Any site visitor will notice that I have been using a lot of motorcycling photos whenever I am trying to how a photo illustration of the AF responsiveness of any EOS model or with Shutter-priority AE mode. There are a lot of EOS users and other photo enthusiasts alike who have never shot a single photo of a world championship motorcycling event, including national championships in their respective countries. Well, here is something for a change, which was the reason why the motorcycling photos came first on the previous page and I have saved the photos here for the closing chapter of this issue. It has been a while since I have shot any of the locally-held fashion shows, and to top it off, the organizer of this one, decided to use multiple, low-intensity blue-colored spotlights as the main source of illumination. There goes the plan of shooting hand-held, available light photography on this event. I have even brought along ISO 64 Tungsten-balanced color reversal film especially for this event since most of such shows used tungsten lighting as the main light source. Very few use daylight-balanced sources. This blue-colored variety was even rarer. But all was not lost as I made the decision to do the best with what I had with me on that day. With the EF 80-200mm f/2.8L AFD zoom lens, the EOS-3 fitted with PDB-E1 (not keen to detach the PB-E2 from the EOS-1v that was left at home) was adequate for the job at hand. Instead of freezing all the models' movements as per the original plan, creating a sense of motion became the alternative. If tungsten lighting were used, it would have been bright enough for exposures of 1/125 sec. at f/2.8 even for an ISO 64 film. The tungsten film's bluish tendency to reduce the warmer color temperature of 3,200-or 3800-degree Kelvin made the overall photos even bluer than they actually were. Most of them were recorded using shutter speeds of between 1/8 sec. and 1/20 sec. Since the models were moving at a very fast pace - not a problem for the EOS-3 to track but inadequate for the slow shutter speeds to freeze them, the sense of motion recorded in each photo ensured the time spent for that event did not go to waste. Swirling the red scarf (1/8 sec) Models parading the fashions (1/13 sec)     Sense of motion (1/8 sec) Shot at 1/10 sec Shot at 1/8 sec This was shot at 1/13 sec   This was also at 1/13 secs A dash of warmer lights for a change Text and photos by Philip Chong. Copyright 2000 by Canon Marketing (M) Sdn Bhd. << Back to Main . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 .