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<blockquote data-quote="Moab Man" data-source="post: 421211" data-attributes="member: 11881">Grandpa mentioned that technique is such a big part, and he is right. Some people have hands/bodies of stone combined with good technique and can get away with really slow shutter speed shots. Even if you can't right now, you always want to practice good technique and before long it will become such second nature that before long and without realizing you will start to get slower and slower into what you can hand hold shoot. With this shot I surprised myself at how low I was shooting - 1/250, and it had no motion blur. Now this isn't a particularly slow shutter speed on its face, but when you consider it was a 300mm lens, no stabilization, and a quick off the cuff shot before the target realized there was a large camera lens pointed at her just 12 feet away. With thought, it would not have been difficult to do this shot. But repetitive good technique allowed me to do it without thinking and in a shoot from the hip time crunch. Following the general rule of shutter speed to focal length, the shot should have been done at 1/450+ since it was shot from a DX camera.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Moab Man, post: 421211, member: 11881"] Grandpa mentioned that technique is such a big part, and he is right. Some people have hands/bodies of stone combined with good technique and can get away with really slow shutter speed shots. Even if you can't right now, you always want to practice good technique and before long it will become such second nature that before long and without realizing you will start to get slower and slower into what you can hand hold shoot. With this shot I surprised myself at how low I was shooting - 1/250, and it had no motion blur. Now this isn't a particularly slow shutter speed on its face, but when you consider it was a 300mm lens, no stabilization, and a quick off the cuff shot before the target realized there was a large camera lens pointed at her just 12 feet away. With thought, it would not have been difficult to do this shot. But repetitive good technique allowed me to do it without thinking and in a shoot from the hip time crunch. Following the general rule of shutter speed to focal length, the shot should have been done at 1/450+ since it was shot from a DX camera. [/QUOTE]

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