Skaters

[Alex53]

Shot some skaters the other day, I'm not too happy with the results, my shutter speeds were a little slow due to using a polariser, and the little screen made me think it was fine, but it wasnt on closer inspection, so I'll be back with a faster lens

Anyway these are the better ones;

 

[Alex53]

Uhm, why were you shooting at f/13.0 and f/8? Having a faster lens and won't make a difference if your lens has a maximum aperture of f/2.8 or f/8, you're still going to get slow shutter speeds at those apertures?

I assume you were using a flash?

You're right, but I didn't explain it properly.

My cheaper, slower zoom lenses need to be stopped down to f/8 to be at their best optically and the truth is the kit lens is crap wide open. A fast prime will achieve much better sharpness without having to stop down that far. f4 or f5.6 will already be good on my 50mm or 35mm primes.