Show us your IS/VR shots

[I-S]

Show us some pictures where you would not have been able to get the shot without IS or VR or whatever the equivalent on your camera system of choice is. Tell us why you couldn't have got this shot without.

Here's mine:

Canon EOS 5D, ISO 1600, 1.3 seconds @ F4, 24-105 @ 37mm.

I didn't have my tripod with me and there wasn't room there to set one up anyway. Bracing against a gate, IS got me down to an absurdly long shutter speed but remaining sharp enough. The lighting of the front of the car is actually from an oncoming car's headlamps, not flash.

 

[hollis_f]

I had just moments to shoot this Barn Owl when it perched on the garden fence. Unfortunately I still had the 2x TC on my 300mm lens - so I was shooting at 600mm in fading light.

Even wide-open (f5.6) and ISO800, I was shooting at 1/30s. That's 5 stops below the 1/1000s the 1/(FLxCF) rule of thumb suggests. A combination of technique, luck and IS were needed to get the shot. Without any one of the three it would have been complete garbage.

 

[AtomicRooster]

ISO 100, Exposure 1/4 sec

ISO 100, Exposure 1/3 sec

ISO 320, Exposure 1/5 sec

All hand held with 16 - 85 VR nikon lens.

 

[markmullen]

Piazza San Carlo by mark_mullen, on Flickr

1/4 Seconds at F5.6 and ISO800, I was travelling light so didn't have my tripod with me nor anywhere to stick a gorillapod down. Rather than detracting from it the blurred walkers add to it IMO.