kirkrsnyder wrote:
I was having the issue where if I dropped the exposure compensation, my camera would not be able to shoot at a high enough shutter speed to expose the photo properly. Shooting ISO100 and my shutter speed 1/4000 (max), the highest f stop I could get was f/8-9 and that wasn\'t enough to get good blur in the background. I always had more than enough light so the ND filter let me increase my aperture
Filters are going to cut your light by some amount (same as dropping EC). A CPL for example can reduce it from approx 1-2 stops. This can have a real negative effect on shutter speed which is usually a very important element for sports action photography. As for SS @4000, I would try shooting at SS 2000 which is a full stop down which allows your F-stop to go to 5.6 providing some level of bokeh (blur) and it\'s likely to be fast enough for Frisbee. Adding a CPL to this scenario would drop it further to 1000 or less and to get back up to 2000 the f-stop would have to be moved to 4.0. F/4 provides even better blur but your DOF becomes quite shallow.
In photography, everything is about compromise. IMHO, forget the filter when shooting sports action.
JMTC
Matt
May 08, 2014 at 07:17 AM
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