"Juliet's Window"
Today's picture is a follow-up to yesterday's Six Windows, 67th Street - which I took on Sunday - and is a close up of the bottom left window from that image: It was shot the following night.
Aside from the photo itself, which I really like, the other cool thing about it is how it was shot. I was standing about 5' from the curb on East 67th Street, which is not really remarkable. Traffic at 7 pm that night was pretty light. But that I was able to shoot a tack-sharp image, handheld, at 1/4 second (using an ISO of 1000, and at 55mm on my 24 - 105mm zoom) is amazing - thanks to the image stabilizer in the lens. For those who don't understand what the significance of that is, the normal rule of thumb when shooting handheld is that your shutter speed should be equal to, or faster than, the length of your lens, when expressed as a fraction. So in this case I should have been shooting at 1/55th of a second or quicker, if I wanted a blur-free picture - a difference of nearly four stops!
I've never had an image stabilized lens before. And I never had an opportunity to even try one, until purchasing this lens in November, but I will never buy another lens without it!
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Camera Data
Canon
Canon EOS 5D
1/4 second
F/4.0
58 mm
1000
Mar 7, 2011, 7:06:44 PM
Adobe Photoshop CS Windows
116mm
Canon EOS 5D
1/4 second
F/4.0
58 mm
1000
Mar 7, 2011, 7:06:44 PM
Adobe Photoshop CS Windows
116mm
