Thriathlon and beautiful girl(800x600 pics)

Adrian van Ammers

Thriathlon season has started again. So I had a nice father-son day with Aron, who ended in 2004 in the top 20 of the Dutch competition.
I shot with 828. Last year I did 717 shoots. The 828 is faster but not that fast to catch fast running or biking subjects that easy.
I had the best results by "moving" the cam with the subject with autom. focus. I tried manual focus too, which was not bad either.
The first methode worked best for me.
This 17 year young lovely beauty miss fired the start pistol. I got a big smile from her. In appr. 8 years she will be a doctor if things go well.


Here is the start. These guys - and some brave girls - do the Olympic distance in appr. 2 hours: swimming, biking and running.


Here is Aron after his swim. All concentration.


Two pictures of the running part.






BTW he got a flat tire. :cry First time in the race. This is how disappointment looks like.



For those who came this far some shots of the young lady as a bonus

Peter Dumont

Adrian van Ammers wrote:

Thriathlon season has started again. So I had a nice father-son day with Aron, who ended in 2004 in the top 20 of the Dutch competition.
I shot with 828. Last year I did 717 shoots. The 828 is faster but not that fast to catch fast running or biking subjects that easy.
I had the best results by "moving" the cam with the subject with autom. focus. I tried manual focus too, which was not bad either.

Hello Adrian !

Nice series of your sons triathlon ! It would be nice to compare them to your 717 pictures. The girl's smile was a bit too artificial for my taste.

Bye,
Peter Dumont

Adrian van Ammers

717 shots

Peter Dumont wrote:

Hello Adrian !

Nice series of your sons triathlon ! It would be nice to compare them to your 717 pictures. The girl's smile was a bit too artificial for my taste.

Bye,
Peter Dumont

Hey Peter,
I can assure you she was all flesh and blood But I can see what you mean about the smile. I admired her courage though being only 17 and standing in the middle of all attention.
About 717. Here is the link to my shots of last year. http://adrian.smugmug.com/Sports/33237
And a 717 picture of the running last year. Take also in consideration that I learned some more in PP.

Andy

good onya, adrian - you really do get some fine fine results out of that sony 828 - attributed to your skill and desire to be better, and your eye!

thanks for sharing adrian.

david_h

Excellent pictures of your son in the race, sucks that he got a flat.

I agree with Peter's comment about the girl's smile. She obviously been practicing in the mirror.

Attractive young lady as my doctor? I'm not sure that's a good idea.

Adrian van Ammers

Andy, I like the challenge to get...

andy wrote:

good onya, adrian - you really do get some fine fine results out of that sony 828 - attributed to your skill and desire to be better, and your eye!

thanks for sharing adrian.

the best out of this camera. I will do a post soon with theatre shots with higher ISO and very slow shutter speeds. : Some came out pretty good
Thanks for your master eye! And encouraging words, I really appreciate.

Dee

So sorry about the flat tire
That's a "total bummer" as the kids used to say here for a really bad thing to happen.

Very pretty young lady, with beautiful teeth! :-)

I'll be posting some Long Island windmills for you in a few days.

Adrian van Ammers

Hello David

david_h wrote:

Excellent pictures of your son in the race, sucks that he got a flat.

I agree with Peter's comment about the girl's smile. She obviously been practicing in the mirror.

Attractive young lady as my doctor? I'm not sure that's a good idea.

Haha, yeah the girl's smile is unnatural but what do you know when you are 17 years old and some people crown you as a beauty queen? So in a way she stole my heart with her unnatural smile. I knew that she tried hard to be natural and she knew I knew I gave her my card in case she likes the pictures and I hope she will be a very attractive doctor! There is no law against that
Cheers and thanks for the stop.

Adrian van Ammers

Hi Dee, looking forward to the mills!

Dee wrote:

That's a "total bummer" as the kids used to say here for a really bad thing to happen.

Very pretty young lady, with beautiful teeth! :-)

I'll be posting some Long Island windmills for you in a few days.

I hope I won't miss these. Drop me an email if you want. I'm not that much on dgrin and work still absorbs a lot of my time. The red candy is for sale now in NY Yeah, the young lady was quite an apparence. But still very young and shy. I think she did well.:): It's a very nice group of man and woman sharing their sport. Really very friendly. I will do another shoot coming Sunday. Looking forward to that!