27 December 2004

The gym at Sweetwater High is so dark that I had to set my camera at ISO 1600 to stop the action. After getting a little blur today with programmed autoexposure mode, I decided to use shutter priority later on. This one was 1/60 seconds at f/4.2, with exposure compensation of -0.7 EV using my 70-300 mm lens (at 90 mm focal length). I used the automatic brightness enhancement function available in Nikon's PicturePerfect software to fix up the photo a bit before publishing it here. The great thing is that all these data are starting to make sense to me. Oh, by the way, this is Scott driving to the basket in his team's win against Kearny High School. He didn't make the basket, but was fouled by the defender and made the second of his two free throws.

DWL