Busy Saturday... Swimming, BBall, Hockey

OldGuy

Who cares if there is a blizzard.:wink A early, early morning one hour jaunt for a swim meet, return home for a basketball game, and journey out for a evening hockey match. Time flies when you are addicted to shooting sports!

Swimming and BBall shot with D300 and 85mm f1.4, 1/400 @ 2.2, ISO 1250, Auto WB. Hockey shot with D300 and 70-200mm AFS VR f2.8, 1/500 @ 2.8, ISO 1250, Auto WB and some w/TC1.4, 1/400 @ 4.0, ISO 1000, Auto WB.

C&C always welcome. :clap

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And that was my couch potato week-end.

Regards

jerryr

I like #8 and #14 - especially with the ice shooting up!
Great job and so much for a R&R weekend - keep up the good work

- jerryr

sportsshooter06

very busy day, swim photos are just showing heads, where is the competition, the action. They are ok, but look just like snaps to someone who does not know, what you are shooting.

Bball, are you shooting from the side? just slightly behind basket? Were you not able to position yourself, somewhere behind basket? or the back baseline.

Hockey, photos are good, were you somwhere where you had no glass?

If you want to truly make good photos, the first rule is Straighten them.
I admire your desire to run from event to event, what was the need?

Did you just want to fill up your day? Great shooting.

No bashing or disrespect, i love what you did, it is just too early in the morning.

You should straighten, I think?

OldGuy

jerryr wrote:

I like #8 and #14 - especially with the ice shooting up!
Great job and so much for a R&R weekend - keep up the good work

- jerryr

Thanks for the comments, Jerry. I appreciate them.

Regards,
John

OldGuy

sportsshooter06 wrote:

very busy day, swim photos are just showing heads, where is the competition, the action. They are ok, but look just like snaps to someone who does not know, what you are shooting.

Bball, are you shooting from the side? just slightly behind basket? Were you not able to position yourself, somewhere behind basket? or the back baseline.

Hockey, photos are good, were you somwhere where you had no glass?

If you want to truly make good photos, the first rule is Straighten them.
I admire your desire to run from event to event, what was the need?

Did you just want to fill up your day? Great shooting.

No bashing or disrespect, i love what you did, it is just too early in the morning.

You should straighten, I think?

Thanks for your input Sportsshooter06, (do you have a real name? I couldn't find it in your profile)
The swim shots were mostly for the parents. at the end of the season I will make collage posters for the seniors. I am the diving coach for the team — Loy Norrix — and I needed to have my boys at the pool by 7:30am — a long day.

At the BBall game, I had just returned to school with my divers and the ball game was in progress against our cross-town rivals, Kalamazoo Central. I was shooting with my 85 f1.4 (which I used at the swim meet and the only lens I had with me) and it was too long for the space behind the baseline. I normally shoot BBall with my 50 1.8 which is perfect for me at the baseline.

For the hockey shots, I grabbed my 70-200 from home. #11 and #12, were taken thru the glass with my 70-200 AFSVR 2.8. the rest were shot from the upper passage around the rink with a 1.4 converter added to the lens.

Straightening is problematic when shooting action at angles because of perspective. I try to straighten the vertical elements in the images rather than the horizontal. Not always successful.

Regards,
John

GP Images

Great shots. The basketball ones are fine (I agree they could use some straightening) but not sure how you could question the position/angle of them?

OldGuy

GP Images wrote:

Great shots. The basketball ones are fine (I agree they could use some straightening) but not sure how you could question the position/angle of them?

Thanks for your comments, Glynn. Much appreciated.

Regards,