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2.56 - "Solid" 

Donald Spangler from Ballyhoo! performing at the 2017 East Coast Surfing Championship.

Shot from backstage using Nikon D5 w/ 70-200 f2.8, 1/30, f5.6, ISO 1600

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Digging the motion captured here

Thanks. I took a ton of shots trying to get the arms moving but the face still.

I was wondering if you had combined sharp and blurry images to get this... if not, teach me your ways!

Nope, its a single image.

It just took a slow shutter, and a lot of patience. I was also leaning on a rail on the side of the stage to give myself some stability.

I had the camera focus set to continuous focus and kept the focus point on his eye as much as possible (he was moving his head a good bit).

I waited till I could see his hands/ sticks in the air and pressed the shutter. Rinse and repeat for many, many frames.

I didn't know if I actually got anything with the face actually still and the hands visible until I got home and put them on the computer. A bunch were pretty close but not all the way there.