Over the Queen’s Birthday long weekend end, I decided to drive to Blayney in western NSW to photograph some wind farms at night. It was going to be cold and the weather forecast said showers. It turned out much worse than that! The wind farms are at 1000m and were totally covered in low cloud. I got nothing, but cold and wet.
Everything worked well; my plans and location scouting on GoogleEarth were good, gear was good…..everything but the weather was on my side. Oh well….better luck next time.
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Blayney Wind Farms
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009Swimming Remotes with Duane at SportingImages…
Monday, April 20th, 2009I 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.
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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).
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Images are from the 2009 Australian Age Championships. Images for sale through Sporting Images.
Photos and article published in Australian Triathlete magazine…
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Australian Swimming Championships Over…
Sunday, March 30th, 2008Well……the swimming is finally over. We didn’t hang around for the team announcement, just got the 1500m and RAN!!!!
Must admit, I was getting a little over the repetitive nature of this shooting. It was great to be at the event, and I really loved it, but I did 5 nights out of 8 and it was getting to me. I guess having to still go to work each day didn’t help. I ‘ve got a week off to regroup and get ready for Ironman. I’m looking forward to that because I get to do remote cameras and shoot some different stuff. I guess the fact that I don’t have to edit the IM makes it better. Post Processing (PP) is the most time consuming process from my point of view. It takes just as long as the event itself and is soooooo repetitive.
Pool Deck Access With The Yellow Vest…
Saturday, March 29th, 2008At the events like the swimming, there’s not too much chance for me to get onto the pool desk. Only the top tier Media (Papers, Getty etc…) get the yellow vests. That is until last night. I was lucky enough to see a spare vest in the media room as asked the event organisers if I could “borrow” it for the night.
