my other camera, mono-pods just get in the way.
The Nikon D3 is able to take nine frames a second but if I was to do that most of the pictures would be a lot of water and not much else, so I try and time the moment the swimmer comes out of the water, and take a couple of pictures each time.
Picture taken on a Nikon D3 at 1/30 second with a 500mm lens and 1.7 tele-converter making the lens 850mm at F9.0
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