The figure of skating
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(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, EF 400mm f2.8, ISO 100, 1/13 sec., f16) Germany's Sarah Hecken spins during her short program.
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(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, EF 400mm f2.8, ISO 200, 1/50 sec., f9) China's Yan Liu spins.
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(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, EF 400mm f2.8, ISO 100, 1/6 sec., f18) Swiss skater Sarah Meier spins through her short program.
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(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, EF 400mm f2.8, ISO 100, 1/5 sec., f22) Hungary's Julia Sebestyen flashes through the frame during her short program.
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(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, EF 400mm f2.8, ISO 800, 1/2000 sec., f2.8) Anastasia Gimazetdinova makes circles and rings on the surface of the ice.
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Jennifer Buchanan / The Herald
(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, EF 70-200mm f2.8 @165mm, ISO 800, 1/2000 sec., f2.8) Canada's Cynthia Phaneuf spins across the Olympics logo.
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(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, EF 400mm f2.8, ISO 800, 1/2000 sec., f2.8) American Mirai Nagasu spins during her short program Tuesday night. Nagasu finished sixth.
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Jennifer Buchanan / The Herald
(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, EF 400mm f2.8, ISO 800, 1/2000 sec., f2.8) American Rachael Flatt performs a jump during her short program Tuesday night. Flatt is currently in fifth place.
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(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, EF 400mm f2.8, ISO 800, 1/2000 sec., f2.8) Yu-Na Kim of Korea performs a jump during the short program Tuesday night. Kim is currently in first place.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 | 1:01 am
After 11 days of Olympic competition, I finally made it to figure skating this evening. I must admit, I'm not a big figure skating fan. My mom used to watch it ALL the time, so I'm familiar with the sport, just not a huge fan. (Sorry Mom.) As far as action is concerned, figure skating don't really rate with soccer or football; two sports I shoot quite frequently, and after about three skaters, I got kind of got bored. The differences in abilities are drastic and good skaters look down right terrible compared with the great ones. In the first groups, you mostly get the “good” skaters. Knowing I wouldn't need stock action photos of these skaters, I began to play with shutter speeds, blurring the skaters as they went through their programs.
I started out with slightly slower speeds and worked my way down to uber-slow speeds.
Eventually, it just got weird, and I ended up with a very strange frame. I kind of like it though. We'll call it arty.
I also started looking for little details during those first groups. I like the little snow circles that the skaters make when they spin.
How about more Olympics logos and rings in your photos?
The really great skaters didn't get the blur treatment, so here are some straight action photos of them.
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