Steckler enjoys an “AV Preeminent” rating by Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, its highest peer rating.
His legal acumen has won him recognition by D Magazine’s “Best Lawyers under 40″ feature in 2002 through 2006, and D Magazine’s “Best Lawyers” in 2007 through 2022, and Thompson Reuters as a “ Texas Super Lawyer” in 2004 through 2022. He is known as an aggressive advocate willing to take innovative approaches to achieve success for his clients. He was a partner at three Dallas-based firms and, most recently, was a shareholder and the head of the General Litigation Section of one of the largest plaintiffs firms in the United States. Today, he has formed a practice which provides unparalleled client service and personal attention to the needs and objectives of its clients.
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He envisioned a law firm where attorneys and employees garnered the trust and full confidence of clients. Steckler founded Steckler LLP after two decades of success as a top litigation lawyer who litigated a variety of commercial, securities, mass tort, products liability, consumer, personal injury, and first party insurance cases. It’s another option for capturing surf shots in a less traditional manner.īelow are some of my favorite speed blur photographs, along with the setting and scenes that lend to capturing them.Bruce W. On the flip-side, shooting at a much slower speed, like 1/4th of a second, will often allow for all sorts of random motion, light and artistic blur to be recorded when photographing surfers or waves in the ocean.
Now, these are all settings that are easily changeable on your camera and while factors of light, aperture and other variables come into play, to freeze an air of John John Florence with all of his facial expressions crisp and sharp, you need the camera shutter to open and close extremely fast to save that moment without any blur. An incredibly small fraction of a second, something to the effect of 1/1000th of one second or even faster. Many of the action photos you see in magazines, advertisements and online - images that display crisp details of everything a photographer is seeing - those images are likely shot at a very fast shutter speed. But when it all comes together, a speed blur or a “lazy shutter” as it’s affectionately referred to by many lensmen, can be one of the coolest ways to capture a moment frozen in time - albeit, at a much slower speed than you would normally otherwise.įor those of you who aren’t as familiar with this type of surf photography, I’ll explain various details throughout the captions below. An unsteady pan, an erratic surfer, panning too fast or not fast enough, anticipating the wrong maneuver or simply having the wrong shutter speed to obtain the look you’re going for are all factors that make this style of shooting anything but a sure thing. I’ve heard it described as a high-risk and high-reward style of shooting and I believe that’s an accurate description. There is no “right” way to shoot these types of photos but the longer you mess around with this technique the more you find what works for you - or equally important, what doesn’t. Few surf photography techniques can be as rewarding and simultaneously frustrating as experimenting with a slowed-down shutter speed.