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Yesterday, I went to Mile 21 along the London Marathon course to shoot my running crew Run Dem Crew. I brought along two cameras – my Canon 5D (with a 50mm, 1.8 lens) I recently bought second-hand and an entry level Canon 1100D (with a 18-55mm, 3.5-5.6 lens,) as I wanted the option to switch between wide angle and more telephoto shooting.  But I hardly used the 1100D in the end – the lighting was tricky with alot of shadowy areas – at one point I even used fill flash – but it didn’t get me the results I wanted.

In terms of settings, I worked in Aperture Priority most of the time, but used the exposure compensation button alot, as I didn’t want the stress of working in Manual Mode. And, as is the case with outdoor photography, the light kept changing, but  I wanted to keep my aperture as large as possible without overexposing the final results so I can get that really shallow Depth of Field I like to have in my pics.  Finally, I converted the pics to black and white as I really wanted to communicate the story of the day, without the distraction of colour. I think it worked  Check out some of my snaps below: