young124444
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Hey flashdance,
Thanks for the kind words, is very encouraging, just when i thought i was all alone here ha ha...
Yes, shooting moving children with GXR often push my photography skill to its limit. And yes, on rare occasion when i wanted to freeze a swift fleeting moment of our children, i do miss the flexibility of a zoom and the hypersonic speed AF that SLR can offer. But on the day i gave up SLR, I know what i was trading in. And so i resorted to have a different approach, just do what GXR do best and stop expecting it to be a SLR.... because it is not!
The Initial D series below (D = drag, not drift ...AKA. shutter Drag) was taken with GRD 3 (before i upgrade to A12 28mm). By the way both camera focusing speed is about on par in good light.. may be with GRD3 a hair line faster with lessor glass to move.
My daughter was having a blast on her tricycle doing her F1 laps at the void deck. As she was getting bolder and building up her speed i was struggling to get the exact framing, moment and exposure (lots of back light) i wanted.
So i switch approach, instead of trying to freeze the moment, i started to pan her movement and capturing its flow. And suddenly it felt like I have switch to a totally different camera...
GRD3 come to live with this approach, the instant switching back and forth between manual/Snap and AF eliminated the focus lag, the instant locking of changing exposure in the tricky lighting with the One press M mode settled the exposure, and panning with one stretch out arm (leveraging on the LCD and small form factor) provided a lot more compositional flexibility than i would have with heavier set up.
I may not have freeze the moment for my daughter, but i certainly captured her in action... and this would add more variety to the collection of her childhood memory when she looks back
R0014510small by YoungOoi, on Flickr
R0014517 copy by YoungOoi, on Flickr
Thanks for the kind words, is very encouraging, just when i thought i was all alone here ha ha...
Yes, shooting moving children with GXR often push my photography skill to its limit. And yes, on rare occasion when i wanted to freeze a swift fleeting moment of our children, i do miss the flexibility of a zoom and the hypersonic speed AF that SLR can offer. But on the day i gave up SLR, I know what i was trading in. And so i resorted to have a different approach, just do what GXR do best and stop expecting it to be a SLR.... because it is not!
The Initial D series below (D = drag, not drift ...AKA. shutter Drag) was taken with GRD 3 (before i upgrade to A12 28mm). By the way both camera focusing speed is about on par in good light.. may be with GRD3 a hair line faster with lessor glass to move.
My daughter was having a blast on her tricycle doing her F1 laps at the void deck. As she was getting bolder and building up her speed i was struggling to get the exact framing, moment and exposure (lots of back light) i wanted.
So i switch approach, instead of trying to freeze the moment, i started to pan her movement and capturing its flow. And suddenly it felt like I have switch to a totally different camera...
GRD3 come to live with this approach, the instant switching back and forth between manual/Snap and AF eliminated the focus lag, the instant locking of changing exposure in the tricky lighting with the One press M mode settled the exposure, and panning with one stretch out arm (leveraging on the LCD and small form factor) provided a lot more compositional flexibility than i would have with heavier set up.
I may not have freeze the moment for my daughter, but i certainly captured her in action... and this would add more variety to the collection of her childhood memory when she looks back
R0014510small by YoungOoi, on Flickr
R0014517 copy by YoungOoi, on Flickr
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ha ha Though i wont be as brave to say it is the best, but it certainly best at what it was meant for 
