Archive for the ‘Sport’ Category
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
From the 9th to the 13th of September I had the pleaseure of working with Duane Hart and the rest of the SportingImages team at the ITU Triathlon World Champs on the Gold Coast. It was a hot couple of days for a Sydney sider like me, but great fun.
My job was to run the remotes at the finish line. I had my main camera (1D MK3/70-200) which triggered 2 remote cameras. The idea is to have 3 of the same shot from different angles.
Everything ran pretty well. There were some hitches with camera location, batteries etc, but generally I was really happy with how it all worked.
I’m going up to Noosa this weekend to do much the same thing, but this time I have arranged mains power for the cameras. this time there’s not worry about batteries.
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
I spent the first weekend of September at Mount Stromlo, Canberra, covering the UCI World Mountain Bike Championships. I drove down with Murray on the Thursday afternoon to get the Accreditations, then we shot Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Last year at the World Cup we are both sick with various ailments, but this time we were good to go. Some great results. As usual, I overcomplicated things, while Murray kept it simple and clean.
I used flash for most of the weekend using the PocketWizard ETTL flash system. My aim was to shoot backlit and to fill the subjects with flash. It worked ok, but even using 2 x 580EX flashes I lacked some punch against the sun. I was pushing it a little however, trying to shoot 1/1600th in high speed sync at f5.6. Generally I just pumped the flashes to full power and went from there.
Here’s the video of the weekend….it’s a bit big, so please be patient while it loads….
I did try something interesting and that was to use a fish eye with the flash on the hot-shoe (at full power), but the flash head was zoomed to 50mm. This gave a tight center of light in the frame and as long as I kept the rider in that spot as they flew past, It looked great. With the fisheye you can use f5 and due to the lenses great hyperfocalqualities, everything was sharp.
Click HEREto see our results.
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
I shot the 2009 Go Natural Multisport yesterday, and for it’s versitility, I used my 28-300. On a day where I had to move quite a bit and carry a variety of set-ups, the 28-300 really excelled.
Image Courtesy of Canon.com.au
I needed to be able to shoot cyclist, Kayakers, and Runners with the smallest set up possible. This lens, and a fish eye, are all I used all day. Some people have been quite harsh on this lens for not being as sharp as others (70-200), but for it’s range and size it does a really great job, and I can’t fault the results. Would I use it for a studio magazine cover…..not likely, but I’m not shooting for that. I’m outdoors lugging my
fat arse backpack up hills.
Even with a hot-shot or wireless flash the lens performed admirably. I’ll definitely use this lens again when shooting adventure races.
Tags: 28-300, adventure, australia, Canon, Flash, lens, Multisport, photography, photos, running, setup, Sport
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
Tags: camera, Canon, ETTL, fill, Flash, Mountain, Mountain Bike, MTB, photography, photos, pocketwizard, Ratio, remote, setup, ST-E2, strobe, test, wizard
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
I had a great week last week with Duane, Lucas and Matt from Sporting Images.Duane has a great attitude towards trying remotes and he let me give some shots a go.
The first shot we tried was from the under-pool port holes. I’d never been down under the Sydney Olympic Aquatic Center, so this was a great thrill.
This shot was not without it’s problems. My camera (1DMK2N) worked ok, but had to shoot at a challenging ISO3200. Duane’s amazing 5DMK2 was shooting at ISO6400 and the shots were amazingly clear, however, I couldn’t stop that set-up from falling asleep after a few minutes. My remote cables are home made and I hadn’t tried them on a 5D MK2, so they were likely the problem.
The second shot was a high shot of the starting blocks. It was a 1DMK2N at ISO3200 in TV Mode at 1/400th Second. The shot is part of an image montage product that Sporting Imagessell. This shot worked well……when I had it focussed correctly (I’ll get to that issue in a later post).
Images are from the 2009 Australian Age Championships. Images for sale through Sporting Images.
Tags: 2009, Age, Aquatic, Australian, Center, Championships, duane, focus, Hart, Olympic, pocket, remote, Sport, sportingimages, swimming, Sydney, underwater, Video, wizard, Workshop
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