MMA Fight photography

[JMK]

The color pics were taken with last month with a Canon EOS XTi, a week after I bought it. It's my first DSLR. The older pics in b&w were taken with a Sony 717.

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I used a 50mm 1.8 lens, and that was a bit of a mistake as there's a 1.6x magnification on the digital Rebels, and that's just too close for most shots. Oh well, live and learn.

[JSPhoto]

I'd think the 50mm would be perfect, but then, yeah right up next to the ring it might be too much. I guess a 28-300 might help a tad, but you'd need flash.

JS

[JMK]

Actually, I should've used the 18-55mm kit lens I was given. Ideally, as close as I was, a 28mm 2.8 would've been my best bet, except I haven't purchased one as of yet.

Flash... I can't say with 100% certainty, but I think it's a distraction, and I'm creative enough to go without it. I definately could've sacrificed some of the speed I used, and would have seeing as how this particular breed of camera tends to under expose.