I Captured "The Juggler"

It sounds a little like a nemesis to Batman but the juggler is just one of the folks I see nearly every time I lead a workshop through the French Quarter for American Photo Safari. He's in the 500 block of Royal St. and I like to ask my students to switch their mode dials from aperture priority to shutter priority. The purpose is to freeze the motion of the pins or, in this case, the bowling ball as it's juggled.

I put these three shots of the juggler in the post because I shot in burst mode. The camera kept firing as long as I depressed the shutter button which was 4 shots. I like these three. exposure data: 1/2500 @ f/4, ISO 640 in shutter priority using spot metering with the Canon 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens on the EOS 5D Mk2 at 32mm. This was shot in the vertical orientation and cropped down to the 5x7" finished product(s).

This guy actually did juggle a bowling ball along with the two pins. Of interest to me are the two people in the right portion of the image who are oblivious to the act going on behind them. The shutter speed of 1/2500 sec. was enough to capture the juggled items with no blurring. That same shutter speed us not quite enough to do the same for the moving wings of large birds that I so often shoot.