Went to the Big Apple circus this past weekend -- last day in town and my little girl enjoyed it. :-) Decided to bring the big gun and 85/1.8 just for fun and to try something a little challenging. No flash allowed, and the light was poor and all over the place.
Lessons learned:
Even a really good meter can't handle this crap. Ended up spot metering off the performers and that worked out ok. M mode helped greatly since I could eyeball how much to compensate for what I spot metered off and get it mostly right pretty quickly.
Servo mode AF did much better at grabbing on and tracking small objects -- using single shot I had pictures where the AF sensor was too large for the small subject and focused on the background instead. Seems like servo mode -- at least on this camera -- grabs smaller subjects better. Figured this out pretty quick and 83 out of 93 shots were focused well.
It's better to shoot at higher ISO to retain high shutter speeds than trying to compromise. Shot everything at 1600 or 3200 to keep things fast enough since shutter speeds too slow just ruined everything. A little noise is preferable to that!
A few shots:
Originally posted by madmikess 
. Fantastic series
(Though there are some lengthy discussion threads on how Canon setup the 1Ds2 output so that it looks softer at 100% but retains more detail.. yeah, not entirely clear on that, but the results are what matter I suppose!)
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