Image © Jeff Chevrier

Same setup as before, I really debated shooting looser with a 300mm f2.8 vs. the 400mm for much of the Tennis. In the end, the 400mm convinced me, as I would crop-in on most 300mm shots I shot the day before — so why not shoot tighter to begin with? Guess you get a higher percentage of good images including the ball / racquet etc shooting looser as it is easier with the 300mm but if you get a good sports shot, you want it nice and tight with less distracting background etc.. so I shot the 400mm mostly.. (2000-3200 ISO, 1000th sec. f2.8)

Image © Jeff Chevrier

Shooting Tennis last week at the Rogers Cup keeps me sharp as things happen rapidly in pro-sports and I love to shoot tight so I brought a 400mm f2.8 lens and waited for Nadal to do his signature fist pump after a big point in a night game. This image was shot on a Nikon D3s at 2000 ISO, 1000th sec. f2.8. Amazing testimony as to just how good the pro DSLR’s have become in low-light! I used to shoot a lot of sports, it is nice to get back in the saddle again!

Image © Jeff Chevrier

Sometimes, someone comes along and completes your composition if you are in the right place at the right time. Here, a man oblivious to me talking on his phone walked past this industrial scene and filled-in the gap between the trees creating an inverse triangle effect compositionally. Sounds complicated..., but the truth is —I just like the moment. Leica M8.2, 50mm Summicron-M, 160 ISO, 1/25 sec. f/11.

Image © Jeff Chevrier

Sometimes we overlook the boring, the everyday as we pass it by in our daily lives. I have written about this before — about my assertion that it is important to carry a small camera with you in your day to day more and more so that you can observe and capture more simple images. This image is nothing to brag about, but it has balance and simplicity to it I feel, how the shadow of the building reveals a simple triangle of green grass adorned with a solitary late-season Dandelion in June. I made this image out front of Photocreative, on my way in to work today with a Leica and 50mm Summicron-M, Sunny 16 Rule...1/250 sec f/11, ISO 160.

Image © Craig Brown

Another great waterfall image by Photocreative customer Craig Brown! Again at Albion Falls in Hamilton (area), this image was made earlier this month on Craig’s Canon EOS 5D Mark II w/ EF 24-105mm lens, 100 ISO, 0.5 seconds at F/22. He spot-metered the image for correct exposure.